J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      1009

ment), title "Juries", subtitle "Qualification and Selection of
Jurors", to provide that Howard County would be among those
counties which draw a panel of prospective jurors of not less than
one hundred fifty (150) or more than three hundred (300)
members.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 9 of Article 50 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
(1965 Supplement), title "Juries," subtitle "Qualification and Selec-
tion of Jurors," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

9. Selection of panel; effect of local laws.

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 of clerk of said courts, to pro-
ceed to select from the lists last furnished by the clerks of the county
commissioners provided for in Section 6 and from the pollbooks 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 elec-
tion 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 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, Charles, Howard, and Calvert, 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 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 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 there-
to 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 approximately the same proportion
as required for drawing the list of regular jurors. Modified as to
f Howard,] Garrett, Allegany, Anne Arundel, Dorchester, Wicomico,
Worcester, Somerset, and St. Mary's counties and special laws en-
acted. 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.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved May 6, 1966.