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ELIHU E JACKSON, ESQUIRE GOVERNOR.
act; and the said list and certificate shall be
filed with the clerks of said courts, and by them
preserved as other proceedings of the court are
kept.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That when said list
of names selected as directed in the preceding
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sections is made and certified, as herein provided
for, immediately thereupon the judges of said
courts, 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
written on ballots of equal size and of same
color and appearance, which shall be closely
folded and placed by said judges with their own
hands, immediately before the drawing herein
provided for, into a cubiform box of the square
of twenty-four inches, to be procured for that
purpose by the clerks of said courts under the
direction of said judges, and the said box shall
have ten 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 in the said compartments or drawers
of said box which shall respectively bear the
numbers of the districts where the persons so
selected shall respectively reside; and after so
depositing the said ballots the said box shall be
closed, and the judges shall cause the clerk or
one of his deputies, whom the judges shall desig-
nate, and who shall not be present at the writing,
folding and depositing said ballots into the box
as herein directed, to appear before them and
then and there, in the presence of said judges
and such other persons as may choose to be
present, to draw, without looking into the same,
from said box, beginning with compartments
containing the names of the first elective dis-
trict, and draw from each compartment the
number of names apportioned by the same
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