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JURIES. [ART. 50.

Lists of white
taxable males.

and complete list of the white male taxable inhabit-
ants or residents of said county, whose names appear
on the tax books of said county, and who are not
known to said clerk, to be under the age of twenty-
five years, nor above the age of sixty-five years, and
to which said list so to be made and filed, the said
clerks respectively shall append a certificate that
said list is fully and fairly made, and for making
such list, the said clerk shall receive such compen-
sation as the county commissioners may deem right
and proper, and for failure to perform the duty
hereby imposed, the said clerks to the said com mis-

Penalty.

sioners shall forfeit and pay a fine to the state of not
less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one
thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court, to be
recovered by indictment as for a misdemeanor, and
he shall be thenceforth wholly incapable of holding
or exercising the duties of the said clerk to the
county commissioners.

Ibid, s 2.
Duties of
judges of
circuit courts.

20. It shall be the duty of the judges of the
circuit courts for each of the counties within the
period of one month of, and not less than fifteen
days before the commencement of each and every
term of said court thereafter, at which juries are
required to attend, in the presence of such of the
practicing members of the bar of said court as shall
think proper to attend, notice of the time and place
having been first given to said bar through the criers

Selection from
lists.

of said courts, to proceed to select from the lists last
furnished by the clerks of the county commissioners
provided for in the first section of this act, and from
the poll books of the several election districts' of
said counties, that shall be returned and filed in the
clerk's office of said court, after any general election
that may be last held previous to such selection, a

Panel.

panel to consist of the names of five hundred persons
in the several counties of Allegany, Washington,
Frederick, Carroll and Baltimore, of two hundred
persons in the several counties of Montgomery, Anne
Arundel, Prince George's, Harford, Cecil, Dorches-