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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said court, and be by him preserved as other proceedings of
said court are preserved.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, When list of names is eo selected and

Mode of
drawing
jurors.

certified, the -judge or judges of said court, in presence of
members of the bar and others attending, shall cause all the
names so selected to be legally written on ballots of equal size
and of the same color and appearance, which shall be closely
folded and placed by said judge or judges personally into a
box (cubic form) of 24x24 inches in size, with nine separate
boxes or drawers in it, and the number of jurors' names to be
placed in each box shall be apportioned in proportion to the
eligible jurors from each of said respective election districts ;
and the said judge or judges shall cause the clerk to said Cir-
cuit Court or one of his deputies to draw from the box in which
the names of the list from the first district have been placed
the number of persons to which said district is entitled by the
apportionment hereinbefore provided for, and so on consecu-
tively from each district of the county, until the number of
forty-eight names shall have been so drawn, and the names so
drawn shall constitute the jury for the next ensuing term of
said court; provided, however, in case of a vacancy occurring
from any cause, such as sickness, death, or being excused, that
the vacancy so occurring shall be filled from the other names
in the box representing the district in which such vacancy shall
have occurred; and the order to the sheriff to summon shall be
in the usual manner and form now practiced under the laws of
this State, it being the intent of this act that each of the elec-
tion districts of said county shall have a representation on such
jury as the proportion of its voting and taxable male popula-
tion bears to the population of the whole county.
Approved April 2, 1896.

CHAPTER 330.

AN ACT to repeal Section four of Chapter two hundred and
ninety-six, of the Acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight, entitled "An Act for the incorporation of the Supreme
Lodge of the Shield of Honor of the United States," and
to re-enact the same with amendments.

Repeal.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section four, of chapter two hundred and ninety-
six, of the Acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled