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the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Frederick County," sub-:
title "Jurors" to come in after section 288, and to be known
as section 288 A, relating to the method of drawing Jurors in
"Frederick County," and repealing all laws in conflict there-
with.
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New section.
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SEC. 288 A. In Frederick county, there shall be procured by
the Clerk of the Circuit Court, a jury box of convenient size,
which shall be divided into as many compartments as there
may from time to time be election districts in said county, and
which compartments shall be numbered to correspond with the
districts of the county, and the names of the persons selected
by the Judges of the Circuit Court for said county, in the man-
ner prescribed in article fifty-one of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, title "Juries," shall be placed by said judges in said
compartments of said box, respectively, which bear the num-
bers of the districts where the persons so selected, respectively
reside; and it shall be the duty of said judges, when selecting
the panel of two hundred persons, as provided for in section
seven of said article fifty-one of the Code of Public General
Laws, to select twenty-five of said names from election district
number two, and the remaining one hundred and. seventy-five
names from the remaining election districts of the county
equally as nearly as possible, and there shall then be drawn in
the manner provided in said article fifty-one, for the other coun-
ties, nine names from compartment number two, and the other
thirty-nine names necessary to make up the full number of
forty-eight, shall then be drawn from the remaining compart-
ments, so that at least one, and not more than two names shall
be drawn from each of said other compartments, the said
judges designating from which of said compartments, but one
name shall be drawn; provided, that in drawing the jurors for
the December term of the Circuit Court for said county, the
twenty-five names required, shall be taken from those remain-
ing in the box, after the drawing of the preceding August term,
five to drawn from the compartment number two, and one from
each of the other compartments, so long as there are twenty-
one election districts in said county, and whenever the number
of election districts in said county shall exceed twenty-one,
then five names shall be drawn from said compartment number
two, and the remaining twenty shall be made up by drawing
one from each of twenty other districts, to be designated by
said judges; and no name which may be so drawn to serve as
a regular juror in "Frederick County" at any term of court,
shall be replaced in said box for the period of two years there
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Drawing of
jurors.
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