JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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 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 compartments 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 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 or judges,
who shall announce the number thereon, together with the
name on the list of one hundred and fifty names correspond-
ing 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 order a venire facias, as pro-
vided in said Article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws,
and after the said forty-eight have been so drawn, and the num-
bers thereon and the names corresponding thereto shall have
been recorded as herein provided, the judge or judges shall
place the said forty-eight balls in the compartment of said
box other than the one from which they were drawn, together
with the certified list of one hundred and fifty names, and
shall cause the said box to be closed and locked and kept,
and only opened as provided for in Article 51 of the Code of
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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 talesmen, or
to fill vacancies the judge or judges shall draw from said box
as many balls' as may be necessary therefor, in the same man-
ner as the original forty-eight were drawn.
127 C. No person shall be drawn and summoned again as a
juror in Garrett County until the expiration of two years
from the term of court at which he last served.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Approved April 7, 1900.
CHAPTER 375.
AN ACT to provide for copying and recording marriage
licenses in the Clerk's office of St. Mary's County, from 1794
to 1864.
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When neces-
sary to draw
talesmen.
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