500

Selection from
lists.

CARROLL COUNTY. [ART. 7.

select from the lists last furnished by the clerks of
the county commissioners provided for in the first
section of this act, and from the poll -books of the
several election districts of said counties that shall
be returned to and filed in the clerks office of said
courts, after any general election that may be last
held previous to such selection, a panel to consist of
the names of three hundred persons, to be fairly and
impartially selected by the said judge with special
reference to the intelligence, sobriety and integrity
of such persons, and without the least reference to
their political opinions; 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 certifi-
cates shall be filed with the clerks of the said courts,
and by them preserved as other proceedings of the
said courts are kept.

Ibid s 3.
Duty of judges
in selecting
jurors.

19. When said lists of names, selected as directed
in the preceding section, is made and certified, as
therein provided for, immediately thereupon the said
judges 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 judge himself

Drawing names
from ballot box.

with his own hands, immediately before the draw-
ing herein provided for, into a cubiform box with
sliding top, of the square of eight inches, to be pro-
cured for that purpose by the clerk of said court,
under the direction of the 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