Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                      965

CHAPTER 579
(House Bill 390)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Article 51, Sec-
tion 8 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition) as
enacted by Chapter 55, Section 7 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of 1950, title "Jurors", relating generally to the selection of
juries and jurors in certain counties, and increasing the number
of names on the list from which the jury is to be drawn in Prince
George's County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 8 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
1951 Edition, as enacted by Chapter 55, Section 7 of said Act, title
"Jurors", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

8. It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit courts for each
of the counties, not less than fifteen days before the commencement
of each term of the court at which jurors are required 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 courts, to pro-
ceed to select from the lists last furnished by the clerks of the County
Commissioners provided for in Section [7] 6 and from the poll books
of the several election districts of said counties that shall be returned
and filed in the clerk's office of said courts after any general election
that may be last held previously to such election or from such other
list of names as the Court may find available, a panel to consist of
the names of 200 persons in each of Dorchester and Wicomico
Counties, and a panel to consist of not less than one hundred and
fifty (150) nor more than three hundred (300) names in each of
the several counties of Washington, Montgomery, Carroll, Frederick,
[Prince Goerge's,] Harford, Cecil, Charles, Calvert, Kent and
Talbot, and in Prince George's County a panel to consist of not less
than three hundred (300) nor more than four hundred (400) names,
the names to be fairly and impartially selected of the age aforesaid
by the said judges, with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety
and integrity of such persons and without the least reference to their
political opinions; and of the names of such persons when so selected,
a list shall be made and a certificate thereto appended by the said
judges that the said list of names has been duly selected in con-
formity with and according to the spirit and intent of this Article,
and which said lists and certificates shall be filed with the clerks of
the said courts and by them preserved as other proceedings of the
said courts are kept. In the counties above mentioned the names
drawn on the panel shall be distributed among the several election
districts in approximately the same proportion as required for draw-
ing the list of regular jurors. Modified as to Howard, Garrett, Alle-
gany, Anne Arundel, Worcester, Somerset, St. Mary's, Caroline,
Queen Anne's, and Talbot counties and special laws enacted. This

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.