Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-06-11
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AN ACT

AN All
To repeal section 2, of an Act passed March
2lst, 1867, chapter 329, entitled au Act tc
provide for the selection, drawing and sum-
moning of Jurors in the several counties, and
prescribing their qualification, and re-enac1
the same with amendment.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted bythe General Assem-
bly, Of Maryland, That section two of an Act
passed March twenty-frst, eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven, chapter three hundred and
twenty-nine, entitled an Act to provide for the
selection, drawing and summoning of Jurors
in the several counties and prescribing theil
qualification, be and the same is hereby repeal
ed and re-enacted to read as follows:
a.. And be 1t enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the Judges of the Circuit Courts fol
each of the counties, at any time after the regu-
lar term of said courts, at which jurors are re-
quired to attend, has adjourned, but not less
than fifteen days before the commencement Of
the next succeeding term, at which juries are
required to attend, in the presence to such prac-
tising members of the bar of said court as shall
think proper to attend, notice of the time and
place having been first given to said bar,
through the criers of said courts, to proceed to
select from the lists last furnished by the clerks
OF the county commissioners, provided for in
the first section of this Act, and from the poll
books of the several election districts of said
counties that shall be returned and filed in the
clerks office of said court, after any general
election that may be last held previous to such
selection, a panel to consist of the names of
five hundred persons in the county of Balti-
more, of two hundred persons in the several
counties Of Washington, Montgomery, Allega-
ny, Carroll, Frederick, Anne Arundel, Prince
Georges, Hartford, Cecil, Dorchester, Worces-
ter, and Somerset, and of one hundred and fifty
persons in the several counties of Howard,
Charles, Calvert, St. Mary's, Kent, Queen
Anne's, Caroline, and Talbot, to be fairly and
impartially selected of the age Aforesaid, by the
said Judges, with special reference to the intel-
ligence, sobriety and integrity Of such persons,
and without the least reference to their politi-
cal opinion; and of the names of such persons
when SO selected a list shall be made, and Ger
tifcate thereto appended by the said Judges,
that said list of names has been duly selected
in conformity with and according to the spirit
and intent of this Act, 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 court are kept
Sec. 2. And be 1t enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 80, 1868.
THOMAS SWAMI,
Governor.
CHAPTER S4S.
AN ACT
To repeal section ffty-eight, of Article sixteen,
of the Code of Public General Laws, under
the title of Chancery Jurisdiction, and to re-
enact the same with amendments.
SEC. l. Be it enacted by the General assembly
Of Maryland, That section ifty-e1ght of Article
sixteen, of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled Chancery Jurisdiction, be and the same
is hereby repealed, and the following section
enacted and substituted therefor:
& SO. Whenever lands lie partly in one coun-
ty and partly in another, or partly in a county
and partly in the city of Baltimore, or when
ever persons proper to be made defendents to
proceedings in chancery, reside some in one
county and some in another, or some in a coun-
ty and some in the city of Baltimore, that court
shall have jurisdiction in which proceedings
shall have been first commenced, provided, that
to property real and personal in the State of
Maryland, beyond the limits of the city of Bal
timore, or county in which such proceedings
shall be instituted, to the prejudice ofany bona
hde purchaser, mortgage, or pledge, until
copy of the bill of complaint, certified under his
official seal by the Clerk of the Court in which
it originated, shall be filed in the Clerks office
of the CouIt of the city of Baltimore, or county
where such property shall be at the time, and
that on receipt of copy of such bill by the
Clerk of such Court it shall be his duty forth
with to enter and index the bill in his chancery
docket, as though it originated in his Court,
and also to state on the docket from what Court
1t came, but not to issue process thereon.
Sc. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 80, 1863.
THOMAS SWAMI,
Governor.