HOWARD COUNTY. 3091

1918, ch. 238, sec. 5.

197. The fences to be made or kept in repair shall be at least four
feet high, and shall be sufficiently close to prevent hogs from pressing
through same; provided, said fence be not within five miles from the City
of Baltimore.

1918, ch. 238, sec. 6.

198. The landowners summoned under Section 196 shall be allowed
the same per diem as witnesses before a justice of the peace for each day
they may be engaged in the performance of their duties.

FISH.

(All local fish laws were repealed by ch. 471, 1929. See 1929 Supplement to Anno-
tated Code, Art. 39.)

JURORS.

1900, ch. 121. 1910, ch. 5 (p. 903).

199. In Howard County there shall be procured by the Clerk of the
Circuit Court a jury box of convenient size, which shall be divided into
as many compartments as there may, from time to time, be election dis-
tricts in said county, and which compartments shall be numbered to cor-
respond with the districts of the county; that when the names of the
persons selected by the Judges of the Circuit Court for said county, or
either of them, in the manner prescribed in Article 51 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Juries," immediately thereupon the Judge
or Judges of said Court, in the presence of the members of the bar and
such other persons as may attend, of the said names so selected, shall
select and appoint one, who shall be foreman of the Grand Jury, and
shall cause all the names selected, except the name of the foreman, to be
placed by said Judge, or either of them, in said compartments of said
box, respectively, which bear the numbers of the districts where the per-
sons so selected respectively reside; and it shall be the duty of said Judges,
or either of them, when selecting the panel of one hundred and fifty per-
sons, as provided for in section seven of Article 51 of the Code of Public
General Laws, to distribute the names of the persons on said panel as
nearly equal as may be possible among said compartments, and the said
Judge or Judges, in addition to the foreman so selected, shall draw in all
forty-seven names, and from all the said compartments an equal number
of names; provided, that after the foreman has been selected the district
of his residence shall be carefully noted, and at said drawing one less name
shall be drawn from the compartment representing the district in which
he resides; and if the foreman so selected should die, or for any other
cause be excused by the Court, the Judge or Judges, after drawing an-
other name from the compartment representing the district in which the
foreman originally selected and so dead or excused resided, may select and