ART. 50.] JURIES.

ter, Worcester and Somerset, and of one hundred
and fifty persons in the several counties of Howard,
Charles, Calvert, St. Mary's, Kent, Queen Anne's,
Caroline and Talbot, to be fairly and impartially
selected of the age aforesaid by the said judges
with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety
and integrity of such persons, and without the least
reference to their political opinion, and of the names
of such persons when so selected a list shall be made,
and a certificate thereto appended by the said judges,
that said list of names has been duly selected, in
conformity with and according to the spirit and
intent of this act, and which said lists and certificates
shall be filed with the clerks of the said courts and
by them preserved as other proceedings of the said
courts are kept.

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21. When said list of names selected as directed
in the preceding section, is made and certified, as.
therein provided for, immediately thereupon the said
judge of the said respective courts, in the presence
of the members of the bar as aforesaid, and such
other persons as may think proper to be present,
shall cause all the names selected and placed on the
list as aforesaid, to be legibly written upon ballots,
which shall be of equal size and of the same color
and appearance, and shall be closely rolled or folded,
and placed by the said judge with his own hands
immediately before the drawing herein provided for,
into a cubiform box with sliding top, of the square
of eight inches, to be procured for that purpose by
the clerk of said court, under the direction of the

Ibid K 3.
Duties of
judges of
respective
courts.

said judge, and after so depositing said ballots, the
said box shall be closed and the said judge shall then
cause the clerk or one of his deputies whom the said
judge shall designate, neither the one nor the other
who may be so required to act, to be present at the
writing, rolling or folding and depositing said ballots
into the box, as herein directed, to appear before
him, and then and there in the presence of the said
judge, and such other persons as may choose to be

Drawing or
names from
ballot box.