256 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 146
CHAPTER 146.

AN ACT to authorize the use of numbered marbles, or balls,
instead of written ballots, in drawing jurors in Howard
County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whenever a judge, or the judges, of the Circuit
Court for Howard County draws a jury, he or they, after
selecting from the taxable 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, number-
ing upwards consecutively and then, instead 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
Howard County 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 districts, the marbles or balls
shall be deposited in the district compartments 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 Howard County, 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-