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said compartments, instead of being equal, may be, insofar as it may
be practical to do so, distributed in the approximate ratio or pro-
portion that the number of registered voters, or the number of tax-
able residents in each of said election districts bears to the total
number of registered voters or taxable residents in Howard County;
it being the intent and purpose of the aforegoing provisions to permit
said Judge or Judges to apportion the names of persons selected for
jury service among the election districts of said County in accordance
with the number of persons eligible for jury service in each of said
election districts as the same may be determined, from time to time,
by reference to the lists of registered voters or lists of taxable'
residents in said election districts. Nothing herein shall be construed
to invalidate, nor shall invalidate the selection and drawing of said
jury on the ground that said Judge or Judges failed to apportion,
as aforesaid, said names with mathematical precision; it being the
intent hereof to allow said Judge or Judges all reasonable latitude
and discretion in selecting qualified persons for jury service with due
regard to representation from all areas of said Howard County. The
said Judge or Judges, in addition to the foreman so selected, shall
draw in all forty-seven names, or when, in his or their discretion, he
or they shall deem it necessary, shall draw in all seventy-three (73)
names, said names to be drawn from said compartments in the
approximate ratio or proportion that the names of the persons on
the panel have been distributed among said compartments as herein-
before provided, and provided, that after the foreman has been
selected the district of his residence shall be carefully noted, and at
said drawing one less name shall be drawn from the compartment
representing the district in which he resides; and if the foreman so
selected should die, or for any other cause be excused by the Court,
the Judge or Judges, after drawing another name from the compart-
ment representing the district in which the foreman originally
selected and so dead or excused resided, may select and appoint any
one of the jurors drawn as foreman in place of the foreman so dead
or excused.

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

Approved May 6, 1966.

CHAPTER 529
(Senate Bill 201)

AN ACT to add new Section 126A to the Code of Public Local Laws
of Worcester County (1961 Edition, being Article 24 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Worcester County", sub-
title "Circuit Court", to follow immediately after Section 126
thereof, to empower the judge of the Circuit Court for Worcester
County to employ a personal secretary, stating the salary of the
secretary and providing payment of same. AND TO PROVIDE
FOR THE FIXING OF THE SALARY BY THE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 126A be and it is hereby added to the Code of