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for Prince George's County to relieve a crowded docket or to serve in
a temporary absence or inability of a full-time judge of the People's
Court, provided, however, that he be given forty-eight (48) hours
notice. The salary of the judge causing a substitution shall not be
diminished on account of compensation paid to such substitute.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 641
(House Bill 121)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 9 of
Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Supplement),
title "Juries," subtitle "Qualification and Selection of Jurors," to
change provisions for the selection of the grand and petit jurors
in Prince George's, Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's Counties.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 9 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Supplement), title "Juries," subtitle "Qualification and Selec-
tion of Juries," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with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 pre-
viously 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 con-
formity 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