WICOMICO COUNTY. 5019

on said list to be legibly written on ballots of equal size and of the same
color and appearance, which shall be closely folded and placed by said
judges with their own hands, immediately before the drawing herein pro-
vided for, into a cubiform box of the square of twenty-four inches, to be
procured for that purpose by the clerk of said court under the direction
of said judges; and the said box shall have as many compartments or draw-
ers as there are election districts of the county, and which shall be num-
bered to correspond with said election districts; and the names of the per-
sons selected as aforesaid shall be placed by the judges in the said com-
partments or drawers of said box, which shall respectively bear the num-
bers of the districts where the persons so selected shall respectively reside;
and after so depositing the said ballots the said box shall 'be closed, and
the judges shall cause the clerk or one of his deputies, whom the judges
shall designate, and who shall not be present at the writing, folding and
depositing of said ballots into the box as herein directed, to appear before
them, and then and there, in the presence of said judges and such other
persons as may choose to be present, to draw, from each compartment of
said box, without looking into the same, beginning with the compartment
containing the names from the first election district and so on in succes-
sion, the number of names apportioned by the said judges to each district
until forty-eight ballots shall be drawn; and the names appearing on said
ballots as drawn shall be recorded by the clerk in the presence of said
judges in the order drawn, and thereupon the judges shall order a venire
facias, directed to the sheriff of said county, commanding him to summon
as jurors to attend at the next ensuing jury term of said court the several
persons whose names shall be drawn as aforesaid; and if any such per-
sons are dead or sick, or otherwise unable to attend, or returned non est
by the sheriff, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to immediately return the
fact to said judges, who shall thereupon cause to be drawn from said box,
in the manner directed, other names in the place or stead of the original
who may be dead, disabled or absent, and shall have the name of such
persons so last aforesaid drawn, inserted in the said venire facias, to be
summoned as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff to
summon the persons named and to make return thereof to said court at
the opening of its session.

1916, ch. 640.

96. Whenever a judge, or the judges, of the Circuit Court of the Coun-
ties embraced in the First Judicial Circuit, draws a jury, he or they, after
selecting from the taxables and voters, as required by law, the list of names
to be placed in the box for the drawing, and certifying to the list, shall
cause the names on the list to be numbered, commencing with the first
name thereon, numbering upwards consecutively, and then, instead of re-
quiring the names on the selected list to be written on ballots and placed
in and drawn from the box, the said judge or judges drawing 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