J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                    2059

Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset, St. Mary's, Caroline,
Queen Anne's and Talbot counties and special laws enacted. This
section shall not apply to Baltimore County, as to which special pro-
vision is made by the local law therefor.

10.

(a) When said list of names selected as directed in Section 9 is
made and certified as therein provided 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 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 direc-
tion 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 open-
ing made by removing the sliding top thereof as will only conven-
iently 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 Dorchester,
Wicomico, Somerset, Worcester, and 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).

11.

Immediately after each drawing for jurors as directed in Section
10 or 10A and for talesmen as hereinafter directed and "without suf-
fering the said ballots remaining in said box to be taken out or in any
manner removed therefrom or inspected or examined, or the said
box to be looked into or removed from his presence by any person
whatever, the said judge of the said respective courts shall close
said box and either lock or seal the same securely and keeping the
key or seal thereof himself, shall deposit the said box containing the
remaining ballots with the clerk of the said court to be by him
safely kept free from any handling or interference by any person
whatever, unless it be in the presence of the said judge and by his
direction and then only in the manner herein directed; and if for
the trial of any cause or causes, whether civil or criminal, in the said
circuit court, a talesman or talesmen be required, the judge of the
said court may order the sheriff to summon such talesman or tales-
men either from a list of names that shall be drawn from the said
box containing the said ballots in the mode and manner as directed
by Section 10 and furnished to the said sheriff or from the com-
munity at large, as heretofore practiced.