464 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

shall, before the first day of February in each and every year,
lodge with the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, for
the use of said judges, a certified list of so many of the taxable
male inhabitants, resident in the said city, as he may have been
directed to furnish by the order of said judges or of a majority
of them, setting out their names and places of residence, so far
as the same may be ascertained; and the said collector shall
receive for such service a compensation to be fixed by said judges,
and he shall be paid as jurors are paid.

1882, ch. 67. 1884, ch. 460.

585. The said list of persons, qualified under the laws of this
State to be grand and petit jurors in the city of Baltimore, having
been prepared as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said judges,
of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, or a majority of them,
to meet in each and every year in some one of the court rooms
of the city of Baltimore, on one or more days to be appointed by
them, before the beginning of each regular term of the criminal
court of Baltimore, which said meeting, or the last of which said
appointed meetings shall be at least ten days before the beginning
of each of said terms, and to select from said list the names of
twenty-three persons, who shall constitute and be the grand jurors,
for the city of Baltimore for the ensuing term of said criminal
court of Baltimore; the list of grand jurors so selected shall be
attested by the signatures of the judges selecting the same, and
be given forthwith to the sheriff of Baltimore city, who shall
immediately summon the persons so selected, to serve as grand
jurors for the city of Baltimore at the ensuing term of the crim-
inal court of Baltimore. If any of the grand jurors so selected
and summoned shall be shown to be disqualified, or be from any
sufficient cause excused from serving, it shall be the duty of the
said judges of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, or of a
majority of them, to re-assemble as soon as they are notified
thereof by the judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, and to
assemble again, from time to time, if the same be necessary, to
correct and complete, in the manner hereinbefore provided for,
the said grand jury for the city of Baltimore, by the selection of
proper persons as aforesaid from the list of qualified jurors made
as aforesaid, omitting in said selection the names of persons on.