1252                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 575

Maryland (1957 Edition and 1962 Supplement), title "Juries", sub-
title "Qualification and Selection of Jurors", be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and that new sub-section
(h) be and it is hereby added to said Section 10, and all to read as
follows:

6.

It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commissioners for
each of the counties of this State to make out and file with the clerks
of the circuit courts for said counties, not less than twenty days
before the beginning of the second regular terms of said courts
after each and every general election a fair and complete list of the
male taxable inhabitants or residents of said county, whose names
appear on the tax books of said county, and who are not known to
said clerk to be under the age of twenty-five years, and to which
said lists so to be made and filed with the said clerks, respectively,
shall append a certificate that said list is fully and fairly made; and
for making such list the said clerk shall receive such compensation
as the county commissioners shall deem right and proper; and for
failure to perform the duty hereby imposed the said clerk to said
commissioners shall forfeit and pay a fine to the State of not less
than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars in the
discretion of the court to be received by indictment as for a mis-
demeanor, and he shall be thenceforth wholly incapable of holding or
exercising the duties of the said clerk to the county commissioners.
Nothing in this section shall apply to Baltimore, Charles, Harford,
Montgomery, Prince George's, Cecil or Worcester counties. Special
local laws exist for Caroline, Somerset, Anne Arundel, St. Mary's,
Queen Anne's and Talbot counties.

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
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, Carroll, Frederick,
Harford, [Cecil,] Charles, Calvert, Kent and Talbot, and in Mont-
gomery 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 impartially selected of the age aforesaid by the said
judges, with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety and in-
tegrity 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