The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-11

GU ny lIle ACI Vi low, CHdpIeT 200.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Gen
s, of Article 81, of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Juries," as the
same was repealed and re-enacted bv
Chapter 533, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
Sec. 2. When said list of names select
ed as directed in the preceding section
is made and certified as therein pro-
vided 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 per-
sons as may think proper to be present,
placed on the list as aforesaid, to be
iegibly 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 Baltimore, Frederick,
Montgomery and Carroll counties,
placed by the said Judges with their
own hands Immediately before the
drawings herein provided for into a
cubiform box with 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 bal
lots, 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 either the
one or the other who may be SO re-
quired to act to be present at the writing,
rolling or folding and depositing said
ballots into the box as herein d.
rected, to appear before then, 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 said box, so that the
ballots be well mixed to draw from said
box through such opening made by re-
moving the sliding top thereof as will
only conveniently admit the hand and
without in any manner looking into said
box, one by one, forty-elght of said bal
lots and the names appearing on said
ballots as drawn, shall be duly recorded
by said judges or by the clerk in their
presence and under their direction in
the order in which they shall be drawn,
and in Baltimore county a box shall be
procured as aforesaid, of the form afore-
said, and of sufficient size, and said box
shall be divided into thirteen compart-
ments, which shall be numbered to cor
respond with the districts of the said
county, and the names of the persons
selected as aforesaid, shall be placed by
the said judges in the said compart-
ments of the said box respectively,
which bear the numbers of the districts
where the persons so selected respect
lively reside, and there shall be then
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vided for the other counties, five
names from partments, number one,
three from number two, five from num-
Der three, three from number four, two
from number FIVE, three from number
six, three from number seven, five from
number eight, six from number nine two
from number ten, three from number
eleven, six from number twelve, two
from number thirteen; and in Frederick
county a box of the form aforesaid shall
be procured as aforesaid and of conve-
nient size; and said box shall be divided
into as many compartments as there
may be election districts In said county,
which shall be numbered to correspond
with the districts of the said Frederick
county; and the names of the persons
selected as aforesaid shall be placed by
the said judges in the said compartments
of the said box respectively, which bear
the numbers of the districts where the
persons so selected respectively reside;
and it shall be the duty Of the judges of
the Circuit Court for Frederick county
when selecting the panel of two hun
dred persons as provided for in the pre-
ceding section of this article to select
twenty of said names from the election
district number two, and the remaining
one hundred and eighty names from the
remaining election districts of said
county equally; and there shall then be
drawn in the manner hereinbefore pro-
vided for the other counties, two names
from each of the compartments afore-
said, except the compartment represent
ing the second election district of said
county, and after two names shall
have been drawn from each of the
other compartments aforesaid, then the
remaining number of names necessary
to make up sthe full number of forty
eight as aforesaid, shall be drawn from
the compartments representing the said
second election district, provided that
in drawing the jurors for the December
term of the Circuit Court for said county
the twenty-five names required shall be
taken from those remaining in the box
after the drawing for the preceding Sep
TENDER term, five to be drawn from the
compartments number two, and one
from each Of the other compartments,
and no name which may be so drawn to
serve as iurOrs in FredericE county aft