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Proceedings of the Senate, 1900
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1900.] OF THE SENATE. 1481

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 judge8
shall then cause the clerk or one of his deputies, whom
the said judge or judges shall designate, either the one
or the other who may be so required to act, to be present
at the selection of 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
way 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 w3.th 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 there-
on and the names corresponding thereto shall have
been recorded as herein provided, the judge or judges
shall place the said forty-eight halls in the compartment
of said box other than the one from which they were
drawn, together with the certified list of two hundred
names, and shall cause the said box to be closed and
locked, and kept and only opened as provided for in
Article 31, of the Code of Public General Laws; provided,
however, that if for any of the reasons mentioned in
Article 51, 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 therefor, in the same manner
as the original forty-eight were drawn.


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