1034 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

court, and the sum due to him for such attendance, shall be suf-
ficient authority to the treasurer to pay the amount specified in
the certificate.

1888, ch. 433.

195. When the list of names selected as directed in sections
6 and 7 of article 51 of the code of public general laws, title
"Juries," is made and certified as therein provided for, imme-
diately thereupon the judges of the circuit court, in the presence
of the members of the bar and such other persons as may
attend, shall cause all the names selected and placed on said list
to be legibly written on ballots of equal size and of the same color
and appearance, which shall be closely folded and placed by said
judges with their own hands, immediately before the drawing
herein provided for, into a cubiform box of the square of twenty-
four inches, to be procured for that purpose by the clerks of said
court under the direction of said judges; and the said box shall
have as many compartments or drawers as there are election dis-
tricts of the county, and which shall be numbered to correspond
with said election districts; and the names of the persons selected
as aforesaid shall be placed by the judges in the said compart-
ments or drawers of said box which shall respectively bear the
numbers of the districts where the persons so selected shall
respectively reside; and after so depositing the said ballots the
said box shall be closed, and the judges shall cause the clerk or
one of his deputies, whom the judges shall designate, and who
shall not be present at the writing, 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 other
persons as may choose to be present, to draw from each com-
partment of said box, without looking into the same, beginning
with the compartment containing the names from the first elec-
tion district, and so on in succession, the number of names appor-
tioned by the said judges to each district until forty-eight ballots
shall be drawn; and the names appearing on said ballots as drawn
shall be recorded by the clerk in the presence of said judges in the
order drawn, and thereupon the judges shall order a venire facias
directed to the sheriff of said county commanding him to sum-
mon as jurors to attend at the next ensuing jury term of said
court the several persons whose names shall be drawn as aforesaid,