1188                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 666

of Jurors," increasing the maximum number of persons who may
be selected for a jury panel in Montgomery County and eliminat-
ing a provision limiting the numbers of persons subject to jury
duty in said County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 9 and 10(c) of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1965 Supplement), title "Juries," subtitle "Qualification
and Selection of Jurors," be and they are hereby repealed and re-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 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 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 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)] seven
hundred (700) 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 in-
tegrity of such persons and without the least reference to their
political opinions and 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 intent of this article,
and which said lists and certificates shall be filed with the clerks of
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, 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.

(c) In Montgomery County, after the foreman of the grand
jury shall have been selected, the remaining [449] 699 names shall
be used for drawing a set of not less than 125 [nor more than 2001
names, who shall serve as jurors during the term of court for which