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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

list shall be made and a certificate appended thereto by said judges

or judge, that the said list of names has been duly selected in

conformity with and according to the spirit of this act, and the

said list and certificate shall be filed with the clerk of said court

and by him preserved as other proceedings of the court are kept

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when said list of names selected

as directed in the preceding sections is made and certified as

herein provided for, immediately thereupon the judges or judge

of said court in the presence of the members of the bar as afore-

said, and such other persons who may attend, shall cause all the

Ballots

names selected and placed on the list as aforesaid to be legibly

written on ballots of equal size and of same color and appearance,

which shall be closely folded and placed by said judges or judge

with their or his own hands immediately before the drawing

herein provided for, into a box of the square of twenty-four

inches to be procured for that purpose by the clerk of said court,

under the direction of said judges or judge, and the said box shall

have six compartments or drawers which shall be numbered to

Box.

correspond with the elections districts of said county, and the

names of the persons selected as aforesaid shall be placed by the

judges or judge in the said compartments or drawers of said box,

which shall respectively bear the numbers of the election districts

where the persons so selected shall respectively reside, and after

so depositing the said ballots the said box shall be closed and the

said judges or judge shall cause the clerk, or one of his deputies,

whom the judges or judge 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 or him and then

and there in the presence of said judges or judge and such other

To draw

persons as may choose to be present, to draw, without looking into

the same, from said box, beginning with the compartment con-

taining the names of the first election district, and draw from

each compartment the number of names apportioned by the said

judges or judge to its respective 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 or

judge in the order drawn, and therefor the judges or judge shall

order a venire facias directed to the sheriff of said county com-

Venire
facias

manding him to summon as jurors to attend at the next ensuing-

jury term of said court, the several persons whose names shall be-

drawn as aforesaid, and if any such persons are dead, or by sick-

ness or any other cause are unable to attend, or returned non esf

by the sheriff, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to immediately

return the fact to the said judges or judge who shall thereupon

Absent

cause to be drawn from the compartments of said box for the

election district in which said deceased or sick juror resided, in

the manner directed, other names in the place or stead of the

original who may be dead, disabled or absent, and shall have the