1038 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of the Code of Public General Laws, the judge or judges of
the Circuit Court for Washington county drawing the jury
for said county shall apportion the names of the panel of
two hundred among the several election districts of the county,
so that from each election district there shall be selected as
near as may be the number of names bearing the same propor-
tion to two hundred that the registered vote of said district
bears to the entire registered vote of the county, which said
list or panel of two hundred names shall be numbered from
one to two hundred, inclusive, and after the said list of two
hundred names shall have been selected and certified by the
judge or judges as provided in section 51 of the Code of Public
General Laws, and after the drawing of the jury, as provided
in the following section, shall be placed in the box hereinafter
provided for by section 264B, until the drawing of the jury
for the next succeeding jury term of the Circuit .Court for Wash-
ington county, and a certified copy thereof shall be recorded
among the minutes of the term of said court, at which such
selection and drawing took place; provided, that election dis-
tricts numbers three, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twen-
ty-four and twenty-five, generally known as the Hagerstown
districts, may be considered and treated as one election dis-
trict in the apportioning and selection of names as aforesaid.

264B. Instead of causing the names to be written upon bal-
lots and placed in and drawn from a box, as provided in sec-
tion eight of article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws, the
judge or judges of said court may, in his or their discretion,
in lieu thereof, require the clerk of said court, under his or
their direction, to provide a box of sufficient dimensions, and
to have the same divided into two compartments, and further
to provide two hundred white balls, each of the same size,
plainly and clearly marked with numbers from one to two hun-
dred, respectively, which said balls shall be placed in one com-
partment of said box and thoroughly shaken and well mixed,
and after the list of two hundred names shall have been se-
lected and certified to as provided in the preceding section, the
said judge or judges shall then cause the clerk or one of his
deputies whom the said judge or judges shall designate,
neither the one or the other, who may be so required to act,
to be present at the selection of the said list of two hundred
names, to appear before him or them and then and there, in
the presence of the said judge or judges, and such other per-
sons as may choose to be present, to draw from the compart-
ment in which said balls have been placed, through the open-
ing made by removing the sliding top thereof, as will only
conveniently admit the hand, without in any way looking into