1014                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 672

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 ap-
pearance, and shall be closely rolled or folded, and in each of the
counties, except Frederick, Montgomery and Carroll counties, placed
by the said judges with their own hands before the drawings herein
provided for in a cubiform 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 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 conveniently 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 direc-
tor, in the order in which they shall be drawn. This section shall not
apply to Charles County except to the extent provided for in Sub-
section (f).

(f) Charles County.—When said list of names is selected as directed
in Section 9, the procedure in Charles County shall be as follows:
The clerk of the court shall assign a number to each name on the
list ranging from one to three hundred (but not less than one hundred
and fifty). Said clerk shall procure a box of suitable size with pellets
of uniform size, color, shape and weight. Each pellet shall contain a
number thereon corresponding to the numbers on the list above re-
ferred to. The clerk shall shake the box and the drawing shall take
place in accordance with the provisions of Sub-section (a).

12. One of the forty-eight jurors drawn and summoned, the court
at the beginning of the term for which they were drawn and sum-
moned shall select and appoint one as foreman of the grand jury
(except that in Montgomery County the foreman shall be selected
from the original panel of three hundred names, with his name being
included among the jurors drawn and summoned and in Washington
County the foreman shall be selected from the list of names presently
being used as a panel in said county, as provided in Section 9 of
this Article, and in Charles County the foreman shall be selected
from its original panel of names presently being used in said county),
and shall direct the clerk of said court to legibly write upon ballots
the names of the remaining forty-seven jurors, and after carefully
folding said ballots separately to place them in a box with a sliding
top, and said clerk shall draw said ballots therefrom one at a time
without looking into said box and the first twenty-two names drawn,
with the foreman previously appointed, shall constitute the grand
jury, and the remaining twenty-five names (or, in Montgomery and
Washington counties the remaining number of names) shall consti-
tute the petit jury for said term of court; whenever a vacancy shall
occur in the position of foreman of the grand jury, either temporary
or permanent, by death, absence, sickness or any other cause, the
court shall have power to appoint some other member of the grand