The Republican., 1900-03-29
THE NEW JURY LAW.
Text of the Bill Recently Passed by the
Legislature Regulating the Manner
of Drawing Jurors for This
County.


us with copy of the law recently
enacted by the Legislature regulating
the manner of drawing jurors for
service at the Circuit Court for this
county. The law is in effect the
same as the one passed for Allegany
county and has the endorsement of
Chief Judge A. Hunter Boyd, and is
as follows:
SECTION i. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
thr new sections be and the same
are hereby added to Article II of the
Cod of Public Local Laws, title
Garrett County, subtitle Jurors,
to follow Section 127, to be designated
as Sections 127A, 127B and 127C and
to read as follows:
127A. When selecting the list of
one hundred and fifth names for Gar
rett county as provided for in Section
of Article 81 of the Code of Public
General Laws, the Judge or Judges
of the Circuit Court for Garrett cOun-
ty drawing the jury for said county
shall apportion the names of the
panel of one hundred and fifty among
the several election districts, so that
from each election district there shall
be selected as near as may be the
number of names having the same
proportion to one hundred and fifty
that the registered vote of said dis
trict bears to the entire registered
vote Of the county, which said list or
panel of one hundred and fifty names
shall be numbered from one to one
hundred and fifty inclusive, and
when the said list of one hundred
and fifty names shall have been Sc
lected and certified by the Judge or
Judges as provided in said Article 81
of the Code of Public General Laws
it shall be placed in the box herein
after provided for by Section 121B,
until the drawing of the Jury for the
next succeeding jury term of the Cir
cult Court for Garrett county, and
certified copy thereof shall be record
ed among the minutes of the term of
said court at which such selection
took place.
127B. Instead of causing the
names to be written upon ballots and
placed in and drawn from box as
provided in Section 8 of Article 81 of
the Code of Public General Laws the
Judge or Judges of said court may
in his or their discretion in lieu there
of require the Clerk of said court to
provide box of sufficient dimensions
and tU have the same divided into
two compartments, and further to
provide one hundred and fifty white
bells each of the same size plainly
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one to one hundred and fifty respect
lively, which said balls shall be placed
in one compartment of said box and
thoroughly shaken and well mixed
and after the list of one hundred and
fifty names shall have been selected
and certified to, as provided in the
preceding section, the said Judge or
Judges shall then cause the clerk or
one of his deputies, whom the said
Judge or Judges shall designate,
neither the one nor the other who
may be so required to act, to be pres
ent at the selection of said list of one
hundred and fifty names, to appear
before him or them and then and
there in the presence of the said
Judge or Judges and such other per-
sons as may choose to be present, to
draw from the compartment in which
said balls have been placed, through
the opening made by removing the
sliding top thereof as will only con-
veniently admit the hand, and with
out in any manner looking into said
box, one by one, forty eight of said
balls, and as each of said balls are
drawn from said box it shall be hand
ed to the said Judge or Judges who
shall announce the number thereon
together with the name on the list of
one hundred and fifty names cores
ponding to said number so drawn,
and the said forty-eight names cores
ponding to the forty eight numbers
so drawn shall with said numbers be
duly recorded by said Judge or Judges
or by the Clerk in their presence and
under their direction in the order in
which they shall be drawn, and there
upon the said Judge or Judges shall
forthwith order a Ue1lire fdciaS as
provided in said Article 81 of the
Code of Public General Laws, and
after the said forty-eight balls have
been SO drawn and the numbers
thereon and the names correspond
ing thereto shall have been recorded
as herein provided, the Judge or
Judges shall place the said forty
eight balls in the compartment of
said box other than the one from
which they were drawn, together
with the certified list of one hundred
and fifty names, and shall cause the
said box to be closed and locked and
kept and only opened as provided for
in Article 81 of the Code of Public
General Laws; provided, however,
that if for any of the reasons men
toned in Article 81 of the Code of
Public General Laws it shall become
necessary to draw talismen or to fill
vacancies the Judge or Judges shall
draw from said box as many balls as
may be necessary therefore in the
same manner as the original forty
eight were drawn.
127C. No person shall be drawn
and summoned again as a juror in
Garrett county until the expiration
of two years from the term of Court
at which he last served.
Section 2. And be it enacted that
all acts or parts of acts inconsistent
herewith are hereby repealed.
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