THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 531
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 222 and 223 of Article 8 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Cecil County, " sub-title "Jurors, " be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as fol-
lows:
222. It shall be the duty of the judges, or a judge, of
the Circuit Court for Cecil County, not less than fifteen
days before the commencement of each term of said court,
at which jurors are required to attend, in the presence
of such practicing members of the Bar of said county as
shall think proper to attend, notice of the time and place
having first been given to said Bar, through the crier of
said court, to proceed to select from the list last furnished
by the Clerk of the County Commissioners as provided in
Section 221 of this Article, and from the poll books of the
several election districts of said county, which shall have
been returned and filed in the clerk's office of the Circuit
Court for Cecil County after any general election last held,
a panel to consist of two hundred (200) citizens of said
county, to be fairly and impartially selected with special
reference to the intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such
persons, and without the least reference to their political
opinions, which said two hundred citizens shall be selected
as to their respective numbers from the respective election
districts of said county, as follows: From the First Elec-
tion District, [twenty-five] fourteen (14); from the Sec-
ond Election District, [twenty-five] fifteen (15); from the
Third Election District, [thirty] fifty (50); from the
Fourth Election District, [twenty-two] thirteen (13);
from the Fifth Election District, [twenty-five] thirty-one
(31); from the Sixth Election District, [twenty-two] nine-
teen (19); from the Seventh Election District, [thirty]
forty-five (45); from the Eighth Election District, [ten]
six (6); from the Ninth Election District, [eleven] seven
(7), and of the names of the persons so selected, and the
respective districts from which they have been selected,
a list shall be made, and a certificate appended thereto by
said judge or judges, certifying that said list of names
have been selected in conformity with and according to
the spirit of this [Act] sub-title, and the said list and
certificate shall be filed with the clerk of the said court
and by him be preserved as other proceedings of the said
court are kept.
223. When said list of names, selected as by directed
by the preceding section of this [Act] sub-title is made
and certified as hereinbefore provided, immediately there-
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