The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-06-16
CHAPTER 4lO.
To.
AN ACT

To repeal section one aud six Of chap.
ter three hundred aud tweUty-nine
of the Acts Of the General Assembly
OF Maryland, passed at January ses-
sion eighteen hundred andsixty seven,
entitled an act 10 provide for the Sc.
lection. drawing and summoniug Of
jurors in the several counties and
prescribing their qualifications, and
10 re enact the same with amend
ments.
Sec. l. And be it enacted by the
General Assembly Of Maryland, That
sections one and six of chapter three
hundred and twenty niue Of the Acts
of Assembly of Maryland, passed at
January session eighteen hundred and
sixiy.seyen, entitled an Act to provide
for the selection, drawing and summon.
ing Of jurors in the several counties and
prescribing their qualifications be and
the same are hereby repealed aud re en-.
acted SO as TO read as follows;
Sec. /. BE il euacted by the Gen
cral Assembly of Maryland, That it
shall be the duty Of the Clerk Of the
County Commissioners for each of the
counties of this State, to nuke out and
file with the Clerk Of the Circuit Courts
for said counties, not less than twenty
days before the beginning of the FIRST
regular term of said Courts next eusu.
ing the passage Of this Act, and not
lc than twenty days before the begin
ming of the second regular term of SAID
Courts after e3ch aud every general
election held thereaffer, fair aud com
plete list of the white male taxable in4
habitants or residents Of said county,
whose names appear on the tax books
of said county, aud who are not known
to said Clerk to be under the age Of
twenty five years, aud to which said
lists SO to be made and filed, the said
Clerks respectively, shall append Ger.
tiicate that said list is fully aud fairly
made, and for making such list the said
Clerk shall receive such compensation
as the County Commissioners shall deem
right and proper, aud for fiilure to per-
form the duty hereby imposed, the said
Clerk to 5 id commissioners shall for.
felt aud pay fne to the State of not
less than five hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars, in the dis.
erection Of the Court, to be recovered by
indictment as for u mas sdemeanor, aud
he shall be thenceforth wholly incapa.
BILE of holding or exercising the duties
ofthc said Clerk to the County Commits.
sioners
G: And be it enacted, That the name
of no person disqualified or exempted
by existing law from serving as juror,
or who by existing law the Sheriff is
forbidden to summon as such, shall be
selected aud placed upon the panel or
list from which the drawing is to be
made as directed by this Act, nor shall
any person be drawn aud summoned to
two Courts successiyely, but the solec
ton or drawing of any person disquuli.
fed as juror under this Act shall not
invali1ate the drawing or selection, but
such error may be corrected by drawing
another person from the box 10 place Of
the person improperly selected or drawn,
and the said Court shall have ial power
aud authority to coerce the attendance
of fjurors drawn and summoned uuder
this Act, and to punish by fine aud i'm
prisonment, or both, for any default or
contempt committed in disregarding such
summons.
Sec. = And be ii enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date
Of its p ssage.
Approved April 4, 1870.
ODEN BOWIE.
Governor.