1584 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 815]
"Cecil County," sub-title "Circuit Court Jurors," to read as
follows:
410. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the County Com-
missioners of Cecil County to make out and file with the clerk
of the Circuit Court for said county, between the fifteenth day
of March and the first day of June, in each year, a full and
complete list, alphabetically arranged in the order of the election
districts, of the taxable male residents of said county whose
names appear on the tax books thereof, and who are not known
to the said clerk of said county commissioners to be under the
age of twenty-five years; and to said list, so to be made and
filed, the said clerk of the said county commissioners shall
append a certificate that said list is fully and fairly made, and
for the making of such list the said clerk shall receive such
compensation as the said county commissioners shall deem right
and proper, and for failure to perform the duty hereby imposed
the said clerk of the county commissioners shall forfeit and
pay to the State of Maryland a fine of not less than five hun-
dred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, in the discre-
tion of the court, to be recovered by indictment as for a misde-
meanor and shall be thenceforth incapable of holding the posi-
tion of clerk of said county commissioners.
411. It shall be the duty of the judges, or a judge, of the
Circuit Court for Cecil County, not less than fifteen days before
the commencement of each term of said court, at which jurors
are required to attend, in the presence of such practicing mem-
bers of the Bar of said county as shall think proper to attend,
notice of the time and place having been first given to said bar,
through the crier of said court, to proceed to select from the list
last furnished by the clerk of the County Commissioners as pro-
vided in section 410 of this act, and from the poll books of the
several election districts of said county, which shall have been
returned and filed in the clerk's office of the Circuit Court for
Cecil County after any general election last held, a panel to
consist of two hundred (200) 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 two
hundred citizens shall be selected as to their respective numbers
from the respective election districts of said county, as follows:
From the First Election District, twenty-five; from the Second
Election District, twenty-five; from the Third Election Dis-
trict, thirty; from the Fourth Election District, twenty-two;
from the Fifth Election District, twenty-five; from the Sixth
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