J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               497

tion, as amended), relating to the selection of the jury panel in
Montgomery County; the number of jurors on such panel, the
drawing of jurors, and pertaining generally thereto. IN MONT-
GOMERY COUNTY.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 9, 10 (C) and 12 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition, as amended), title "Juries", sub-title "Quali-
fication and Selection of Jurors" be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, 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 of 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 proceed to
select from the lists last furnished by the clerks of the county com-
missioners provided for in Sec. 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 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, Harford,
Cecil, Charles, Calvert, Kent and Talbot, and in Montgomery County
a panel to consist of not less than one hundred and fifty (150) nor
more than five hundred (500) names, 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 impar-
tially 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 cer-
tificates 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 drawing the list of regular jurors.
Modified as to Howard, Garrett, Allegany, Anne Arundel, Wor-
cester, 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.

(c) Montgomery County.—In Montgomery County, after the fore-
man of the grand jury shall have been selected, the remaining
[299] 499 names shall be used for drawing a set of not less than
[72] 125 nor more than [97] 200 names, who shall serve as jurors