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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

teen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter three
hundred and sixteen," entitled "An act to
repeal section two of an act passed March
twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
chapter three hundred and twenty-nine," en-
titled "An act to provide for the selection, draw-
ing and summoning of Jurors in the several
counties and prescribing their qualifications,"
and re-enact the same with amendments, and
to re-enact said section three with amendments
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows :

SEC. — And be it enacted, That 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

Put names in
a box.

Judges of the said respective Courts in the
presence of the members of the bar as afore-
said 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, im-
mediately before the drawings herein pro-
vided for, into a cubic firm box with a sliding
top of the square of eight inches, to be pro-
cured 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 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

Ballots.

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