ART. 50.] JURIES.

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other persons as may choose to be present, after well
and thoroughly shaking said box, so that the ballots
be well mixed, to draw from said box through such
opening made by removing the sliding top thereof, as
will only conveniently admit the hands, and without
in any manner looking into said box, one by one, forty-
eight of said ballots, and the name appearing on said
ballots as drawn, shall be duly recorded by the said
judges, or by the clerk, in his presence and under his
direction, in the order in which they shall be drawn ;

and in Baltimore county a box shall be procured as
aforesaid, of the form aforesaid, and of the square of
......... inches, and said box shall be divided into thir-
teen compartments, which shall be numbered to cor-
respond with the districts of the said county, and the
names of the persons selected as aforesaid shall he
placed by the said judges in the said compartments of
said box respectively, which bear the numbers of the
districts where the persons so selected respectively re-
side, and there shall be then drawn in the manner
hereinbefore provided for the other counties, five names
from compartment number one, three from number
two, five from number three, three from number four,
two from number five, three from nnmber six, three
from number seven, five from number eight, six from
nine, two from number ten, three from number eleven,
six from number twelve, and two from number thir-
teen, and said names so drawn shall be recorded as
hereinbefore directed, and thereupon the said judges

Mode of draw-
ing in Balti-
more county.

shall forthwith order a venire facias, directed to the
sheriff of the said counties respectively, commanding
them to summon as jurors, to attend at the next en-
suing term of said courts, the several persons whose
names may be drawn as aforesaid, and if any such per-
sons whose names are so drawn and embraced in said
venire facias should be dead, sick, or otherwise unable
to attend, or should be absent, and therefore not to be
found, it shall be the duty of said sheriff forthwith tc
return the fact of such death, disability or absence, and
the said judges shall thereupon cause to be drawn from

Summoning
jurors.