SOMERSET COUNTY. 4435

1890, ch. 627, sec. 1.

208. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the county commissioners of
Worcester and Somerset counties, to make out and file with the clerks of
the circuit courts for said counties, not less than twenty days before the
second regular terms of said courts, after each and every general election
held hereafter, a fair and complete list of the male taxables or residents
of said counties whose names appear on the tax-books thereof, and who are
not known to said clerks to be under the age of twenty-five years; and to
said list so to be made and filed, the clerks shall append a certificate that
said list is fully and fairly made; and for making such lists the said clerks
shall receive such compensation as the county commissioners shall deem
right and proper, and for failure to perform the duty hereby imposed, the
said clerks shall forfeit and pay the State a fine not less than five hun-
dred nor more than one thousand dollars in the discretion of the court,
to be recovered by indictment as for a misdemeanor, and shall be thence-
forth incapable of holding position as clerks to county commissioners.

1890, ch. 627, sec. 2.

209. It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit courts for said
counties, not less than fifteen days before the beginning of each term of
the court at which jurors are required to attend, in the presence of such
members of the bars of said courts as shall attend, notice of the time and
place having been given to said bar through the clerks of said courts, to
proceed to select from the list furnished by the clerks of said counties and
from the poll-books of the several election districts of said counties that
shall be returned and filed in the clerks' office of said courts after any
general election last held, a panel that shall consist of the names of two
hundred persons in said counties fairly and impartially selected, of the
age aforesaid, by the judges, out of the election districts of said counties
in proportion to the inhabitants or residents of each district, with special
reference to the intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such person and
without the least reference to political opinion; and of the names of such
persons so selected, a list shall be made and a certificate appended thereto
by said judges, that the said list of names has been duly selected in con-
formity with and according to the spirit of this act; and the said list and
certificate shall be filed with the clerks of said courts and by them pre-
served as other proceedings of the court are kept.

1890, ch. 627, sec. 3.

210. When said list of names selected as directed in the preceding
sections is made and certified as herein provided for, immediately there-
upon the judges of said courts in the presence of the members of the bar
as aforesaid, and such other persons who may attend, shall cause all the
names selected and placed on the list as aforesaid, to be legibly written
on ballots of equal size and of same color and appearance, which shall be
closely folded and placed by said judges with their own hands, immedi-
ately before the drawing herein provided for, into a cubiform box of the