FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

CHAPTER 497.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enaet with amendments, Section 3
of Chapter 28 of the acts passed at the January session,
1890, entitled " An Act to provide for the Selecting, Draw-
ing and Summoning of Jurors for Caroline County."

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 3 of chapter 28 of the acts passed at
the January session of 1890, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows :

Repeal.

SEC. 3. That when said list of names selected, as directed in
the preceding section, is made and certified, as herein provided
for, immediately thereupon the judges or judge of said court,
in the presence of the members of the bar, as aforesaid, and
such other persons who may attend, shall cause all the names
selected and placed on the list, as aforesaid, to be legibly writ-
ten on ballots of equal size and of same color and appearance,
which shall be closely folded and placed by said judges or
judge with their or his own hands, immediately before the
drawing herein provided for, into a box of the square of thirty
inches, to be procured for that purpose by the clerk of said
court under the direction of said judge's or judge; and the said
box shall have eight compartments or drawers which shall be
numbered to correspond with the election districts of said
county; and the names of the persons selected, as aforesaid,
shall be placed by the judges or judge in the said compart-
ments or drawers of said box, which shall, respectively, bear
the numbers of the election districts where the persons so
selected shall, respectively, reside; and after so depositing the
said ballots the s;tid box shall be closed, and the said judges
or judge shall cause the clerk or one of his deputies, whom the
said judges or judge shall designate, and who shall not be
present at the writing, folding and depositing said ballots into
the box, as herein directed, to appear before them or him, and
then and there in the presence of said judges or judge and
such other persons as may choose to be present, to draw with-
out looking into the same, from said box, beginning with the
compartment containing the names of the first election dis-
trict, and draw from each compartment the number of names
appointed by said judges or judge to its respective district,
until forty-eight ballots shall be drawn, and the names appear-
ing on said ballot as drawn, shall be recorded by the clerk in
the presence of said judges or judge in the order drawn, and

Drawing
jurors.