786

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

drawing and summoning of jurors in the several

counties, and prescribing their qualifications ' "

and re-enact the same with amendments, be and

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so aa

to read as follows :

SECTION 3. When said list of names, selected as

directed in the preceding section, is made and

certified as therein provided for, immediately

thereupon the said judges of the said respective

Ballots— how

courts, in the presence of the members of the bar

prepared.

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 and Frederick

counties, placed by the said judges, with their own

hands, immediately before the drawing herein

Cubiform box.

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 de-

positing said ballots, the said box shall be closed,

and the said judges shall then cause the elerk or

one of his deputies, whom the said judge 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

How drawn.

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

Names re-

on said ballots as drawn, shall be duly recorded

corded.

by said judges, or by the clerk in his presence

and under his direction, in the order in which

they shall be drawn and in Baltimore county a

box shall be procured as aforesaid, of the form

aforesaid, and of the square of — inches; and said