1586 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 815]

as follows: Six from drawer number one, six from drawer
number two, seven from drawer number three, five from drawer
number four, six from drawer number five, five from drawer
number six, seven from drawer number seven, three from draw-
er number eight and three from drawer number nine, and the
names appearing on the ballots so drawn shall be recorded by
the clerk of the said court in the presence of the judge or
judges, in the order drawn, and immediately thereupon said
judge or judges shall order a venire facias, directed to the
sheriff of said county, commanding him to summon as jurors,
to attend at the first day of the next ensuing term of court
the forty-eight persons whose names shall be drawn as afore-
said, and if any of the persons so drawn be dead, sick or not
found by the sheriff, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to return
the fact to the judge or judges, who shall thereupon cause to
be drawn from the drawer from which the name of the person
so dead, sick or not found, was drawn, another name or names
to take the place of such person dead, sick or not found by the
sheriff, and shall cause the names last as aforesaid drawn to
be inserted in said venire facias to be summoned as aforesaid,
and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to summon the persons
so last drawn, and to make returns thereof to the court at the
opening of its session; provided, however, that no person shall
be drawn and summoned to two successive terms of court; and
further that the drawing, selection or summons, of any person
disqualified as a juror by law, or otherwise, shall not invalidate
the whole drawing or selection, but such error may be corrected
by drawing another person from the box in place of the person
improperly selected or drawn.

413. On the first day of the term the judge or judges pres-
ent shall designate one person from the forty-eight names drawn
as aforesaid, to be foreman of the grand jury, and after select-
ing the foreman and causing all the drawers in the jury box
to be emptied, the forty-seven names remaining of those sum-
moned as jurors, shall be deposited in the said drawers from
which they were respectively drawn, and the clerk of the court,
in the presence of the court, or his deputy in the presence of the
court, shall draw them therefrom, beginning with drawer num-
ber one and taking one name out and recording it, and then
taking one name from each of the other drawers, successively,
in the numerical order of the drawers and recording each as
drawn, and repeating the process until all the names shall have
been drawn out and recorded; the first eighteen names, or per-
sons, so drawn, together with the foreman previously appointed,
and four other names, or persons, one of which shall be taken