WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 87

CHAPTER 79
(House Bill 275)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
824 and 825 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County, 1943 edition, being Article 17 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, as enacted by
Chapter 444 of the Acts of 1912, title Prince George's
County, subtitle "Jurors", providing for the selection, draw-
ing, and summoning of jurors for said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 824 and 825 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Prince George's County, 1943 edition, being Article
17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, as the
same were enacted by Chapter 444 of the Acts of 1912, title
"Prince George's County", sub-title "Jurors", be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

824. In Prince George's County there shall be procured by
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county a jury box of
convenient size, which shall be divided into as many compart-
ments as there may from time to time be election districts in
said county, and which compartments shall be numbered to
correspond with the election districts of the county as they
now exist or may be increased or decreased from time to
time; that when the names of the persons shall have been
selected to serve as jurors by the judge or judges of the Court
in the manner prescribed in Article 51 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Jurors", the judge or judges may before
the convening of the term of Court to which said jurors are
to be summoned, of the names so selected choose and appoint
one who shall be foreman of the grand jury, and shall cause
all the names selected, except the name of the foreman previ-
ously chosen, to be placed by said judge or judges in said
compartments of said box respectively which bear the num-
bers of the districts where the persons so selected respectively
reside. It shall be the duty of the said judge or judges, when
selecting the panel of two hundred persons as provided for in
Section 7 of Article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws,
to distribute the names of the persons on said panel as nearly
equal as may be possible among said compartments. The
judge or judges, in addition to the* foreman so selected, shall
draw from said compartments in all not less than seventy-
two nor more than ninety-two names, and from all of said
compartments an equal number of names as near as pos-