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any person who has not previously received compensation therefor
for jury service rendered to the Circuit Court for Charles County
at any time prior to January 1, 1966. Any such payment or pay-
ments shall be at the rate established by law, and, except for the
time of making payment, shall be in all respects the same as if the
compensation for jury service had been paid at the time the service
was rendered.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws, parts of laws,
and regulations affecting the County Commissioners of Charles
County, the Circuit Court for Charles County, and other officers or
employees of Charles County, which are inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Act are repealed and abrogated to the extent of any
such inconsistency.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved May 6, 1966.

CHAPTER 668
(House Bill 142)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 9 of
Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Supplement),
title "Juries," subtitle "Qualification and Selection of Jurors," to
delete from the law regarding the selection of the jury panel, the
provision requiring prior notice of time and place to be given mem-
bers of the bar as a prerequisite to said selection.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 9 of Article 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tion of Jurors," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with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:

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 Wash-
ington, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Charles and Calvert, and in
Montgomery County a panel to consist of not less than one hundred