714 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 427

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 8 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Juries", sub-title "Qualifica-
tion and Selection of Jurors", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

8. (a) When said list of names selected as directed in the
preceding section is made and certified as therein provided for,
immediately thereupon the said judges of the said respective
courts, 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 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 in each of the counties, except
Baltimore, Frederick, Montgomery and Carroll Counties,
placed by the said judges with their own hands before the
drawings herein provided for in a cubi-form box, with a sliding,
top of the square of eight inches, to be procured for that pur-
pose by the clerk of said court, under the direction of the said
judges, 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
said ballots into the box as herein directed) to appear before
them and 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 be
well mixed, to draw from said box through such opening
made by removing the sliding top thereof as will only con-
veniently admit the hand and without in any manner looking
into said box one by one, forty-eight of said ballots, and the
names appearing on said ballots as drawn 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.

(b) In Baltimore County a box shall be procured, as afore-
said, of the form aforesaid, and of sufficient size, and said box
shall be divided into fifteen compartments, which shall be
numbered to correspond with the districts of the said county,
and the names of the person selected as aforesaid shall be
placed by the said judges in the said compartments of the
said box, respectively, which bear the numbers of the districts
where the persons so selected respectively reside, and there
shall be then drawn in the manner hereinbefore provided for
the other counties four names from compartment No. 1, three
from No. 2, four from No. 3, three from No. 4, two from No. 5,,