866 JURIES—MODE OF SELECTION. [ART. 51.

Mary's, Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline, Talbot and Garrett, 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 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 the said list of names has been duly
selected in conformity with and according to the spirit and intent
of this article, 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.

Friend v.Hamill. 34 Md 298. State v. Glasgow, 59 Md. 210. Cooper v.
State, 64 Md. 45.

1867, ch. 329. 1868, ch. 316. 1870, ch. 220. 1882, ch. 496. 1886, ch. 390.

1888, ch. 432.

8. When said list of names selected as directed in the pre-
ceding 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 in each of the counties, except Baltimore and
Frederick counties, placed by the said judges with their own
hands, immediately before the drawings herein provided for, into
a cubiform box with a 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 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 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 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 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