2058                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 891

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 misde-
meanor, 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, Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico 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 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 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 Montgom-
ery 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 integ-
rity 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,