954 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 339

at any one time and without in any manner looking into said
box one by one, twenty-five of said ballots, and the names
appearing on said ballots withdrawn shall be duly recorded
by said judges or by the clerk, in their presence and under
their direction, in the order in which they shall be drawn and
the said list so drawn shall constitute and be the petit jury panel
for the term of said court immediately following said drawing,
and in drawing the twenty-five names aforesaid the said
ballots shall be drawn in the following manner: two names
from compartment No. 1, two names from No. 2, two names
from No. 3, one name from No. 4, one name from. No. 5, one
name from No. 6, one name from No. 7, two names from No.
8, two names from No. 9, one name from No. 10, two names
from No. 11, two names from No. 12, two names from No.
13, two names from No. 14 and two names from No. 15.

391F. That when said list of names selected as directed in
the preceding Sections 391C and 391D, known as the grand
jury panel is made and certified as therein provided for, im-
mediately thereupon the said judges of said court, in the pres-
ence of the members of the Bar aforesaid, and such other
persons as may think proper to be present, shall cause all 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 Grand 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 person so
selected, respectively, reside, and after so depositing said bal-
lots, 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 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