HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 95

344. When said list of names selected, as directed in
the preceding section, is made and certified, as herein pro-
vided for, immediately thereupon the judge or judges of
said court, in the presence of the members of the bar, as
aforesaid, and such other persons who may attend, shall
cause all the names selected and placed on the list, as
aforesaid, to be legibly written on ballots of equal size and
of same color and appearance, which shall be closely folded
and placed by said judge or judges with his or their own
hands, immediately before the drawing herein provided
for, into a box to be procured for that purpose by the clerk
of said Court under the direction of the judge or judges;
which box shall have a length of not exceeding forty-two
inches, width not exceeding twelve inches and depth not
exceeding six inches, and its length shall be divided into
eight equal compartments fitted with drawers which
shall be numbered to correspond with the election districts
of said county; and the names of the persons selected,
as aforesaid, shall be placed by the judge or judges in
said compartments or drawers of said box, which shall, re-
spectively, bear the numbers of the election districts where
the persons so selected shall, respectively, reside; and after
so depositing the said ballots the said box shall be closed,
and the said judge or judges shall cause the clerk or one of
his deputies, whom the said judge or judges shall designate,
and who shall not be present at the writing, folding and
depositing said ballots into the box, as herein directed,
to appear before him or them, and then and there in the
presence of said judge or judges and such other persons
as may choose to be present, to draw without looking into
the same, from said box, beginning with the drawer con-
taining the names of the first election district, and draw
from each drawer the number of names appointed by
said judge or judges to its respective district, until forty-
eight ballots shall be drawn, and the names appearing
on said ballot as drawn, shall be recorded by the Clerk in
the presence of said judge or judges in the order drawn,
and thereupon the judge or judges shall order
a venire facias directed to the sheriff of said county,
commanding him to summon as jurors, to attend at the
next ensuing jury term of said court, the several
persons whose names shall be drawn, as afore-
said; and if any such persons are dead, or by sickness
or any other cause are unable to attend, or returned Non
Est by the sheriff, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to
immediately return the fact to the said judge or judges,
who shall thereupon cause to be drawn from the
drawers of said box for the election district