1636 ARTICLE 6.

hereby continued until changed or repealed respectively by the General
Assembly of Maryland or the Commissioners of Hillsborough.

1914, ch. 731, sec. 182M.

339. All officers provided for or named in the Charter of Hillsborough
or any amendments thereto, as it now stands before the passage of this
Act, whether by election or appointment, shall continue to hold, exercise
and discharge the duties of their respective offices until their successors
shall be duly qualified and nothing contained in this Act shall be con-
strued to interfere with the continuity of the terms of or tenure of said
officers; nor shall the reappointment or re-election of any of said officers
be necessary in order to secure the said continuity of their said terms
and tenures of office unless otherwise provided in this Act.

1914, ch. 731, sec. 182N.

340. Any suit, action, or proceeding now pending shall not abate by
reason of the passage of this Act.

1914, ch. 731, sec. 182-O.

341. Each section of this Act and every part of each section are hereby
declared to be independent sections, and the holding of any section or
sections or part or parts thereof to be void, ineffective or unconstitutional
for any cause shall not. be deemed to affect any other section or part
thereof.

JURORS.

1890, ch. 28, sec. 1.

342. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the County Commissioners of
Caroline County, to make out and file with the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for said county between the fifteenth day of May and the first day of June
next ensuing, and every second year thereafter, a full and complete list,
alphabetically arranged in the order of 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 the county commissioners to
be under the age of twenty-five years; and to said list so to be made
and filed the said clek of the county commissioners shall append a certifi-
cate that said list is fully and fairly made, and for making such list the
clerk shall receive such compensation as the county commissioners shall
deem right and proper, and for failure to perform the duty hereby im-
posed the said clerk of the county commissioners shall forfeit and pay to
the State a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand
dollars, in the discretion of the court, to be recovered by indictment as
for a misdemeanor and shall be thenceforth incapable of holding position
of clerk to county commissioners.

1890, ch. 28, sec. 2.

343. It shall be the duty of the judges of the Circuit Court for said
county or any one of them, not less than fifteen days before the beginning