The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-26
CHAPTER 374.

AN ACT to add three new sections to Ar
ticle T. of the Code of Public Local Laws
title Garrett County, subtitle Jurors"
providing for the selection and drawing
OF jurors in said county, said sections to
follow Section 127 and to be designated
as Sections l27A, l27B and 127C
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That three new sec
tlonS be and the same are hereby added to
Article IL of the Code of Public Local Laws
title Garrett County," subtitle Jurors
to follow Section l27 to be designated as Sec
tions 127A, 127B and 127C and to read as fol
lows:
l27A. When selecting the list of one hun
dred and fifty names for Garrett county, as
provided for in Section of Article 81 OF the
Code of Public General Laws. the iudpe 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 Dropor-
ton to one hundred and fifty that the regis
tered vote of said district bears to the entire
registered vote of the county, which said
list or panel of one hundred and fifty names
snail be numbered from one to one hundred
ana fifty inclusive, and when the said list of
one hundred and fifty names shall have been
selected 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 hereinafter provided for by Section
l2IB until the drawing of the jury for the
next succeeding jury term of the circuit
court for Garrett county, and a certified
copy thereof shall be recorded among the
minutes of the term Of said court at which
such selection took place.
l27B. Instead of causing the names to be
written upon ballots and placed in and
Drawn from box as provided in Section
of Article 81 of the Code of Public General
Laws the judge or judges of said court may
i'll his or their discretion, in lieu thereof re
quire the clerk of said court to provide box
of sufficient dimensions and to have the same
divided into two compartments, and fur
ther, to provide one hundred and fifty white
balls. each of the same siZe plainly and
clearly marked with numbers from one to
one hundred and fifty, respectively, which
said balls shall be placed in one compart-
ment 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 OF 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 present at the selec-
tion of the 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 persons as
may choose to be present. to draw from the
compartment in which said balls have been
placed, through the opening made by re-
moving the sliding top thereof as will only
conveniently admit the hand, and without
III 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 handed to the said judge OF judges who
Shall announce the number thereon together
with the name on the list of one hundred
and fifty names corresponding to said num-
Der so drawn. and the said fOrty-eight names
corresponding to the forty eight numbers so
drawn shall with said numbers be duly re
corded by said judge or judges or by the
clerk IN their presence and under their di-
rection i'll the order in which they shall be
QfaWn, and thereupon the said judge or
Judges shall forthwith order a venire faciaS
as provided in Article 81 OF the Code of Pub
nc General Laws, and after the said forty
elSht balls have been SO drawn and the
numbers thereon and the names correspond
ing thereto shall have been recorded as here
IN provided the judge or judges shall place
the said forty-eight balls in the compart-
ment OF said box other than the one from
certified list of one hundred and fifty names,
ana shall cause the said box to be closed
ana locked and kept and only opened as pro-
Y1ded FOR i'll Article 81 of the Code of Public
General Laws; provided. however, that If
Tor any of the reasons mentioned in Article
5l OF the Code of Public General Laws it shall
become necessary to draw talesmen or fill
vacancies the judge or judges shall draw
from said box as many balls as may be
necessary therefor in the same manner as
the original forty eight were drawn.
l21C. No person shall be drawn and sum
moned again as juror in Garrett county
until the expiration Of two years from the
term OF court at which he last served.
SEC. And be it enacted. That all Acts or
parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed.
Approved April :, 1900.