BALTIMORE CITY. 1119

JURORS.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 601. 1860, ch. 308. 1867, ch. 401, sec. 4. 1882, ch. 67.
1884, ch. 460. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 583.

602. The Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, or a ma-
jority of them, shall meet in some one of the courtrooms of the City of
Baltimore on such days as the said Judges, or a majority of them, shall
appoint, in the month of April in each year, and shall on such days of
meeting, select fairly and impartially, and by the exercise of their best
judgment, the names of seven hundred and fifty persons, or thereabouts,
qualified under the laws of this State to be grand and petit jurors in the
City of Baltimore. They shall cause the names of the persons so selected
to be entered in a proper book, and shall verify the list so made up by
their certificate and signatures. The said book containing the said list
shall be placed in the custody of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Bal-
timore City.

Clare v. State. 30 Md. 163. Avirett v. State, 76 Md. 535. State v. Keating, 85
Md. 188.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 602. 1860. ch. 308. 1882, ch. 67. 1884, ch. 450.
P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 584.

603. In order to assist the said Judges in making out the list of jurors
aforesaid, the City Collector of the City of Baltimore, shall, before the
first day of February in each and every year, lodge with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, for the use of said Judges, a certified
list of so many of the taxable male inhabitants, resident in the said city,

as he may have been directed to furnish by the order of said Judges, or
a majority of them, setting out their names and places or residence, so
far as the same may be ascertained; and the said Collector shall receive
for such service a compensation to be fixed by said Judges, and he shall
be paid as jurors are paid.

1860, ch. 308. 1882, ch. 67. 1884, ch. 450. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 585.

604. The said list of persons, qualified under the laws of this State
to be grand and petit jurors in the City of Baltimore, having been pre-
pared as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said Judges of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City, or a majority of them, to meet in each and
every year in some one of the courtrooms of the City of Baltimore, on one

or more days to be appointed by them, before the beginning of each regu-
lar term of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, which said meeting, or the
last of which said appointed meetings shall be at least ten days before the
beginning of each of said terms, and to select from said list the names of
twenty-three persons, who shall constitute and be the grand jurors for the

City of Baltimore for the ensuing term of said Criminal Court of Balti-
more; the list of grand jurors so selected shall be attested by the signa-
tures of the Judges selecting the same, and be given forthwith to the
Sheriff of Baltimore City, who shall immediately summon the persons

so selected, to serve as grand jurors for the City of Baltimore at the en-
suing term of the Criminal Court of Baltimore. If any of the grand