ART. 62. ] JURIES.

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
clerk to said commissioners shall forfeit and pay a fine to the State

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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.

Penalty

2. 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 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 of said courts, to pro-
ceed to select from the lists last furnished by the clerks of the county
commissioners, provided for in the preceding section, 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 courts after any
general election that may be last held previously to such selection,

1868, c. 118,
1870, c 96, 220,
331, 1876, c 353;
1878, c 108
Judges of Cir-
cuit Courts to
select from lists.
34 Md 298

a panel, to consist of the names of two hundred persons in the sev-
eral counties of Baltimore, Washington, Montgomery, Allegheny,
Carroll, Frederick, Anne Arundel, Prince George, Harford, Cecil,
Dorchester, and of one hundred and fifty persons in the several
counties of Howard, Worcester, Somerset, Charles, Calvert, St.
. Mary's, Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline, Talbot, Garrett, and Wico-
mico, to be fairly and impartially selected of the age aforesaid, ' by
the said judges, with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety,
and integrity of such persons, and without the least reference to
their political opinion; and of the names of such persons, when so

Panel.

selected, a list shall be made, and a certificate thereto appended by
the said judges, that the said list of names has been duly selected in
conformity with and according to the spirit and intent of this act,
and which said lists and certificates shall be filed with the clerks of
the said courts, and by them preserved as other proceedings of the
said courts are kept.

Certificate.

3. When said list of names, selected as directed in the preceding
section, is made and certified as therein provided for, immediately
thereupon the said judges of the said respective courts, in the pres-
ence of the members of the bar, as aforesaid, and such other persons
as may think proper to be present, shall cause all the names selected
and placed on the list, as aforesaid, to be legibly written upon bal-
lots, which shall be of equal size, and of the same color and appear-
ance, and shall be closely rolled or folded, and in each of the counties,
except Baltimore county, placed by the said judges with their own
hands immediately before the drawing herein provided for, into a
cubiform box with a sliding top, of the square of eight inches, to be

1870, c 220, 331.
Mode of draw-
ing