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with the clerks of the circuit courts for said counties, not less
than twenty days before the beginning of the second regular
term of said courts after each and every general election, a fair
and complete list of the 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 clerk to said commis-
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.
Green v. State, 59 Md 127.

1807, ch 329. 1868, ch. 316. 1870, ch. 96. 1870, ch. 220. 1870, ch. 331.
1876, ch. 353. 1878, ch 369. 1888, ch. 432.

7. It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit courts for
each of the counties, not less than fifteen days before the com-
mencement 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 through the criers-
of said courts, to proceed 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, a panel to consist of the
names of two hundred persons in the several counties of Balti-
more, Washington, Montgomery, Allegany, Carroll, Frederick,
Anne Arundel, Prince George, Harford, Cecil, Dorchester and
Wicomico, and of one hundred and fifty persons in the several
counties of Howard, Worcester, Somerset, Charles, Calvert, St.

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