J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     911

157.

(a)   Whenever a judge, or the judges, of the Circuit Court for
Howard County draws a jury, he or they, after selecting from the
taxable and voters, as required by law, the list of names to be placed
in the box for the drawing, and certifying to the list, shall cause
the names on the list to be numbered, commencing with the first
name thereon, numbering upwards consecutively and then, instead
of requiring the names on the selected list to be written on ballots
and placed in and drawn from the box, the said judge or judges
drawing the jury, in his or their discretion, and option and in lieu
of such written ballots, may cause the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Howard County to provide a number of white marbles or balls,
each of the same size and plainly marked with numbers from one
consecutively upwards to the highest number on the selected list
of names certified to be said judge or judges, which said marbles or
balls shall be placed in the box from which drawings are made in
the case where ballots are used; where the drawings are made by
districts, the marbles or balls shall be deposited in the district com-
partments in such way that their numbers shall correspond, in each
district, with the names on the judge's or judges' selected list and
the numbers thereof; the said judge, or judges, shall then cause the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard County, or One of his deputies
whom the said judge or judges, shall designate, neither the one nor
the other who may be so required to act to be present at the selection
of the said list of names or the numbering of the same, to appear
before him or them, and then and there in the presence of the said
judge or judges, and such other persons as may choose to attend,
to draw from the box in which the balls are placed, in the same order
and way that ballots would be drawn, without in any way looking
into said box, one by one forty eight or seventy-three as the case
may be of said marbles or balls, and as each marble or ball is drawn
from the box it shall be handed to the judge or judges, who shall
announce the number thereon and the name on the said selected and
certified list whose number corresponds therewith; and the forty-
eight or seventy-three as the case may be names corresponding by
numbers to the forty-eight or seventy-three as the case may be
numbers on the marbles or balls so drawn, and the said numbers,
shall be duly recorded in the presence of the said judge or judges,
who shall forthwith order a venire facias for the persons whose
names have been so drawn. The forty-eight or seventy-three as the
case may be marbles or balls drawn shall be placed in separate com-
partments of the box; the marbles or balls that were not drawn shall
remain in the box, or boxes, wherein they were deposited, which
shall be locked or sealed, to be used in filling vacancies that may
occur in the jury, in the same way they might be filled if the draw-
ings had been made by ballot.

(b)   In drawing the Grand Jury the said judge or judges, in his
or their discretion, and option, and in lieu of written ballots, may
cause the list of jurors who have been summoned and are in attend-
ance on the first day of the term of the court to which they are
summoned, to be numbered consecutively upwards from one to
forty-eight, or seventy-three as the case may be and may cause the
Clerk of the Court to provide a number of white marbles or balls
each of the same size and plainly numbered consecutively upwards
from one to forty-eight, or seventy-three as the case may be, which
said marbles or balls, except the one bearing the number correspond-