JURIES. 1889
looking into said box one by one, 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. Y, 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 circuit
court a jury box of convenient size, which shall be divided into as many
compartments as there may from time to time be election districts in said
county, and which compartments shall be numbered to correspond with the
districts of the county, and the names of the persons 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 hundred 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 whenever 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
which may be so drawn to serve as a regular juror in Frederick county at
any term of court shall be replaced in said box for the period of two years
thereafter.
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