SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       1287

said courts are kept. In the counties above mentioned the names
drawn on the panel shall be distributed among the several election
districts in approximately the same proportion as required for draw-
ing the list of regular jurors and in Prince George's [County]
Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's Counties substantially proportionate
to the population of the respective election districts of the [county]
counties, as disclosed by [the latest population estimates of the State
Department of Health.] Any ANY recent reliable population esti-
mates as may be selected by the court. Modified as to Garrett, Alle-
gany, Anne Arundel, Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset
[, and St. Mary's] 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.

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

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 642
(House Bill 122)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 6, Article
51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Supplement), title
"Juries," subtitle "Qualification and Selection of Jurors," to add
Calvert and St. Mary's Counties as exceptions in certain laws
concerning the qualifications and selection of jurors.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 6 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Supplement), title "Juries," subtitle "Qualification and Selec-
tion of Jurors," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

6.

It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commis-
sioners for each of the counties of this State to make out and file with
the clerks of the circuit courts for said counties, not less than twenty
days before the beginning of the second regular terms of said courts
after each and every general election a fair and complete list of the
taxable inhabitants or residents of said county, whose names appear
on the tax books of said county, and who are not known to said clerk
to be under the age of twenty-five years, and to which said lists so to
be made and filed with the said clerks, respectively, shall append a
certificate that said list is fully and fairly made; and for making such
list the said clerk shall receive such compensation as the county
commissioners shall deem right and proper; and for failure to per-
form the duty hereby imposed the said clerk to said commissioners
shall forfeit and pay a fine to the State of not less than five hundred
dollars nor more than one thousand dollars in the discretion of the
court to be received by indictment as for a misdemeanor, and he
shall be thenceforth wholly incapable of holding or exercising the
duties of the said clerk to the county commissioners. Nothing in this