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thousand dollars ($5,000) [,] annually [may be expended, from the
funds so received by the said Clerk] under direction of the Judges
of said Court, for the payment of a salary or other compensation to a
Court Librarian, to be appointed by the Judges of said Court as
determined by said Judges from time to time [; provided, however,
that any sum so received by the said Clerk of the Circuit Court in
excess of twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500) in any one
year shall be paid over by said Clerk to the Board of County Commis-
sioners of Prince George's County for disbursement by said County
Commissioners as other receipts of County funds].

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

Approved May 6, 1966.

CHAPTER 693
(House Bill 899)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 10(a)
of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Juries," subtitle "Qualification and Selection
of Juries," and Section 436 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Washington County (1957 Edition, being Article 22 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Washington County,"
subtitle "Jurors," to provide for selection of two petit jury panels
for the Circuit Court of Washington County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 10(a) of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Juries," subtitle "Qualification
and Selection of Juries," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

10.

(a) When said list of names selected as directed in Section 9 is
made and certified as therein provided for, immediately thereupon the
said judges of the said respective courts, in the presence of the mem-
bers of the bar, as aforesaid, and such other persons as may think
proper to be present, shall cause all the names selected and placed
in the list as aforesaid to be legibly written upon ballots, which shall
be of equal size and of the same color and appearance, and shall be
closely rolled or folded, and in each of the counties, except Frederick,
Montgomery and Carroll counties, placed by the said judges with
their own hands before the drawings herein provided for in a cubi-
form box, with a sliding top of the square of eight inches, to be pro-
cured for that purpose by the clerk of said court, under the direction
of the said judges, and after so depositing said ballots, the said
box shall be closed and the said judges shall then cause the clerk,
or one of his deputies, whom the said judges shall designate (neither
the one nor the other who may be so required to act to be present at
the writing, rolling or folding and depositing said ballots into the
box as herein directed) to appear before them and then and there,
in the presence of the said judges and such other persons as may