SOMERSET COUNTY. 4437

the jury, in his or their discretion, and option and in lieu of such written
ballots, may cause the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County wherein
they are to be used to provide a number of white marbles or balls, each
of the same size and plainly marked with numbers from one consecutively
upwards to the highest number on the selected list of names certified to
by said judge or judges, which said marbles or balls shall be placed in
the box from which drawings are made in the case where ballots are used;
where the drawings are made by districts, the marbles or balls shall be
deposited in the District compartments in such way that their numbers
shall correspond, in each district, with the names on the judge's or judges'
selected list and the numbers thereof; the said judge, or judges, shall then
cause the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County in which the drawing
is being made, 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 names or the numbering of
the same, to appear before him or them, and then and there in the pres-
ence of the said judge or judges, and such other persons as may choose
to attend, to draw from the box in which the balls are placed, in the same
order and way that ballots would be drawn, without in any way looking
into said box, one by one forty-eight of said marbles or balls, and as each
marble or ball is drawn from the box it shall be handed to the judge or
judges, who shall announce the number thereon and the name on the said
selected and certified list whose number corresponds therewith; and the
forty-eight names corresponding by numbers to the forty-eight numbers on
the marbles or balls so drawn and the said numbers, shall be duly recorded
in the presence of the said judge or judges, who shall forthwith ord&r a
venire facias for the persons whose names have been so drawn. The forty-
eight marbles or balls drawn shall be sealed up safely, and preserved by
the Clerk; the marbles or balls that were not drawn shall remain in the
box, or boxes, wherein they were deposited, which shall be locked or sealed,
to be used in filling vacancies that may occur in the jury, in the same way
they might be filled if the drawing had been made by ballots. The intent
and meaning of this Act is not to supersede or repeal the laws now regu-
lating the drawing of juries by ballot, but simply to provide another way
of drawing them, leaving the judges in said Judicial Circuit free to use
either the ballot system or the marble or ball system as may be most con-
venient and satisfactory to the judge or judges drawing a jury.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 20, sec. 132. 1872, ch. 57. 1874, chs. 43 and 461. 1876. ch. 117.

1878, chs. 45, 186 and 389. 1880, ch. 146. 1882, ch. 306. 1888, ch. 87.

1896, ch. 386. 1898, chs. 140 and 160. 1904, chs. 74

and 161. 1906, ch. 12,

213. There shall be the following number of justices of the peace and
constables for Somerset County, to wit: For each and every election dis-
trict in said county not less than one nor more than three justices of the