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their certificate and signatures thereto. The Judge of the
Criminal Court of Baltimore shall, at the beginning of each
term of the said Coujt, designate the foreman of the Grand
Jury for the City of Baltimore for the said ensuing term, from
among the number of grand jurors selected as aforesaid for said
City; and in case of the disqualification, sickness, absence or
death of said foreman, or of any foreman of said Grand Jury,
may designate another from among the number of said Grand
Jury, who shall act as such foreman.

605. The said Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City, or one or more of them, shall, at one or more of the meet-
ings provided for in the last preceding section of this sub-divis-
ion of this Article, after the selection of the grand juries for the
City of Baltimore, as provided in the last preceding section,
cause all the names selected by the Judges as aforesaid, remain-
ing upon said list of qualified jurors, to be inscribed upon bal-
lots, which shall be of equal size, color and appearance, and
shall be closely folded and shall be placed by one of such
Judges, with his own hands, on the day of said meeting, and
immediately before the drawing herein provided for, in a draw-
ing wheel to be provided for that purpose by the Sheriff of
Baltimore City, under the direction of said Judges; the said
Judge shall then cause the said Sheriff, or such one of his dep-
uties as he shall designate, to appear before him; and it shall be
the duty of the said Sheriff or his said deputy, in the presence
and in the immediate view of the said Judge or Judges, and of
such other persons as may choose to attend, to draw one by
one from said wheel ihe ballots contained therein until four
hundred of said ballots have been drawn therefrom; and the
said, Judge or Judges shall cause the said wheel to be turned
upon its axis before the commencement of said drawing, and
after the ballots have been deposited therein, and after the draw-
ing of each ballot, and before the drawing of the next, until
four hundred of said ballots shall have been drawn; and said
Judge or Judges shall forthwith cause the names appearing
upon said ballot as drawn, together with the names selected as
grand jurors, to be duly recorded in a proper book in the order
in which they shall have been chosen, and in which said Judge
or Judges shall have seen them drawn as aforesaid, which said