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districts so that from each election district there shall be selected as near
as may be the number of names having the same proportion to one hun-
dred and fifty that the registered vote of said district bears to the entire
registered vote of the county, which said list or panel of one hundred
and fifty names shall be numbered from one to one hundred and fifty,
inclusive, and when the said list of one hundred and fifty names shall have
been selected and certified by the judge or judges as provided in said
Article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws, it shall be placed in the
box hereinafter provided for by Section 227, until the drawing of the
jury for the next succeeding jury term of the Circuit Court for Garrett
County, and a certified copy thereof shall be recorded among the minutes
of the term of said Court at which such selection took place.

1900, ch. 374, sec. 127B. 1914, ch. 837, sec. 127B.

227. Instead of causing the names to be written upon ballots and placed
in and drawn from a box, as provided in Section 8 of Article 51 of the
Code of Public General Laws, the Judge or Judges of said Court may
in his or their discretion in lieu thereof require the Clerk of said Court
to provide a box of sufficient dimensions, and to have the same divided
into two compartments, and further, to provide one hundred and fifty
white balls, each of the same size, plainly and clearly marked with num-
bers from one to one hundred and fifty, respectively, which said balls shall
be placed in one of the compartments of said box and thoroughly shaken
and well mixed, and after the list of one hundred and fifty names shall
have been selected and certified to, as provided in the preceding Section
the said Judge or Judges shall then cause the Clerk or one of his deputies,
whom the said Judge or Judges shall designate, neither the one nor the
other who may be so required to act to be present at the selection of the
said list of one hundred and fifty names, to appear before 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 from the compartment in
which said balls have been placed, through the opening made by remov-
ing the sliding top thereof as will only conveniently admit the hand and
without in any manner looking into said box, one by one forty-eight of
said balls, and as each of said halls is drawn from said box, it shall be
handed to the said Judge or Judges, who shall announce the number
thereon, together with the name on the list of one hundred and fifty names
corresponding to said number so drawn, and the said forty-eight names
corresponding to the forty-eight numbers so drawn shall with said num-
bers be duly recorded by said Judge or Judges, or by the Clerk or one of
his deputies in their presence and under their direction, and in the order
in which they shall be drawn.

1900, ch. 374, sec. 127C. 1914, ch. 837, sec. 127C.

228. Of the forty-eight jurors so drawn, as provided in the preceding
Section, the Judge or Judges on the day on which they were so drawn shall
select and appoint one as the foreman of the grand jury at the next ensu-