HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1413

sons in the several counties of Washington, Montgomery,
Carroll, Frederick, Prince George's, Harford, Cecil, Dor-
chester and Wicomico, and of one hundred and fifty per-
sons in the several counties of Charles, Calvert, Kent and
Talbot, to be fairly and impartially selected of the age
aforesaid by the said judges, with special reference to the
intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such persons and
without the least reference to their political opinions; and
of the names of such persons when so selected, a list shall
be made and a certificate thereto appended by the said
judges that the said list of names has been duly selected in
conformity with and according to the spirit and intent of
this article, and which said lists and certificates shall be
filed with the clerks of the said courts and by them pre-
served as other proceedings of the said courts are kept.
Modified as to Howard, Garrett, Allegany, Anne Arundel,
Worcester, Somerset, St. Mary's, Caroline, Queen Anne's
and Talbot counties and special laws enacted,, This sec-
tion shall not apply to Baltimore County, as to which
special provision is made by the local law therefor.

8. (a) When said list of names selected as directed in
the preceding section is made and certified as therein pro-
vided 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 fold-
ed, and in each of the counties, except Frederick, Mont-
gomery and Carroll Counties, placed by the said judges
with their own hands before the drawings herein provided
f or in a cubi-form box, with a sliding top of the square of
eight inches, to be procured for that purpose 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 ir^ay 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 conveniently admit the hand and with-
out in any manner looking into said box one by one, forty-