1126 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 21

drawing of the jury for the next succeeding jury term of
the Circuit Court for Allegany county, and a certified
copy thereof shall be recorded among the minutes of the
term of said Court at which such selection took place.

"178 B. Instead of causing the names to be written
upon ballots and placed in and drawn from a box as pro-
vided in section 8, of Article 51, of the Code of Public
General Laws, the judge or judges of said court may, in
his or their discretion in lieu thereof, require the clerk
of said court to provide a box of sufficient dimensions
and to have the same divided into two compartments:
and further, to provide two hundred white balls, each of
the same size, plainly and clearly marked with numbers
from 1 to 200, respectively, which said balls shall be
placed in one compartment of said box and thoroughly
shaken and well mixed and after the list of two hundred
names shall have been selected and certified to as pro-
vided 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 present
at the selection of the said list of two hundred 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 com-
partment in which said balls have been placed, through the
opening made by removing the sliding top thereof as will
only conveniently admit the hand, and without in any
many 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 or judges who
shall announce the number thereon together with the
name on the list of two hundred names corresponding to
said number so drawn, and the said forty-eight names
corresponding 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
thereupon the said judge or judges shall forthwith or-
der a venire facias as provided in said Article 51, 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 corresponding thereto shall have