344 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 55
7. It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit courts
for each of the counties, not less than fifteen days before
the commencement of each term of the court at which
jurors are required to attend, in the presence of such prac-
ticing members of the bar of said court as shall think proper
to attend, notice of the time and place having been first
given to said bar through the crier of said courts, to pro-
ceed to select from the lists last furnished by the clerks
of the county commissioners provided for in the preceding
section 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 that
may be last held previously to such selection or from such
other list of names as the Court may find available, A
PANEL TO CONSIST OF THE NAMES OF 200 PER-
SONS IN EACH OF DORCHESTER AND WICOMICO
COUNTIES, AND a panel to consist of not less than one
hundred and fifty (150) nor more than three hundred (300)
names in each of the several counties of Washington, Mont-
gomery, Carroll, Frederick, Prince George's, Harford, Cecil,
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Charles, Calvert, Kent and Talbot, the names to be fairly
and imparitally selected of the age aforesaid by the said
judges, with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety
and integrity of such persons and without the least refer-
ence to their political opinions; and of the names of such
persons when so selected, a list shall be made and a certifi-
cate thereto appended by the said judges that the said list
of names has been duly selected in conformity with and
according to the spirit and intent of this Article, and which
said lists and certificates shall be filed with the clerks of the
said courts and by them preserved as other proceedings of
the said courts are kept. In the counties above mentioned
the names drawn on the panel shall be distributed among
the several election districts in approximately the same pro-
portion as required for drawing the list of regular jwors.
Modified as to Howard, Garrett, Allegany, Anne Arundel,
Worcester, Somerset, St. Mary's, Caroline, Queen Anne's
and Talbot counties and special laws enacted. This section
shall not apply to Baltimore County, as to which special
provision is made by the local law therefor.
8.
(c). In Montgomery County, after the foreman of the
Grand Jury shall have been, selected, the remaining 299
names shall be used for drawing a set of not less than 72
nor more than 97 names, who shall serve as jurors during
the term of court for which they are chosen and until the
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