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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said counties, not less than twenty days before
the second regular term of said court after each
and every general election held hereafter, a fair
and complete list of the male taxable or resi-
dents of said counties whose names appear on
the tax books thereof, and who are not known
to said clerks to be under the age of twenty-five
years ; and to said list so to be made and filed
the clerks shall append a certificate that said
list is fully and fairly made ; and for making
such lists the clerks shall receive such compen-
sation as the county commissioners shall deem
right and proper ; and for failure to perform the
duty hereby imposed, the said clerks shall for-

Pay fine.

feit and pay to the state a fine of not less than
five hundred nor more than one thousand dol-
lars, in the discretion of the court, to be re-
covered by indictment as for a misdemeanor,
and shall be thenceforth incapable of holding
position of clerks to county commissioners.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the judges of the circuit courts for said
counties, not less than fifteen days before the
beginning of each term of the court at which

Duty of
judges.

jurors are required to attend, in the presence of
such members of the bar of said court as shall
attend, notice of the time and place having been
first given to said bar through the clerks of said
courts, to proceed to select from the list last
furnished by the clerks of said counties, and
from the poll-books of the several election dis-
tricts of said counties that shall be returned
and filed in the clerk's office of said courts after
any general election last held, a panel that
shall consist of the names of two hundred per-
sons in said counties fairly and impartially
selected, of the age aforesaid, by the judges out
of the election districts of said counties in pro-
portion to the inhabitants or residents of each
district, with special reference to the intelli-
gence, sobriety and integrity of such person,
and without the least reference to political
opinion ; and of the names of such persons so
selected a list shall be made and a certificate
appended thereto by said judges that the said
list of names has been duly selected in con-
formity with and according to the spirit of this