EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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of twenty-five and seventy years, to be selected by the said

jury commissioners with special reference to the intelligence,

sobriety and integrity of such persons and without the least

reference to their political opinions ; such persons so selected

as jurors shall all be taxpayers and be able to read and write

the English language, and of the names of such persons so

selected a list shall be made and a copy of such list transmitted

by such jury commissioners under their hands and seals to the

Judges of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, which

list shall be signed by said Judges, or by one of them receiving

the same, to be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of

Prince George's County, so by him preserved as other pro-

ceedings of the court are preserved. And the said jury com-

missioners shall each of them receive a per diem of five dollars

Compensation

for each clay they are actually engaged in the performance of

per diem.

the duties hereby imposed upon them, said compensation to be

paid by the County Commissioners of Prince George's County

upon an order signed by one of the Judges of the Circuit Court

for that county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Section 178 of Article 17

Conflicting

of the Code of Public Local Laws be and the same is hereby

section re-

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

pealed.

178. When the list of names selected as above prescribed

in Section 177A of said Article, is made and certified to the

Drawing jury.

Judge or Judges of the Circuit Court, the said Judge or

Judges in the presence of the members of the bar and such

other persons as may think proper to be present, shall cause

all the names selected and placed on the list to be legibly writ-

ten upon ballots, which shall be of equal size and of the same

color and appearance, and shall be closely rolled or folded and

placed by the said Judge with his own hands, immediately be-

fore the drawing provided for by law, into a cubiform box,

with a sliding top,of the square of eight inches, to be procured

for that purpose by the Clerk of said court under direction of

said Judges, and after so depositing said ballots the said box

shall be closed, and the said Judge shall then cause the Clerk

or one of his deputies, whom the said Judge shall designate,

neither the one or the other who may be so required to act

to be present at the writing, rolling and folding and depositing

said ballots into the box, as herein directed, to appear before

him, and then and there, in the presence of the said Judge and

such other persons as may choose to be present, after well and

thoroughly shaking said box so that the ballots be well mixed,

to draw from said box through such an opening or aperture