The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-05-20

days before the commencement of each
term of the Circuit Court, at which
jurors are required to attend in the
presence Of such practicing members
OF the Bar, as may choose to be pres
ent, to proceed to select from the lists
last furnished by the Clerk of the
Board of County Commissioners. pro-
vided for in Article 81, Section 6, of
the Code of Public General Laws, and
from the poll book of the several Elec-
tion Districts of the county that shall
be returned and filed in the Clerk 3
office of the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges county, or whenever said roll
books may by law be required to be
filed panel to consist of two hun
dred persons to be fairly and impair
TALLY selected from those on said lists
between the ages of twenty-five and
seventy years to be selected by the
said jury commissioners with special
reference to the intelligence, sobriety
and integrity, of such persons and
without the least reference to their
political opinions, such persons so Sc
lected as jurors shall all be tax payers
and be able to read and write the Eng
lish language, and of the names of
such persons so selected, a list ahall
be made and a copy of such list trans
mitted by such jury commissioners
under their hands and seals to the
judges of the Circuit Court of Prince
Georges county which list shall be
signed by said judges, or by the one
Of them receiving the same, be filed
with the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Prince Georges county, So by
him preserved as other proceedings of
the Court are preserved. And the
said jury commissioners shall each OF
them receive per diem of five dollars
for each day they are actually engag-
ed in the performance OF the duties
hereby imposed upon them, compensa-
tion to be paid by the county commits
sioners of Prince Georges county, up.
on an order signed by one of the
JUDI ges of the circuit court for that
county.
SECTION 2. And be it further en-
acted, That Section 178, of Article II,
of Public Local Laws, be and the me
is hereby repealed and reenacted so as
to read as follows:
ITS, When the list of names select.
ed, as above prescribed in Section
l77A. of said Article, is made and
certified to the Judge or Judges Of the
circuit court, the said Judge or Judges
in the presence of the members of the
Bar and such persons as may think
proper to be present, shall cause all
the names selected and placed on the
list to be legibly written upon ballots,
which shall be of equal size and of the
same color and appearance, and shall
be closely rolled or folded, and placed
by the said judge, with his own hands,
Immediately before the drawing pro-
vided for by law, into a cubiform box,
with sliding top, of the square of
eight inches, to be provided for that
purpose by the clerk of said court,
under direction of the said judge, and
after so depositing said ballots the
said box shall be closed, and the said
judge shall then cause the clerk or one
of his deputies, whom the said judge
shall designate, neither the one nor
the other who may be 50 required to
act, to be present at the writing, roll
ing md folding and depositing said
ballots INTO lhe box, as herein directed
to appear before him, and then and
there, in the presence of the said judge
and such other persons as may choose
to be present, after we'll and thorough
ly shaking said box so that the ballots
be we'll mixed, to draw from said box,
through such an opening or aperture