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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

in said county, said sections to follow Section one hun-
dred and twenty-seven, and to be designated as Sections
127A, 127B and127C.

Garrett Co.
Jurors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That three new sections be and the same are hereby
added to Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Garrett County," sub-title "Jurors," to follow Sections one
hundred and twenty-seven, to be designated as Sections
127A, 127B and I27C, and to read as follows:

Manner of
selecting
Jurors.

127A. When selecting the list of one hundred and fifty
names for Garrett County as provided for in Section seven of
Article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws, the judge or
judges of the Circuit Court for Garrett County 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 pro-
portion to one hundred and fifty that the registered vote of
said district 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 hunded and fifty, inclu-
sive, 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 51 of the Code of Public General
Laws, it shall be placed in the box hereinafter provided for
by Section 127B, 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 min-
utes of the term of said Court at which such selection took
place.

How names
of Jurors
shall be
drawn.

127 B. Instead of causing the names to be written upon
ballots and placed in and drawn from a box, as provided in
Section eight 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 pro-
vide a box of sufficient dimensions, and to have the same
divided into two compartments, and further, 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
of the compartments 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