PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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from each of four districts to be designated by the court, (the
residence district of the foreman not to be one of them), which
four names, or persons, shall be, in each case, the third name
among those drawn from the respective drawers for the districts
so designated, shall constitute the grand jury and the remain-
ing twenty-five shall constitute the petit jury for said term of
court. As soon as the grand and petit juries have been drawn,
the remaining one hundred and fifty-two names which were
placed in the box at the time the jury was drawn for the term
shall be returned to the respective drawers in which they were
originally placed, for future use in drawing jurors for the
said court.
414. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the position of fore-
man of the grand jury, either temporary or permanent, caused
by death, absence, sickness or by consent of court, the court
shall have power to appoint some other member of the grand
jury to be foreman during such vacancy. If for any reason
any person or persons drawn as a grand juror or grand jurors
shall fail to attend and be present at the conclusion of the draw-
ing or be disqualified, or be excused for cause, the court shall
forthwith proceed to fill such vacancy or vacancies from the
remaining number of 25 names of those who are present in
the order in which the names were drawn from the election
district or districts, corresponding with those from which such
vacancy may be created, as above, but if there be no names, or
persons, or an inadequate number of them left in the boxes
for the districts where the vacancies occur, the Court may fill
such vacancies by drawing the necessary number of names or
persons, from any of the districts at large; and may thereupon,
in its discretion, fill such vacancy or vacancies thus made in
the petit jury by drawing the necessary number of additional
names in the manner prescribed in this act from the district or
districts wherein such vacancy or vacancies may be; or such
vacancies in the petit jury may remain unfilled, if the court
deem it unnecessary to fill them.
415. The judge or judges of said court shall have the same
power to compel attendance of jurors, and shall proceed in all
other matters relating to jurors not provided for in this act,
as under the Public General Laws relating to jurors.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect on
and after the first day of May, 1912.
Approved April 11, 1912.
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