192                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 152

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 respectively reside, and after so depositing
said ballots, the said box shall be closed [and the said] .Each of the
petit jury panels to serve during that particular term of court shall
then be chosen in the following manner: the 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 folding and depositing
of said ballots into the box as herein directed) to appear then and
there in the presence of the said Judge , the members of the Bar as
aforesaid, 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 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appearing on said ballots so withdrawn shall be duly recorded by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] each list so drawn shall constitute and be [the Petit Jury
Panel] a petit jury panel for the term of said Court immediately
following said drawing [, and] . In drawing the twenty-five names
for each list 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 District 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
names from District No. 11, two names from District No. 12, two
names from District No. 13, two names from District No. 14 and
two names from District No. 15.

193. Any petit jury chosen for a particular term of Court shall
serve for four weeks; provided, however, that the Circuit Court for
Baltimore County may extend or reduce that term of service of any
particular jury as in its discretion deems advisable. No more than
three petit juries may serve simultaneously at any particular time.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved March 11, 1957.

CHAPTER 152

(Senate Bill 308)

AN ACT to ratify and confirm the actions of The County Commis-
sioners of Queen Anne's County in expending certain sums of

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