1288                            Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 786

CHAPTER 786
(House Bill 527)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 916 and
917 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County
(Everstine's 1953 Edition, being Article 17 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, as enacted by Chapter 771 of the Acts
of 1957), title "Prince George's County", sub-title "Jurors", pro-
viding for the selection, drawing and summoning of jurors for
said county.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 916 and 917 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County (Everstine's 1953 Edition, being Article 17 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, as enacted by Chapter
771 of the Acts of 1957), title "Prince George's County", sub-title
"Jurors", be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

916. 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. 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 pre-
viously chosen, to be placed by said judge or judges in said box. It
shall be the duty of the said judge or judges, when selecting the panel
of not less than three hundred (300) nor more than four hundred
(400) persons as provided for in Section 8 of Article 51 of the Code
of Public General Laws (1951 Edition), to distribute the names of
the persons on said panel substantially proportionate to the popula-
tion of the respective election districts of said county as disclosed by
the latest public census. The judge or judges, in addition to the
foreman so selected, shall draw from said box in all not less than one
hundred and twenty-seven (127) nor more than [one hundred and
fifty-seven (157)] two hundred and thirty-three (233). Provided,
that if the foreman so selected should die or for any cause should
be disqualified or be excused by the Court, the said judge or judges,
after drawing another name from the box may select and appoint
any one of the jurors drawn as foreman in place of the foreman so
dead, disqualified or excused. The names so drawn shall be duly re-
corded by the said judge or judges or by the Clerk in his or their
presence and under his or their direction, in the order in which they
shall be drawn. Thereupon forthwith the said judge or judges shall
order a venire facias directed to the sheriff of the county, command-
ing him to summon as jurors to attend at the next ensuing term of
said court the several persons whose names may be drawn as afore-
said; and if any such persons whose names are so drawn and are

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