J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           1391

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 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 pro-
vided 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 clerk, in their
presence and under their direction, in the order in which they
shall be drawn. This section shall not apply to Charles County
except to the extent provided for in subsection (f), and to Prince
George's County except to the extent provided for in subsection (g).

10 (g) When said list of names is selected as directed in Section
9, the procedure in Prince George's 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 FOUR hundred (but not less than one
THREE hundred and fifty). Said clerk shall procure a box of suit-
able 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 referred to. The clerk shall shake the box and the
drawing shall take place in accordance with the provisions of sub-
section (a).

12.

Of the forty-eight jurors drawn and summoned, the court at the
beginning of the term for which they were drawn and summoned
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 five 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 and Prince George's County the fore-
man 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-