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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

served on any of the regular panels of the aforesaid

courts since the making of the list of qualified jurors

as aforesaid to be stricken from said list, and the per-

sons whose names are so stricken from the said list

shall not be liable to serve again as jurors for two

years, accounting from the beginning of the term for

which their names were so entered on the list of quali-

fied jurors; the said judges, or a majority of them,

shall then add to said list of qualified jurors such

qualified persons as shall suffice to make up the num-

ber of seven hundred and fifty qualified persons, or

thereabouts. From the said whole number the jurors,

to serve for three weeks from the ensuing Monday,

shall then be drawn for the said courts, and their

names be recorded in the said jury books in the man-

ner hereinbefore provided by this article, under the

superintendence of one or more of said judges. And

if, at the time of any drawing, juries shall not be re-

quired for all of said courts, then it shall not be neces-

Not necessary
to draw panels.

sary to draw panels for the court not requiring them,

but jurors shall be drawn for such court or courts

only as may need them, in the manner hereinbefore

provided in this article, and in the order established

by sections six hundred and five, six hundred and six,

six hundred and seven and six hundred and seven A,

so far as concerns the courts requiring such juries;

and besides summoning said panels for the said courts,

the sheriff shall also summon at the same time such

number of reserves as he may be required by the

judges, or a majority of them, as provided by section

six hundred and nine of this article; and said reserves

shall also be liable to service as in said section

mentioned.

SEC. 614A. Any person who shall fraudulently mark

or designate, or. open or leave open, or cause or know-

ingly permit to be marked or designated, or to be opened

or left open any ballot or ballots for jurors which shall

be prepared for the purpose of being drawn under this

article, or who, by any fraudulent contrivance, device

Penalty for ma-
nipulating bal-

or collusion whatever, shall prepare or arrange, or

lots.

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

for the purpose of their being so known or recognized,

or being so drawn or omitted to. be so drawn; and