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LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 473
in the custody of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, and one in the custody of the Sheriff of Baltimore City,
and one shall be retained by the said Judges of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City, or by such one of their number as
they shall appoint for the purpose of verifying the lists of per-
sons so delivered as aforesaid to the Clerks or the Sheriff of
Baltimore City. And when the said books shall have been de-
livered to the said Sheriff, he shall immediately summon the
several jurors drawn for the several panels named in the said
book, to serve in the court for which they have been respectively
drawn, at such time as shall be designated by the court. And
in addition to summoning the said jurors for the said several
panels, the said Sheriff shall also summon such additional num-
ber of persons, whose names are set down in said book, and as
nearly as may be in the order in which their names are so set
down, as the said Judges of the Supreme Bench, or a majority
of them, shall direct, to appear in the room of the Superior Court
of Baltimore City at the same time with the panel for said court.
And the said additional number of jurors shall constitute a re-
serve, from which, without further summons, jurors may be
selected to serve in lieu of any persons drawn for the regular
panels of said court aforesaid, who may not be found, fail to ap-
pear, are legally disabled, or are excused or excluded from at-
tending, so that the panels may be completed by selecting from
said reserve, in the following order: First, for the Superior
Court of Baltimore City; second, the Criminal Court of Balti-
more; third, the Baltimore City Court; and fourth, the Court
of Common Pleas. And until said panels have been completed,
said reserves shall be required, upon the order of the several
courts, to proceed from one to the other in the order above
mentioned; and when all said panels have been completed, those
persons summoned for such reserve, and not empaneled, shall be
discharged, but shall not thereby be excused from service when
resummoned; and in empaneling juries for said reserve their
names shall be called in the order in which they appear in said
book; and the names of said reserves shall first be all called in
the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Judge of which court
shall determine upon their qualifications as jurors, and the
right or claim of any members of said reserve to be excused or
exempted from service.
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