J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1013

(1957 Edition), title "Juries", sub-title "Qualification and Selection
of Jurors", and to add new Sections 10 (f) and 25 (h) to said
Article and sub-title, to follow immediately after Sections 10 (e)
and 25 (g), respectively, relating generally to the jury system in
Charles County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 9, 10 (a), 12 and 25 (a) of Article 51 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Juries", sub-title "Qualifi-
cation and Selection of Jurors", be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, and that new Sections 10 (f) and 25 (h)
be and they are hereby added to said Article and sub-title, to follow
immediately after Sections 10 (e) and 25 (g), respectively, and all
to read as follows:

9. 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 or clerk of said courts, to
proceed to select from the lists last furnished by the clerks of the
county commissioners provided for in Section 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 gen-
eral 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 Wi-
comico 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,
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 conformity 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 approxi-
mately the same proportion as required for drawing the list of regu-
lar jurors. Modified as to Howard, Garrett, Allegany, Anne Arundel,
Worcester, Somerset, St. Mary's, Caroline, Queen Anne's, and Talbot
counties and special laws enacted. This section shall not apply to
Baltimore County, as to which special provision is made by the local
law therefor.

10. (a) In general.—When said list of names selected as directed
in Section 9 is made and certified as therein provided for, immedi-
ately thereupon the said judges of the said respective courts, in the
presence of the members of the bar, as aforesaid, and such other
persons as may think proper to be present, shall cause all the names