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Supplement to the Maryland Code, Containing the Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Session of 1870
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ART. 50.] JURIES.

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ond regular term of said courts after each and every
general' election held thereafter, a fair and complete

 

list of the white male taxable inhabitants 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, and to which
said lists 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 compensation as the county
commissioners shall deem right and proper; and for
failure to perform the duty hereby imposed, the said

Clerks of coun-
ty commission-
ers to make out
list of white
taxable males.

clerk' to said commissioners 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 mis-
demeanor, and he shall be thenceforth wholly incapa-
ble of holding or exercising the duties of the said
clerk to the county commissioners.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

Penalty.

1870, c. 220 repeals 1867, c. 329, sec. 3 [Sup. 1861-7, p. 137] and 1868, c. 316, sec. 2
[Sup. 1868, p. 121] and re-enacts the same sections with amendments as follows:

20. It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit
courts for each of the counties, not less than fifteen
days before the commencement of each term of the
court at which jurors are required to attend, in the
presence of such practising 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

1870, c. 220.

through the criers of said courts to proceed to select
from the lists last finished by the clerks of the county
commissioners, provided for in the first section of this
act, [Supra sec. 19] and from the poll-books of the seve-
ral election districts of said counties, that shall be re-
turned and filed in the clerk's office of said courts after
any general election that may be last held previously to

Judges of cir-
cuit courts to
select from
lists.

such selection, a panel to consist of the names of two
hundred persons in the several counties of Baltimore,

Panel.



 

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