WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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them, shall then add to said list of qualified jurors

Add to list of

such qualified persons as shall suffice to make up

qualified ju-
rors.

the names of seven hundred and fifty qualified per-

sons, or thereabout. From the said whole number

the jurors shall then be drawn for the Superior

Court of Baltimore city, the Baltimore City Court,

Court of Common Pleas, and Criminal Court of

Baltimore, in the manner hereinbefore provided by

this article.

614 A. The provisions of this article shall be

Provisions

deemed and taken to be mandatory upon the judges

mandatory.

of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city, and upon

each one thereof. Any person who shall fraudulently

Not to mark or

mark or designate, or open or leave open, or cause or

designate.

knowingly permit to be marked or designated, or to

be opened or left open, any ballot or ballots for ju-

rors which shall be prepared for the purpose of being

drawn under this article, or who, by any fraudulent

contrivance, device or collusion whatever, shall pre-

pare or arrange, or cause or knowingly permit to be

prepared or arranged, any ballot or ballots aforesaid,

so that the same or any thereof may be known or

recognized in the drawing thereof, or may be drawn

in preference to others, or omitted to be drawn in

preference to others, or for the purpose of their being

so known or recognized, or being so drawn or omit-

ted to be so drawn; and any person or persons who

shall in any way fraudulently or collusively deal

with the ballots aforesaid, or any of them, or with

Not to inter-
fere with bal-

the drawing thereof, or with the preparation or fold-

lots.

ing of said ballots, or with the wheel aforesaid, so

that the fair operation and the lawful and impartial

execution of the provisions of this article in relation

to the selection of juries in the city of Baltimore

shall be knowingly prevented or interfered with, or

with intent to interfere with or, prevent the same,

or to permit or allow the same to be interfered with

or prevented, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and

Guilty of a

upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to be

misdemeanor.

confined, in the discretion of the court, in the Peni-

tentiary or Maryland House of Correction for a

term of not less than one nor more than three years.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts

of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act

Inconsistent
acts repealed.

are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby

repealed.