J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       913

shall be expended under the direction of the judge of the Circuit
Court for Worcester County.

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

Approved May 6, 1966.

CHAPTER 528
(Senate Bill 167)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 156 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Howard County (1965 Edition, being
Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title
"Howard County", subtitle "Jurors", as added, last amended by
Chapter 240 of the Acts of 1965, to provide that a list of seventy-
three names may be drawn as jurors, in the discretion of the Judge
or Judges of the Circuit Court for Howard County, at such time as
they deem it necessary and to make other changes concerning the
jury panel.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 156 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Howard County
(1965 Edition, being Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland), title "Howard County", subtitle "Jurors", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

156.

In Howard County there shall be procured by the Clerk of the
Circuit Court a jury box of convenient size, which shall be divided
into as many compartments as there may, from time to time, be elec-
tion districts in said county, and which compartments shall be num-
bered to correspond with the districts of the county; that when the
names of the persons are selected by the Judges of the Circuit Court
for said county, or either of them, in the manner prescribed in
Article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Juries", im-
mediately thereupon the Judge or Judges of said Court, in the
presence of the members of the bar and such other persons as may
attend, of the said names so selected, shall select and appoint one,
who shall be foreman of the Grand Jury, and shall cause all the names
selected, except the name of the foreman, to be placed by said Judges,
or either of them, in said compartments of said box, respectively,
which bear the numbers of the districts where the persons so selected
respectively reside. The said Judges, or either of them, when selecting
the panel of [one hundred and fifty] not more than three hundred
persons as provided for in Section nine of Article 51 of the 1957 Code
of Public General Laws, shall not be required to distribute the names
of the persons on said panel as nearly equal as may be possible among
said compartments, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, but
said Judges may, or either of them, when selecting said panel, dis-
tribute the names of the persons on said panel among said compart-
ments in such a way as to ensure, insofar as it may be practical to
do so, that a certain number of jurors will be drawn from each of
said election districts, but the number of names so distributed among