1424 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 804

Sec. 391-D. That when said list of names selected as
directed in the preceding sections as the Petit Jury Panel
is made and certified as therein provided, immediately there-
upon the said Judge 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 Judge with his 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 districts 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 Judge, and
the names of the persons selected as aforesaid from the
respective districts shall be placed by the said Judge in
the compartments of said box, respectively, which bear the
numbers of the districts where the persons so selected re-
spectively reside, and after so depositing said ballots, the
said box shall be closed and the said Judge shall then cause
the Clerk, or one of his deputies, whom the said Judge shall
designate (neither the one nor the other who may be so
required to act, to be present at the writing, rolling or fold-
ing and depositing of said ballots into the box as herein
directed) to appear then and there in the presence of the
said Judge and such other persons as may choose to be pres-
ent, 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
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names appearing on said ballots so withdrawn shall be duly
recorded by said Judge or by the Clerk, in the presence of
said Judge and under his direction, in the order in which
they shall be drawn, and the said list so drawn shall con-
stitute 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 District
No. 1, two names from District No. 2, two names from Dis-
trict No. 3, one name from District No. 4, one name from
District No. 5, one name from District No. 6, one name from
District No. 7, two names from District No. 8, two names
from District No. 9, one name from District No. 10, two