ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 953
ing section, and to be known as the grand jury panel, the
total of one hundred names shall be selected from the fifteen
districts of said county in the following proportions: twelve
names from District 1, seven names from District No. 2,
six names from District No. 3, five names from District No.
4, two names from District No. 5, two names from District
No. 6, three names from District No. 7, seven names from
District No. 8, twelve names from District No. 9, two names
from District No. 10, seven names from District No. 11,
seven names from District No. 12, eight names from Dis-
trict No. 13, eight names from District No. 14, and twelve
names from District No. 15.
391E. That when said list of names selected as directed
in the preceding Sections 391A and 391B is made and certi-
fied as therein provided for, immediately thereupon the said
judges of said court, in the presence of the members of the
Bar as aforesaid, and such other persons as may think proper
to be present, shall cause all of the names selected and placed in
the list as aforesaid, to be legibly written upon ballots, which
shall be of equal size and of the same color and appearance, and
shall be closely rolled or folded and placed by said judges with
their own hands before the drawings herein provided for, in a
box of sufficient size, to be marked Petit Jury Box, the said box
being divided into fifteen (15) compartments, which shall be
numbered to correspond with the district of said county, with a
sliding top therein to be procured for that purpose by the clerk
of said court under the direction of said judges, and the names
of the persons selected as aforesaid from the respective districts
shall be placed by the said judges in the said compartments of
said box respectively, which bear the numbers of the districts
where the persons so selected respectively reside, and after so
depositing said ballots, the said box shall be closed and the
said judges shall then cause the clerk, or one of his deputies,
whom the said judges shall designate (neither the one nor
the other who may be so required to act, to be present at the
writing, rolling or folding and depositing of said ballots into
the box as herein directed) to appear then and there in the
presence of the said judges and such other persons as may
choose to be present, after well and thoroughly shaking the
said box so that the ballots in the fifteen compartments thereof
be well mixed, to draw from said box through such opening
made by removing the sliding top thereof as will conveniently
admit the hand and exposing but one of said compartments
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