Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                    955

tion), being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Jurors", increasing
the jury panel and providing for two petit juries.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 381 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel
County (1947 Edition), being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Jurors",
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

381. (a) It shall be the duty of the Clerk to the County Commis-
sioners of Anne Arundel County to make out and file with the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for said county, not less than twenty days before
the third Monday of April in each and every year, a fair and com-
plete list of all the male taxable residents of said county whose names
appear on the tax books thereof, and who are not known to said
clerk, or to the Commissioners to be under the age of twenty-five
years, to which list, so to be made and filed, he shall append a cer-
tificate that said list is fully and fairly made; and for which said list
he shall receive such compensation as the County Commissioners of
said county shall deem right and proper, not exceeding fifty dollars
for any one list so made out; and for failure to perform the duty
hereby imposed, the said clerk shall forfeit and pay to the State a
fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thou-
sand dollars, in the discretion of the Court, to be recovered by indict-
ment as for a misdemeanor and shall thenceforth be ineligible of
holding the position of clerk to said County Commissioners.

(b) It shall be the duty of the Judges or a Judge of the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel County, not less than fifteen days before the
commencement of each term of said court, at which jurors are re-
quired to attend, in the presence of such practicing members of the
bar of said court as shall think proper to attend, notice of the time
and place having been first given to said bar through the crier of
said court, to proceed to select from the list last furnished by the
Clerk to the County Commissioners as provided in this section, 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 Anne Arundel County, after any general election
that may have been held last before such section, a panel to consist
of [two hundred and forty] three hundred names of 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 names shall
be selected as to their respective numbers from the respective election
districts of said county as follows: From the First Election District,
[thirty] thirty-five; from the Second Election District, [thirty]
forty; from the Third Election District, [thirty-five] fifty; from the
Fourth Election District, [thirty-five] fifty; from the Fifth Election
District, [thirty-five] fifty; from the Sixth Election District (Annap-
olis City), [forty-five] forty; and from the Seventh and Eighth Elec-
tion Districts a total of thirty-five; and of the names of persons so
elected, 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 the said list of names has been
selected in conformity with and according to the spirit of this
Section, and the said list and certificate shall be filed with the clerk