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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1870
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ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 397

of the counties, not less than fifteen days before
the commencement of each term of the Court at
which jurors are required to attend, in the pres-
ence of such practising members of the bar of said

 

Court as shall think proper to attend, notice of the ,
time and place having been first given to said Bar
through the Criers of said Courts to proceed to
select from the lists last finished by the Clerks of
the County Commissioners, provided for in the
first Section of this Act, and from the poll-books
of the several election districts of said counties,
that shall be returned and filed in the Clerk's
office of said Courts after any general election that
may be last held previously to such selection, a
panel to consist of the names of two hundred per-
sons in the several counties of Baltimore, Wash-
ington, Montgomery, Allegany, Carroll, Freder-
ick, Anne Arundel, Prince George, Harford, Cecil,

Select jurors.

Dorchester, and of one hundred and fifty persons
in the several counties of Howard, Worcester,
Somerset, Charles, Calvert, St. Mary's, Kent,
Queen Anne's, Caroline and Talbot, to be fairly
and impartially selected of the age aforesaid by
the said Judges, with special reference to the
intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such per-
sons, and without the least reference to their polit-
ical opinion ; and of the names of such persons,
when so selected, a list shall be made, and a cer-
tificate thereto appended by the said Judges, that
the said list of names has been duly selected in
conformity with and according to the spirit and
intent of this Act, and which said lists and certifi-
cates shall be filed with the Clerks of the said
Courts, and by them preserved as other proceed-
ings of the said Courts are kept.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That when said list of names, selected
as directed in the preceding section is made and
certified as therein provided for, immediately there-

Number of
jurors.

upon the said Judges of the said respective Courts,
in the presence of the members of the bar, as afore-
said, and such other persons as may think proper
to be present, shall cause all the names selected
and placed on the list, as aforesaid, to be legibly
written upon ballots, which shall be of equal size
and of the same color and appearance, and shall
be closely rolled or folded, and in each of the

Judges to cer-
tify.

 

 

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