PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
1585
Election District, twenty-two; from the Seventh Election Dis-
trict, thirty; from the Eighth Election District, ten; from the
Ninth Election District, eleven, and of the names of the persons
so selected, and the respective districts from which they have
been selected, a list shall be made, and a certificate appended
thereto by said judge or judges, certifying that said list of
names have been selected in conformity with and according to
the spirit of this act, and the said list and certificate shall be
filed with the clerk of the said court and by him be preserved
as other proceedings of the said court are kept.
412. When said list of names, selected as directed by the
preceding section of this act is made and certified as herein-
before provided, immediately thereupon the judge or judges of
said court, in the presence of the members of the Bar as
aforesaid, and such other persons as may attend, shall cause all
the names selected and placed on the list as aforesaid, to be
legibly written on ballots of the same size, and the same color
and appearance, which shall be closely folded and placed by
said judge or judges with their own hands into a box, to be
procured for the purpose by the clerk of said court, under the
direction of the judge or judges of said court, which box shall
have a length of not exceeding thirty-six inches, width not
exceeding eight inches and depth not exceeding five inches, and
its length shall be divided into nine equal compartments fitted
with drawers, which shall be numbered to correspond with
the numbers of the election district in said county and the
names of the persons selected as aforesaid shall be placed in
said drawers as follows: The twenty-five names selected from
the First District, in number one; the twenty-five names from
the Second District in number two; the thirty names from the
Third District in number three; the twenty-two names from
the Fourth District in number four; the twenty-five names
from the Fifth District in number five; the twenty-two names
from the Sixth District in number six; the thirty names from
the Seventh District in number seven; the ten names -from the
Eighth District in number eight, and the eleven names from
the Ninth District in number nine; and after so depositing said
ballots the said box shall be closed, and the judge or judges shall
cause the clerk of said court, or one of his deputies, whom the
judge or judges shall designate, and who shall not have been
present at the writing, folding and depositing of said ballots
into the box, as herein directed, to appear for him or them,
and then and there, in the presence of said judge or judges
and such other persons as may choose to be present, to draw,
without looking into the same, from said box forty-eight names,
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