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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

counties, except Baltimore county, placed by the
said Judges with their own hands immediately
before the drawing herein provided for, into a cubi-

Description of
boxes.

form box with sliding top, of the square of eight
inches, to be procured for that purpose by the Clerk
of said Court, under the direction of the said
Judges, and after so depositing said ballots, the
said box shall be closed, and the said Judges shall
then cause the Clerk or one of his deputies, whom
the said Judges shall designate, neither one nor the
other who may be so required to act to be present at
the writing, rolling or folding and depositing said
ballots into the box as herein directed, to appeal-
before them and then and there, in the presence of
the said Judges, and such other persons as may
choose to be present, after well and thoroughly
shaking said box, so that the ballots be well mixed,

Manner of
drawing.

to draw from said box through such opening made
by removing the sliding top thereof, as will only
conveniently admit the hands, and without in any
manner looking into said box, one by one, forty-
eight of said ballots, and the name appearing on

Number
drawn.

said ballots as drawn shall be duly recorded by the
said Judges, or by the Clerk, in his presence and
under his direction, in the order in which they
shall be drawn; and in Baltimore county a box
shall be procured as aforesaid, of the form afore-
said, and of the square of ......... inches, and said
box shall be divided into thirteen compartments,
which shall be numbered to correspond with the
districts of the said county, and the names of the
persons selected as aforesaid shall be placed by the
said Judges in the said compartments of said box
respectively, which bear the numbers of the dis-
tricts where the persons so selected respectively
reside, and there shall be then drawn in the man-
ner hereinbefore provided for the other counties,
five names from compartment number one, three

Districts.

from number two, five from number three, three
from number four, two from number five, three
from number six, three from number seven, five
from number eight, six from nine, to from number
ten, three from number eleven, six from number
twelve, and two from number thirteen, and said
names so drawn shall be recorded as hereinbefore
directed, and thereupon the said Judges shall forth-
with order a venire facias, directed to the sheriff