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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 appear-
ing 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. In Harford [County] and Washing-
ton Counties the clerk or his designated deputy shall draw seventy-
three rather than forty-eight ballots. 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).

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 436 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Washington County (1957 Edition, being
Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title
"Washington County," subtitle "Jurors," be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

436.

Instead of causing the names to be written upon ballots and placed
in and drawn from a box as provided in Section ten of Article 51
of the Code of Public General Laws, the judge or judges of said
court may, in his or their discretion, in lieu thereof, require the
clerk of said court to provide a box of sufficient dimensions, and
further, to provide [forty-eight] seventy-three white balls in addi-
tion to those provided for in the preceding section, each of the same
size and plainly marked with numbers from one to [forty-eight]
seventy-three 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, and shall direct the clerk of
the court to withdraw from the balls aforesaid the ball containing the
number corresponding with the number of the one so selected and ap-
pointed as foreman, as the same appears in the list of [forty-eight]
seventy-three jurors as numbered upon the drawing thereof, as pro-
vided in the preceding section, and said remaining [forty-seven]
seventy-two balls shall be placed in said box by the judge or judges
and thoroughly shaken and well mixed, and the said judge or judges
shall then cause the clerk of said court to draw from the said box,
through the opening made by removing the sliding top thereof, as
will only conveniently admit the hand, and without in any way
looking into said box, one by one, twenty-two of said balls, and as
each of said balls is drawn from said box it shall be handed by said
clerk to the said judge or judges, who shall announce the number
thereon, together with the name on the list of [forty-eight]
seventy-three jurors drawn and summoned and numbered as afore-
said, corresponding to said number. The said twenty-two names so an-
nounced corresponding to the twenty-two numbers so drawn shall,
with said numbers, be duly recorded by said judge or judges or by
the clerk in his or their presence, and under his or their directions,
in the order in which they shall respectively be drawn, and said
jurors so drawn, together with the foreman selected and appointed
as aforesaid, shall constitute the grand jury for said term of court.
If for any reason any person or persons drawn as a grand juror
or as grand jurors, as aforesaid, shall fail to attend and be present