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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

where an election district is divided into precincts, so that
from each election district or precinct there shall be selected,
as near as may be, the number of names having the same pro-
portion to two hundred that the registered vote of said dis-
trict or precinct bears to the entire registered vote of the
county, which said list or panel of two hundred names shall
be numbered from one to two hundred, inclusive, and when
the said list of two hundred 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 178B, until the
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.

How names of
jurors shall
be drawn.

178B. 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 provide a box of sufficient dimen-
sions, 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 one
to two hundred, 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 provided in the preced-
ing 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 persons as may choose to
be present, to draw from the compartment 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 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