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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

notice of the time and place having been first given to said

bar through the crier of said court, to proceed to select from

the list last furnished by the clerk to the county commis-

sioners as provided in section one of this act, and from the

poll-books of the several election districts of said county,

which shall have been returned and filed, in the clerk's

office of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, after

any general election that may have been held last before

such section, a panel to consist of two hundred and forty

names of citizens of said county, to be fairly and impartially

selected, with special reference to the intelligence sobriety

and integrity of such persons and without the least

reference to their political opinions, which said names shall

be selected as to their respective numbers from the respective

election districts of said county as follows : From the first

election district, thirty ; from the second election district,

thirty; from the third election district, thirty-five ; from the

fourth election district, thirty-five ; from the fifth election

district, thirty-five ; from the sixth election district (Ana-

polis City) forty-five, and from the eight election district

thirty ; and of the names of persons so selected, and the re-

spective districts from which they have been selected a list

shall be made and a certificate appended thereto by said

judge or judges, certifying that the said list of names has

been 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 be preserved as

other proceedings of the said court are kept.

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

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selected as directed by the preceding section of this act, is

made and certified as hereinbefore provided, immediately

thereupon, the judge or judges of said court in the presence

of the members of the bar as aforesaid, and such other per-

sons as may attend, shall cause all the names selected and

placed on the list as aforesaid, to be legibly written on

ballots of equal size and the same color and appearance,

which shall be closely folded and placed by said judge or

judges with their own hands, immediately before the draw-

ing herein provided for, into a cubiform box of the square

of twenty inches, to be procured for that purpose by the

clerk of said court under the direction of the judge or judges

of said court, which box shall have seven compartments or

drawers, which shall be numbered to correspond with the

numbers of the respective election districts of said county ;

and the names of the persons so selected as aforesaid shall

be placed by the judge or judges in the said compartments

or drawers as follows : The thirty names selected from the

first district in number one, the thirty names from the