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Meeting of
judges—their
duties with
respect to the
selection of
jurors.
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SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of the judges afore-
said, to assemble on the fourth Monday of the May
term of the Superior court of Baltimore, as afore-
said, and thereafter from three weeks to three
weeks during the said terms; and also ten days
before the commencement of each of the regular
terms of the Superior court as aforesaid, during
each year, and at such meetings the said judges
shall cause the said sheriff of Baltimore city, to
attend as in this law hereinbefore provided: and
the said judges or a majority of them, shall then
cause the names of those who have served on the
regular panels of the courts aforesaid, to be stricken
from the jury lists, and the said persons shall not
be liable to serve again as jurors for the period of
two years, reckoning the said two years from the
said preceding second Monday in May as aforesaid;
and the said judges shall then add to the said jury
list such number of names as shall make up the
whole number of seven hundred and fifty names,
the said additional names to be drawn by the sheriff
or his deputy, from a list thereof to be made by the
judges, as provided in section two, and to be added
to the prior list and recorded in the order in which
they shall be drawn, and then from the said whole
number, the panels shall be taken for the Superior
court, Court of Common Pleas and Criminal court,
in the manner heretofore provided in this law; and
all the regulations prescribed by this law for the
government of said judges, and of the sheriff or his
deputy as aforesaid, in reference to jurors, shall
apply to all grand and petit jurors to be thereafter
selected and summoned for the said city during the
year aforesaid; and the jury books hereinbefore
directed to be prepared, shall be corrected and cer-
tified by the said judges as corrected, and be pre-
served as hereinbefore directed.
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