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JURIES. [ART. 62.

procured for that purpose by the clerk of said court, under the direc-
tion of the said judges, and after so depositing said ballots, the said
box shall he closed, and the said judges shall then cause the clerk
or one of his deputies, whom the said judge 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 the said judges, and such other persons as may
choose to be present, after well and thoroughly shaking said box, so

Drawing of
names from
box.

that the ballots be well mixed, to draw from said box through such
opening made by removing the sliding top thereof, as will only con-
veniently admit the hands, and without in any manner looking into
said box, one by one, forty-eight of said ballots, and the names
appealing on said ballots as drawn, shall be duly recorded by the
said judges, or by the clerk, in his presence and under his direction,

Mode of draw-
ing in Baltimore
county.

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
thirteen compartments, which shall be numbered to correspond with
the districts of the said county, and the names of the persons
selected as aforesaid shall be 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 reside, 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 number six, three from number
seven, five from number eight, six from number nine, two from num-
ber ten, three from number eleven, six from number twelve, and two
from number thirteen, and said names so drawn shall be recorded as
hereinbefore directed, and thereupon the said judges shall forthwith

Summoning
jurors

order a venire facias, directed to the sheriff of the said counties
respectively, commanding them to summon as jurors, to attend at
the next ensuing term of said courts, the several persons whose
names may be drawn as aforesaid, and if any such persons 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 forth-
with to return the fact of such death, disability or absence, and the
said judges shall thereupon cause to be drawn from said box, in the
manner hereinbefore directed, other names in the place and stead of
the original who may be dead, disabled, or absent, and shall cause
the name or names of such person or persons so as last aforesaid
drawn, to be inserted in the said venire facias to be summoned as
aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to summon the per-
sons named in said venire facias, and make return thereof to the
said court at the opening of its session.
This section shall not apply to Prince George's county.