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JURIES. [ART. 50.

Washington, Montgomery, Alleghany, Carroll, Fred-
erick, Anne Arundel, Prince George, Harford, Cecil,
Dorchester, and of one hundred and fifty persons in
the several counties of Howard, Worcester, Somerset,
Charles, Calvert, St. Mary's, Kent, Queen Anne's,
Caroline and Talbot, to be fairly and impartially se-
lected of the age aforesaid by the said judges, with
special reference to the intelligence, sobriety and integ-
rity of such persons, and without the least reference to
their political opinion ; and of the names of such per-
sons, when so selected, a list shall be made, and a cer-
tificate thereto appended by the said judges, that the
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.

Ibid.

21. 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 mem-
bers of the bar, as aforesaid, and such other persons

Duties of
judges of re-
spective courts.

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 in each of the counties,
except Baltimore county, placed by the said judges with
their own hands immediately before the drawing herein

Drawing of
names from
ballot box.

provided for, into a cubiform box with sliding top, of
the square of eight inches, to be procured for that pur-
pose by the clerk of said court, under the direction of
the said judges, and after so depositing said ballots, the
said box shall be closed, and the said judges shall then
cause the clerk, or one of his deputies, whom the said
judges shall designate, neither 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 them and then
and there, in the presence of said judges, and such