EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1904.

CHAPTER 184.

AN ACT to provide for the selecting, drawing and sum-

moning of jurors for Talbot County.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of

Providing for

Talbot County to make out and file with the Clerk of the

selecting,

drawing and

Circuit Court for said county not less than twenty days before

summoning

the third Monday in January, in each and every year, a full

jurors.

and complete list of all the male taxable residents of said

county whose names appear on the tax books thereof, and who

are not known to said Treasurer to be under the age of twen-

ty-five years, to which list, so to be made and filed, he shall

append a certificate that said list is fully and fairly made, and

for said list shall receive such compensation as the County

Commissioners of said county shall deem right and proper,

not exceeding twenty-five dollars for any one list so made out;

and for wilful failure or refusal to perform the duty hereby

imposed, the said Treasurer shall forfeit and pay to the State

a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one

thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court, to be recovered

by indictment as for a misdemeanor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

Judges or Judge of the Circuit Court for Talbot County, not

County Treas-

less than fifteen days before the commencement of each term

urer to fur-
nish list.

of said court, at which jurors are required to attend, in pres-

ence of said practicing members of the bar of said court as

shall think proper to attend, notice of the time and place having

first been given to said bar through the crier of said court, to

proceed to select from the list last furnished by the County

Treasurer as provided in Section 1 of this Act, and from the

poll books of the several election districts of this county, which

shall have been returned to the Supervisors of Election for

Talbot County, or other officer or officers entitled to the cus-

tody of the same, after any general election last held, a panel

to consist of one hundred and fifty citizens of said county, to

be fairly and impartially selected, with special reference to the

intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such persons, and without

the least reference to their political opinions, which said one