386 JURIES. [ART. 51

ARTICLE LI.

JURIES.

Qualification and Selection of Jurors. 8 Drawing and summons. Special provisions f or Baltimore, Fred-

crick, Montgomery and Car- roll counties. 10. Grand jury and petit jury. Prince George's county excepted.

Qualification and Selection of Jurors.

1890, ch. 538. 1894, ch. 299. 1896, ch. 155, 1898, ch. 376.
8. When said list of names selected as directed in the preced-
ing section is made and certified as therein provided for, imme-
diately 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, Frederick,
Montgomery and Carroll counties, placed by the said judges
with their own hands, 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 admit the hand and without in any manner
looking into said box, one by one forty-eight of said ballots and
the names appearing on said ballots as drawn shall be duly,
recorded by said judges or by the clerk in their presence and
under their direction, in the order in which they shall be drawn,