90 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

box for the drawing, and certifying to the list, shall cause the
names on the list to be numbered, commencing with the first
name thereon, numbering upwards consecutively, and then, in-
stead of requiring the names on the selected list to be written
on ballots and placed in and drawn from the box, the said
judge or judges drawing the jury, in his or their discretion, and
option and in lieu of such written ballots, may cause the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for the County wherein they are to be
used to provide a number of white marbles or balls, each of
the same size and plainly marked with numbers from one con-
secutively upwards to the highest number on the selected! list
of names certified to by said judge or judges, which said mar-
bles or balls shall be placed in the box from which drawings
are made in the case where ballots are used; where the draw-
ings are made by districts, the marbles or balls shall be depos-
ited in the district compartments in such way that their num-
bers shall correspond, in each district, with the names on the
judge's or judges' selected list and the numbers thereof; the
said judge, or judges, shall then cause the Clerk of the Court
for the County in which the drawing is being made, or one of his
deputies whom the said judge, or judges, shall designate, neither
the one nor the other who may be so required to act to be present
at the selection of the said list of names or the numbering of
the same, 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 attend, to draw from the box in which
the balls are placed, in the same order and way that ballots
would be drawn, without in any way looking into said box,
one by one forty-eight of said marbles or balls; and as each
marble or ball is drawn from the box it shall be handed to the
judge or judges, who shall announce the number thereon and
the name on the said selected and certified list whose number
corresponds therewith; and the forty-eight names correspond-
ing by numbers to the forty-eight numbers on the marbles or
balls so drawn and the said numbers, shall be duly recorded in
the presence of the said judge or judges, who shall forthwith
order a venire facias for the persons whose names have been
so drawn. The forty-eight marbles or balls drawn shall be
sealed up safely, and preserved by the Clerk; the marbles or
balls that were not drawn shall remain in the box, or boxes,
wherein they were deposited, which shall be locked or sealed,
to be used in filling vacancies that may occur in the jury, in
the same way they might be filled if the drawing had been
made by ballots. The intent and meaning of this Act is not