T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

mon such person or persons, in the order in which
they are thereupon set down and not otherwise.

CHAP. 308.

SEC. 11. Every petit juror sworn upon any spe-
cial panel shall continue to serve thereon until dis-
charged by the court, notwithstanding the expira-
tion of his term of three weeks aforesaid; but no
one summoned as a juror shall be excused from ser-
vice except in open court, on good cause shown to
the satisfaction of the court; and if any juror sum-
moned and not excused shall fail to attend the said
court until duly discharged, he shall be fined for
the use of the said city not less than twenty nor
more than two hundred dollars, to be recovered by
attachment or such other appropriate process as the
said court may direct.

Jurors.

SEC. 12. If, at the trial of any cause in any one
of the said several courts as aforesaid, tales de cir-
cumstantibus shall be ordered, it shall be the duty
of the sheriff to summon as such talesmen, those
who are entered in the said book, and who are not
upon the regular panels as aforesaid, and such
talesmen shall be summoned and called to be sworn
or affirmed on their voir dire or otherwise in the
order in which their names are set down on the
said jury book, unless the said sheriff or his deputy
in that behalf shall swear that he has made true
and diligent search for such persons as do not ap-
pear, and that they cannot be found, or unless,
being summoned, such persons have failed to ap-
pear; in that event, such of the talesmen as have
been properly summoned and have appeared shall
be called to be sworn in the order in which their
said names are recorded in the jury book aforesaid.

Talesmen.

SEC. 13. If it should so happen that the said lists of
persons competent to act as jurors, other than the
regular panels as aforesaid, should at any time be
exhausted as talesmen, it shall also be competent
for the sheriff to summon as talismen, any of the
regular panels in any of the other of said courts in
Baltimore city, who may be at the time of such
summons not engaged as parts of any special panel

Regular pan-
els may be
summoned as
talesmen.

in any of the said courts; but it is herein provided,
that whenever any part of the regular panel of any
court, shall be by the sheriff as aforesaid, summoned
to attend in any other as talesmen, jurors of the
regular panel of the court in which talesmen are
required, or so many of them as shall be needed,

Proviso.