1324 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 640

CHAPTER 640.

AN ACT to authorize the use of numbered marbles, or balls,
instead of written ballots, in drawing jurors in the First
Judicial Circuit.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whenever a judge, or the judges, of the Circuit
Court of the Counties embraced in the First Judicial Circuit,
draws 3. jury, he or they, after selecting from the taxables and
voters, as required by law, the list of names to be placed in the
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 consecutively
upwards to the highest number on the selected list of names
certified to by said judge or judges, which said marbles or balls
shall be placed in the box from which drawings are made in the
case where ballots are used; where the drawings are made by dis-
tricts, the marbles or balls shall be deposited in the District com-
partments in such way that their numbers 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 Circuit 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 pres-
ence of the said judge or judges, and such other persons 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 corresponding by numbers to the forty-eight
numbers on the marbles or balls so drawn and the said numbers,