1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 308.

Jurors for the
Court of Com-
mon Pleas.

SEC. 6. The twenty-five names next in order on
the said list shall constitute and be the jurors for
the Court of Common Pleas for the three weeks to
ensue after the commencement of the next term of
the said court.

Jurors for
Criminal ct.

SEC. 7. The twenty-five names next drawn on
the said list shall constitute and he the jurors for
the Criminal court of Baltimore for the three weeks
to ensue after the commencement of the next term
of the said court.

Names to be
entered in
jury-books.

SEC. 8. After all the names in the box are drawn
it shall he the duty of the said judges to cause the
names of the said several panels, and the names of
the other persons drawn as aforesaid, to be entered
in five several books, in the order in which the
said panels, and the names as aforesaid were drawn
as aforesaid, and the said books shall be certified
by the said several judges, to be true copies of each
other, and shall be denominated jury books for Bal-
timore city.

Duty of the
judges in re-
gard to the
jury-books.

SEC. 9. When the said jury books are prepared
and certified, as directed in the foregoing section,
it shall be the duty of the said judges, or a majori-
ty of them, to cause one of the said books to be de-
posited in the custody of the clerk of the Superior
court of Baltimore city; one in the custody of the
clerk of the court of Common Pleas; one in the cus-
tody of the clerk of the Criminal court of Baltimore,
and one in the custody of the sheriff of Baltimore city,
and one shall be retained by the said judges, or by
such one of their number as they shall appoint, for the
purpose of verifying the lists of persons so deliver-
ed as aforesaid to the clerks as aforesaid, or to the
sheriff of Baltimore city, and when the said book
is delivered to him, the said sheriff of Baltimore,
he shall immediately summon the several jurors,
drawn for the several panels, named in the said
book, to serve in the courts for which they have
been respectively drawn, at such time as shall be
designated by the court.

Vacancies —
how filled.

SEC. 10. If any of the jurors, so set clown on the
lists as aforesaid, shall be legally disabled, or ex-
cused from attending, the sheriff on being notified
thereof shall complete the said panel or panels, in
which jurors are needed, by summoning in the
stead of such juror or jurors, the persons whose
names are set down in the said jury book next after
the regular panels as aforesaid, and he shall sum-