CECIL COUNTY. 1987

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, certify-
ing 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.

1912, ch. 815, sec. 412.

223. When said list of names, selected as directed by the preceding
section of this Act is made and certified as hereinbefore provided, imme-
diately 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 afore-
said, 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 draw-
ers, which shall be numbered to correspond with the numbers of the elec-
tion district in said county and the names of the persons selected as afore-
said 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 desig-
nate, 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, as follows: Six
from drawer number one, six from drawer number two, seven from drawer
number three, five from drawer number four, six from drawer number
five, five from drawer number six, seven from drawer number seven, three
from drawer number eight and three from drawer number nine, and the
names appearing on the ballots so drawn shall be recorded by the clerk
of the said court in the presence of the judge or judges, in the order drawn,
and immediately thereupon said judge or judges shall order a venire facias,
directed to the sheriff of said county, commanding him to summon as