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1272 JURIES. [ART. 51
forty-eight of said ballots, and the names appearing on said ballots as
drawn shall be duly recorded by said judges or by the clerk, in their
presence and under their direction, in the order in which they shall
be drawn.
In Baltimore county a box shall be procured, as aforesaid, of the
form aforesaid, and of sufficient size, and said box shall be divided
into fifteen 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 the said box, respectively, which bear the numbers of the districts
where the persons so selected respectively reside, and there shall be
then drawn in the manner hereinbefore provided for the other counties
four names from compartment No. 1, three from No. 2, four from No.
3, three from No. 4, two from No. 5, three from No. 6, three from No.
7, four from No. 8, four from No. 9, two from No. 10, three from No.
11, four from No. 12, two from No. 13, two from No. 14 and four
from No. 15.
In Frederick county there shall be procured by the clerk of the cir-
cuit court a jury box of convenient size, which shall be divided into
as many compartments as there may from time to time be election dis-
tricts in said county, and which compartments shall be numbered to
correspond with the districts of the county, and the names of the per-
sons selected by the judges of the circuit court for said county, in the
manner prescribed in this article, shall be placed by said judges in
said compartments of said box, respectively, which bear the numbers
of the districts where the persons so selected, respectively, reside; and
it shall be the duty of said judges when selecting the panel of two
hundred persons as provided for in section 7, to select twenty-five of
said names from Election District No. 2, and the remaining one hun-
dred and seventy-five names from the remaining election districts of
the county, equally as nearly as possible, and there shall then be drawn
in the manner provided in this article for the other counties nine
names from compartment No. 2, and the other thirty-nine names
necessary to make up the full number of forty-eight shall then be drawn
from the remaining compartments, so that at least one and not more
than two names shall be drawn from each of said other compartments,
the said judges designating from which of said compartments but one
name shall be drawn; provided, that in drawing the jurors for the
December term of the circuit court for said county the twenty-five
names required shall be taken from those remaining in the box after
the drawing of the preceding August term, five to be drawn from the
compartment No. 2, and one from each of the other compartments, so
long as there are twenty-one election districts in said county, and when-
ever the number of election districts in said county shall exceed twenty-
one, then five names shall be drawn from said compartment No. 2 and
the remaining twenty shall be made up by drawing one from each of
twenty other districts, to be designated by said judges; and no name
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