ART. 22.] WASHINGTON COUNTY. 1039

said box, one by one, forty-eight of said balls, and as each of
said balls is drawn from said box it shall be handed to the
said judge or judges, who shall announce the number thereon,
together with the name on the list of two hundred names cor-
responding to said number so drawn, and the said forty-eight
names corresponding to the said forty-eight numbers so drawn
shall, with said numbers, be duly recorded by said judge or
judges, or by the clerk, in his or their presence and under his
or their direction, in the order in which they shall be drawn,
and shall number the names of those so drawn from one to forty-
eight, inclusive, in the order in which they are drawn, and
thereupon the said judge or judges shall forthwith order a
venire facias provided in said article 51 of the Code of Public
General Laws, and after the said forty-eight balls have been
so drawn and the numbers thereon and the names corre-
sponding thereto shall have been recorded and numbered as
hereinbefore provided, the judge or judges shall place the
said forty-eight balls in the compartment of said box other
than the one from which they were drawn, together with the
certified list of two hundred names, and shall cause the said
box to be closed and locked and kept, and only opened as pro-
vided in said article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws;
provided, however, that if for any of the reasons mentioned in
said article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws, it shall
become necessary to draw talesman or to fill vacancies, the
judge or judges shall draw from said box as many balls as
may be necessary therefor, in the same manner as the origi-
nal forty-eight were drawn, and as each vacancy may be filled
the one so drawn to fill the vacancy shall be substituted in
said list of forty-eight under the same number and in the
place of the one in whose place and stead said juror may be
drawn, and the clerk of the court shall designate in his
minutes of the proceedings of said court the name and number
of each juror drawn in whose place and stead another may
be drawn, and the name of the juror drawn to fill said place
and number in said list of forty-eight jurors.

264c. Instead of causing the names to be written upon bal-
lots and placed in and drawn from a box as provided in sec-
tion ten 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 to provide a
box of sufficient dimensions, and further, to provide forty-
eight white balls in addition to those provided for in the pre-
ceding section, each of the same size and plainly marked with
numbers from one to forty-eight, inclusive, and of the forty-
eight jurors drawn and summoned, the court, at the begin-