CAROLINE COUNTY. 1637

of each term of the court at which jurors are required to attend, in the
presence of such members of the bar of said court as shall attend, notice
of the time and place having been first given to said bar through the clerk
of said court, to proceed to select from the list last furnished by the clerk
of the county commissioners and from the poll-books of the several election
districts of said county that shall have been returned and filed in the clerk's
office of said court after any general election last held, a list that shall
consist of the names of one hundred and fifty persons in said county,
divided as near as may be between all the election districts thereof, f airly
and impartially selected of the age aforesaid by the judges or judge, with
special reference to the intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such persons
and without the least reference to political opinion, and of the names of
such persons so selected a list shall be made and a certificate appended
thereto by said judges or judge, that the said list of names has been duly
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 said court and
by him preserved as other proceedings of the court are kept.

1890, ch. 28, sec. 3. 1894, ch. 497.

344. When said list of names selected, as directed in the preceding
section, is made and certified, as herein provided for, immediately there-
upon the judges or judge of said court, in the presence of the members
of the bar, as aforesaid, and such other persons who may attend, shall
cause all the names selected and placed on the list, as aforesaid, to be
legibly written on ballots of equal size and of same color and appearance,
which shall be closely folded and placed by said judges or judge with
their or his own hands, immediately before the drawing herein provided
for, into a box of the square of thirty inches," to be procured for that
purpose by the clerk of said court under the direction of said judges or
judge; and the said box shall have eight compartments or drawers which
shall be numbered to correspond with the election districts of said county;
and the names of the persons selected, as aforesaid, shall be placed by
the judges or judge in the said compartments or drawers of said box,
which shall, respectively, bear the numbers of the election districts where
the persons so selected shall, respectively, reside; and after so depositing
the said ballots the said box shall be closed, and the said judges or judge
shall cause the clerk or one of his deputies, whom the said judges or judge
shall designate, and who shall not be present at the writing, folding and
depositing said ballots into the box, as herein directed, to appear before
them or him, and then and there in the presence of said judges or judge
and such other persons as may choose to be present, to draw without look-
ing into the same, from said box, beginning with the compartment con-
taining the names of the first election district, and draw from each com-
partment the number of names appointed by said judges or judge to its
respective district, until forty-eight ballots shall be drawn, and the names
appearing on said ballot as drawn, shall be recorded by the clerk in the
presence of said judges or judge in the order drawn, and therefore the