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before the drawings herein provided for, into a cubiform 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 juges shall
then cause the clerk or one of his deputies, whom the said judges
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 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 on said ballots as drawn, shall be duly recorded by
said judges or by the clerk in their presence and under their
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 sufficient size, and said box shall be
divided into thirteen compartments, which shall be numbered
to correspond with the district of the said county, and the
names of the persons selected as aforesaid shall be placed by
the said judges in the said compartments of the said box,
respectively, which bear the numbers of the district where the
persons so selected, respectively, reside, and there shall be then
drawn, in the manner hereinbefore provided for the other
counties, five names from compartment number one, three
from number two, five from number three, three from
number four, two from number tive, three from number
six, three from number seven, five from number eight,
six from number nine, two from number ten, three from num-
ber eleven, six from number twelve, two from number thirteen;
and in Frederick county, a box, of the form aforesaid, shall be
procured as aforesaid, and of convenient size, and said box
shall be divided into as many compartments as there may be
election districts in said county, which shall be numbered to
correspond with the district of the said Frederick county, and
the names of the persons selected as aforesaid shall be placed
by the said judges in the said compartments of the said box,
respectively, which bear the number of the districts where the
persons so selected, respectively, reside; and it shall be the duty
of the judges of the Circuit Court for Frederick county, when
selecting the panel of two hundred persons, as provided for in
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