Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-14
(iHAPTER l55.
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An Act to add an additional Section to Ar
ticle Eleven of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Frederick County" subtitle
Jurors" to come in after Section 2SS,
and to be known as Section 2SS A, re.
lating to the method of drawing Jurors
in Frederick County, and repeating all
laws in conflict Herewith.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That an additional
section be added to Article Eleven of the
Code of Public Local Laws, title "Freder-
lex County," subtitle Jurors to come IN
after Section 2SS, and to be known as Sec.
ton 2s8 A, relating to the method of draw
ing Jurors in "Frederick County," and re.
pealing all laws in conflict Herewith
SECTION 2SS A. In Frederick County there
shall be procured by the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court jury box of convenient size,
which shall be divided into as many com
partments as there may be from time to
time, Election Districts in said County, and
which compartments shall be numbered to
correspond with the districts of the county,
and the pames of the persons selected by
the Judges of the Circuit Court for said
county, in the manner prescribed in Arti
Gle fifty-one of the Code of Public Gener-
al Laws, title "Jurors" shall be placed by
said Judges in said compartments of said
box respectively, which bear the number Of
the districts where the persons 80 selected
respectively reside; and it shall be the duty
of the said Judges when selecting the pan
el of two hundred persons, as provided for
IN Section Seven of said Article fifty-one
of the Code of Public General Laws, to Sc.
lect twenty-five of said names from cleo.
ton district number two, and the remain.
ing one hundred and seventy-five names
from the remaining election districts of the
county, equally as nearly as possible, and
there shall then be drawn in the manner
provided in said Article fifty-one for the
other counties, nine names from compart-
ment number two, and the other thirty nine
names necessary to make up the full num-
Der of forty-eight, shall then be drawn from
the remaining compartments SO that at
least one and not more than two names
shall be drawn from each OF said other
compartments, the said Judges designating
from which of said compartments, but one
name shall be drawn. Provided, that in
drawing the Jurors for the December term
of the Circuit Court for said County, the
twenty-five names required shall be taken
from those remaining in the box after the
drawing of the preceding August term five
to be drawn from the compartment mum
Der two, and one from each of the other
compartments. 80 long as there are twenty.
one election districts in said county, and
whenever the number of election districts
in said county shall exceed twenty one,
then five names shall be drawn from said
compartment number two, and the remain
ing twenty shall be made by drawing up
one from each of twenty other districts to
be designated by the said Judges; and no
name which may be so drawn to serve as
regular juror in frederick County" at
any term of Court shall be replaced in said
box for the period of two years thereafter {;
and that all laws inconsistent with this
section are hereby appealed.
SECTION 2. And be 1t enacted, that this
Act shall take effect from the date Of its
passage.
Approved April 2nd. 1896.
LLOYD LOWNDEs.
Governor.
WILLIAM CABELL BRUCE,
President of the Senate.
SYDNEY E. MUDD,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Office of the
Secretary of the Senate.
l hereby certify that the aforegoing is
true COPY of an Act of the General Assem-.
bly, of Maryland, passed at the January
Session, 1896.
j. ROGER Mc6HERRY,
apr303t Secretaryof the Senate