SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1103

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 9 and 10 (c) and
12 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Juries," subtitle "Quali-
fication and Selection of Jurors," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

9.    Selection of panel; effect of local laws.

It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit court 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, to proceed to select from the lists last fur-
nished by the clerks of the county commissioners provided for in
Section 6 and from the pollbooks 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,
Howard, and Calvert, [and in Montgomery County a panel to consist
of not less than one hundred and fifty (150) nor more than 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 of 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 conformity with
and according to the spirit and intent of this article, and which said
lists and certificates shall be filed with the clerks of the 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 approxi-
mately the same proportion as required for drawing the list of reg-
ular jurors and in Prince George's County substantially proportionate
to the population of the respective election districts of the county as
disclosed by the latest population estimates of the State Department
of Health. Modified as to Garrett, Allegany, Anne Arundel, Dor-
chester, Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset, [and] St. Mary's, and Mont-
gomery 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.    Drawing; special provisions as to certain counties.

(c) Montgomery County.—In Montgomery County, after the fore-
man of the grand jury shall have been selected, the remaining [699]
names shall be used for drawing a set of not less than 125 names,
THOSE who shall serve as jurors during the term of court for which
they are chosen and until the beginning of the next regular jury
term. A box of the form aforesaid shall be procured and of convenient
size, and said box shall be divided into as many compartments as
there may be election districts in said county, shall be numbered to
correspond with the election districts in said county, and the names
of the persons selected as aforesaid shall be placed by the said judges