1362 JURIES. [ART. 51
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 remov-
ing 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.
In Baltimore county a box shall be procured as aforesaid of
the form aforesaid and of sufficient size, and said box shall be
divided into fifteen 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 the 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 four names from compartment number one, three from
number two, four from number three, three from number four,
two from number five, three from number six, three from
number seven, four from number eight, four from number nine,
two from number ten, three from number eleven, four from
number twelve, two from number thirteen, two from number
fourteen and four from number fifteen.
In Frederick county there shall be procured by the clerk of
the circuit court a jury box of convenient size which shall be
divided into as many compartments as there may from time to
time be election districts in said county, and which compart-
ments shall be numbered to correspond with the districts of
the county, and the names of the persons selected by the
judges of the circuit court for said county, in the manner pre-
scribed in this article, shall be placed by said judges in said
compartments of said box, respectively, which bear the num-
bers of the districts where the persons so selected, respec-
tively, reside; and it shall be the duty of said judges when
selecting the panel of two hundred persons, as provided for in
section 7, to select twenty-five of said names from election dis-
trict number two and the remaining one hundred and seventy-
five names from the remaining election districts of the county
equally as nearly as possible, and there shall then be drawn in
the manner provided in this article for the other counties nine
names from compartment number two and the other thirty-nine
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