The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-05-12
LAWS--CENE RAL
PASSED NY 1Hg
General Assembly Of Maryland
II he January Session, 1870.
Published ny AUTHORITY.
[CnAPTEG 220.

for the selection, drawing aud summoning
Of Jurors IN the several counties and pre-
scribiug their qualification and nlso sec
ton two of an Act passed and approved
March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
sixty.eight, chapter three hundred and
sixteen, entitled an Act to repeal section
two of an Act passed March twenty first,
eighteen hundred and sixty.seven, chap.
ter three hundred and twenty nine, emit.
tied an Act to provide for the selection,
drawing and summoning Of jurors in the
several counties and prescribing their
qualifications, and re enact the same with
amendments, and to re enact the said
sections two and three with amendments.
Sec. /. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, That section two OF
an Act passed aud approved March thirtieth,
eighteen hundred aud sixty eight, chapter
three hundred and sixteen, entitled an Act
to repeal section two fan Net passed March
twenty first, 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 aud prescribing their
qualifications, and 10 re enact the same with
amendments, and section three of the said
original Act, passed March twenty first,
eighteen hundred and sixty seven, chapter
three hundred aud twenty nine, entitled an
Act TO provide for the selection, drawing
aud summoning of jurors in the several
counties aud presiding their qualifications,
be and the same are hereby repealed and
re'enacted to read as follows
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the Judges of the Circuit
Courts for each ofthe 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
practising 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 ii ON the lists last fur.
nished by the Clerks of the County Com
misSioners provided for in the first section
OF tins Act, aud from the poll books of the
several election districts of said counties,
that shall be returned and filed in the Clerks
Office OF said Courts after any general cleo
ton that may be last held previously to such
selection. panel TO consist OF the names
of two hundred persons in the several coun.
ties of Baltimore, Washington, Montaome.
ry, Allegany, Carroll, Frederick. Anne
Arundel, Prince Georges, Hartford, Cecil,
Dorchester, and Of one hundred and iiny
persons in the several counties of Howard.
Worcester, Somerset, Charles, Calvert, St,
Mary's Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline and
Talbot, to be fairly aud impartially selected
of the age aforesaid, by the said Judges,
with special reference to the intelligence,
sobrlely and integrity of such persons and
with the least reference TO their political
opinion, and of the names of such persons
When so selected, a list shall be made, and
certificate thereto appended by the said
Judges, that the said list of names has been
duly selected in conformity with and accor.
ding TO the spirit and intent Of this Act and
which said lists and certificates shall be filed
with the Clerks Of said Courts, and by them
preserved as other proceedings of the said
Courts are kept
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That when said list of
names, selected as directed in the preceding
section, is made and certified as therein
provided for, Immediately thereupon the
SAID judges OF the said respective Courts,
IN the presence of the members Of the bar
as aforesaid, and such other persons as may
think proper to be present, shall cause all
the names selected and placed on the list as
aforesaid, to be legibly written upon ballots,
which shall be of equal size aud of the same
color aud appearance, aud shall be closely
rolled or folded, and ia each of the counties
except baltimore county, placed by the
said Judges with their own hands, immedi.
ately before the drawing herein provided
for, into a cubitorm box with sliding ton of
the square OF eight inches, to be procured
for that purpose by the Clerk of said Court
under the direction of the said Judges, and
after SO depositing said ballots the said box
shall be closed and the said Judges shall
then cause the Clerk or one of his deputies,
whom the said Judges shall designate, Meth.
er one or the other who may be so required
to act, to be present at the writing, rolling
or folding and depositing said ballots into
the box as herein directed, to appear before
them, and then and there in the presence of
the said Judges and such other persons as
may choose to be present, after well and
thoroughly shaking said box so that the
ballots be well mixed, to draw from said
box through such opening made by remoy.
ing the slidingtop thereof, as will only conye.
niently admit the hands, and without in anu
manner looking into the said box, one by
one, forty.eight of said ballots, and the name
appearing ON said ballots as drawn shall be
duly recorded by the said Judges, or by the
Clerk in his presence and under his direc
ton, in the order in which they shall he
drawn, and in Baltimore county box shall
be procured as aforesaid, of the form afore.
said and Of the square of-inches, and
said box shall be divided into thirteen com.
partments, which shall be numbered to cor.
respond with the districts of the said county,
and the names of the persons selected as
aforesaid shall be placed by the said Judges
IN the said compartments of said box re
spectively, which bear the numbers Of the
district where the persons SO selected re.
pectively reside, ard there shall be then
drawn in the manner hereinbefore provided
for the other counties, five names from
Compartment No. /, three from No. 2. five
from No. 3, three from No. 4, two from
No. 3, three from No. G, three from No. 7.
hive from No s, six from No Q, two from
No. 10, three from No. IL, six from No.
IL, and two from No. 10, and said names
so drawn shall be recorded MS hereinbefore
directed, and thereupon the said Judges
shall forthwith order UeRire fdcids. direct.
ed to the Sheriff of the said counties re-.
spectively, commanding them to summon
as jurors to attend at the next ensuing term
oil said Courts, the several persons whose
names may be drawn as aforesaid, and If
any such persons whose names are so drawn
ana embraced in said peaire .facias should
be dead, sick, or otherwise unable to attend.
or should be absent and therefore not to he
found, It shall be the duty of said sheriff
forthwith TO return the fact of such death,
disability or absence, and the said judges
shall therenpon cause to be drawn from
said box in the manner hereinbefore direct.
ed other names in the place and stead of
the original, who mpy be dead, disabled or
absent, and shall cause the name or names
OF sueh person or persons SO as last afore.
sad drawn, to be inserted in the said penire