ART. 51] SELECTION OF JURORS. 1361

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 cer-
tificates shall be filed with the clerks of the said courts and by
them preserved as other proceedings of the said courts are
kept. Modified as to Howard, Garrett, Allegany, Anne Arundel,
Worcester, Somerset, St. Mary's, Caroline, Queen Anne's and
Talbot counties and special laws enacted.

Friend v. Hamill, 34 Md. 298. State v. Glasgow, 59 Md. 210. Cooper v.
State, 64 Md. 45 Avirett v. State, 76 Md. 532. State v. Keating, 85 Md.
190. State v. Vincent, 91 Md. 724.

1888, art. 51, sec. 8. 1867, ch. 329. 1868, ch. 316. 1870, ch. 220 1882

ch. 496. 1886, ch. 390. 1888, ch. 432. 1890, ch. 28. 1890, ch. 533.

1890, ch. 627. 1892, ch. 182. 1894, ch. 299, 1894, ch. 497.

1896, ch. 155. 1896. ch. 329. 1898, ch. 376. 1900, chs. 374,

451, 618. 1902, ch. 105. 1902, ch. 621. 1904, ch 184.

1904, ch. 303.

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, 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