J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1431

HUNDRED (300) NAMES IN EACH OF THE SEVERAL
COUNTIES OF WASHINGTON, CARROLL, FREDERICK, HAR-
FORD, CHARLES AND CALVERT, AND IN MONTGOMERY
COUNTY A PANEL TO CONSIST OF NOT LESS THAN ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY (150) NOR MORE THAN FIVE HUN-
DRED (500) NAMES, AND IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
A PANEL TO CONSIST OF NOT LESS THAN [THREE HUN-
DRED (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, SO-
BRIETY 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 CON-
FORMITY WITH AND ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT AND IN-
TENT 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 APPROXIMATELY THE
SAME PROPORTION AS REQUIRED FOR DRAWING THE LIST
OF REGULAR JURORS. MODIFIED AS TO HOWARD, GAR-
RETT, ALLEGANY, ANNE ARUNDEL, DORCHESTER,
WICOMICO, WORCESTER, SOMERSET, AND ST. MARY'S
COUNTIES AND SPECIAL LAWS ENACTED. THIS SECTION
SHALL NOT APPLY TO BALTIMORE, CECIL, CAROLINE,
QUEEN ANNE'S, KENT OR TALBOT COUNTIES, AS TO
WHICH SPECIAL PROVISION IS MADE BY THE LOCAL LAW
THEREFOR.

10.

(g) When said list of names is selected as directed in Section 9,
the procedure in Prince George's County shall be as follows: The clerk
of the court shall assign a number to each name on the list ranging
from one to four hundred (but not less than three FOUR hundred).
Said clerk shall procure a box of suitable size with pellets of uniform
size, color, shape and weight. Each pellet shall contain a number
thereon corresponding to the numbers on the list above referred to.
The clerk shall shake the box and the drawing shall take place in
accordance with the FOLLOWING provisions: of subsection (a) [.] ,
except that The numbers drawn shall be 47 NOT LESS THAN 127
NOR MORE THAN 233. The first 22 pellets so drawn shall
determine the selection of the grand jury except for the foreman,
and the remaining 25 pellets shall determine the selection of the
petit jury, both for the term of court for which the drawing was
made. The foreman of the grand jury shall be selected by the court
from the panel of names used for such drawing. In the event that
a vacancy shall occur in the position of foreman of the grand jury,
either temporarily or permanently, by death, absence, sickness or
any other cause, the court shall have power to appoint some other
member of the grand jury AS foreman as often as the necessity for