HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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required to attend, in the presence of such practicing members of
the bar of the court as shall thing proper to attend, notice of
the time and place having first been given to the bar through the
crier of the court, to proceed to select from the list last
furnished by the clerk to the county council as provided in the
preceding section, and from the poll books of the several
councilmanic districts of the county, which shall have been
returned and filed, in the clerk's office of the circuit courts
for the county, after any general election that may have been
held last before such selection, a panel to consist of three
hundred names of citizens of the county, to be fairly and
impartially selected, with special reference to the intelligence,
sobriety and integrity of such persons and without the least
reference to their political opinions, which such names shall be
selected as to their respective numbers from the respective
councilmanic districts of the county as follows: From the first
councilmanic district, thirty-nine; from the second councilmanic
district, forty-five; from the third councilmanic district,
fifty-four; from the fourth councilmanic district, thirty-six;
from the fifth councilmanic district, forty-five; from the sixth
councilmanic district (Annapolis City), fifty-one; and from the
seventh councilmanic district, a total of thirty; and of the
names of persons so elected, and the respective districts from
which they have been selected a list shall be made and a
certificate appended thereto by the judge or judges, certifying
that the list of names has been selected in conformity with and
according to the spirit of this section, and the list and
certificate shall be filed with the clerk of the court and by him
be preserved as other proceedings of the court are kept.]

[5-502.

When the list of names, selected as directed by the
preceding section is made and certified as provided in the
preceding section, immediately thereupon the judge or judges of
the court, in the presence of the members of the bar as provided
in the preceding section, and such other persons as may attend,
of the list of three hundred names, shall select and appoint one
who shall be foreman of the grand jury, and shall cause all the
names selected and placed on the list aforesaid, except the name
of the foreman, to be legibly written on ballots of equal size
and the same color and appearance, which shall be closely folded
and placed by the judge or judges, with their own hands,
immediately before the drawing herein provided for, into a cubic
form box of the square of twenty inches, to be procured for that
purpose by the clerk of the court, under the direction of the
judge or judges of the court, which box shall have seven
compartments or drawers, which shall be numbered to correspond
with the numbers of the respective councilmanic districts of the
county; and the names of the persons so selected as aforesaid,
except the name of the foreman, shall be placed by the judge or
judges in the compartments or drawers as follows: The names
selected from the first councilmanic district in number one; the
names from the second councilmanic district in number two; the
names from the third councilmanic district in number three; the