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Supplement to the Maryland Code, 1862
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40 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

city, and shall cause all the names, selected by the judges as
aforesaid, to be inscribed upon ballots, which shall be of equal
size, color and appearance, and shall be closely folded, and shall
be placed by the judges themselves, with their own hands, on
the day of said meeting and immediately before the drawing
herein provided for, in a drawing wheel to be procured for that
purpose by the sheriff of Baltimore city, under the direction of
said judges; the said judges shall then cause the said sheriff, or
such one of his deputies as he shall designate, to appear before
them, and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff, or his said depu-
ty, in the presence of the said judges and of such other person
or persons as may choose to attend, to draw, one by one, from the
said wheel, all the ballots contained therein; and the said judges
shall cause the said wheel to be turned on its axis, before the
commencement of said drawing, after the ballots shall have been
deposited therein, and after the drawing of each ballot and before
the drawing of the next, until the whole of said ballots shall have
been drawn; the names appearing on said ballots, as drawn, shall
be duly recorded by the said judges, or by some person in their
presence and by and under their personal direction and inspec-
tion, in the order in which they shall be drawn as aforesaid;
which the said judges shall certify at the foot of said list to have
been done.

33. Any officer, deputy or person whatsoever, who shall fraud-
ulently mark, or designate, or open, or leave open, or cause or
knowingly permit to be marked or designated, or opened or left
open, any ballot or ballots for jurors, which shall be prepared for
the purpose of being drawn under this article, or who by any
fraudulent contrivance, device or collusion whatsoever, shall
prepare, or arrange, or cause or knowingly permit to be prepared
or arranged any ballot or ballots aforesaid, so that the same or
any thereof may be known or recognized in the drawing thereof,
or for the purpose of their being so known or recognized; and
any person or persons who shall in any way fraudulently or col-
lusively deal, or conspire, or contrive to deal with the ballots
aforesaid, or any of them, or the drawing thereof, or with the
preparation or folding of said ballot or ballots, or with the wheel
aforesaid, so that the fair operation and lawful and impartial ex-




 

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