1638 ARTICLE 6.

judges or judge shall order a venire facias directed to the sheriff of said
county, commanding him to summon as jurors, to attend at the next en-
suing jury term of said court, the several persons whose names shall be
drawn, as aforesaid; and if any such persons are dead, or by sickness or
any other cause are unable to attend, or returned non est by the sheriff,
it shall be the duty of the sheriff to immediately return the fact to the
said judges or judge, who shall thereupon cause to be drawn from the
compartments of said box for the election district in which said deceased
or sick juror resided, in the manner directed, other names in the place
or stead of the original who may be dead, disabled or absent, and shall
have the name or names of such person or persons so last aforesaid drawn
to be inserted in the said venire facias to be summoned as aforesaid; and
it shall be the duty of the said sheriff to summon the persons named to
make return thereof to said court at the opening of its session; provided,
however, that no person, during any calendar year, shall serve as a drawn
juror oftener than one term of the court.

1890, ch. 28, sec. 4.

345. On the first day of the term the judges or judge present shall
designate one person from the forty-eight names so as aforesaid drawn to
be foreman of the grand jury, and after selecting the said foreman and
causing the said drawers or compartments to be emptied, the remaining
forty-seven names apportioned as near as may be to the several election
districts shall be deposited in the said drawers or compartments from
which they were respectively drawn, and the clerk shall in presence of
the court draw therefrom beginning with the first election district twenty-
two names which names together with the foreman so as aforesaid selected
shall constitute the grand jury, and the remaining names shall constitute
the petit jury; provided, however, that the foreman shall constitute and
be counted as one in the apportionment for the election district in which
he shall reside, it being the meaning of this act that the grand jury shall
be divided as equally as may be between the election districts of said
county, and as soon as the grand jury shall have been drawn the several
drawers or compartments shall be emptied and the tickets which were
taken therefrom in order to provide for the drawing of the grand jury
shall be respectively returned, to their several drawers or compartments
for future use in drawing the juries of said court.

1890, ch. 28, sec. 5.

346. The said judges or any one of them shall have the same power
to compel attendance of jurors and shall proceed in all other matters not
provided in the preceding sections as under the general law relating to
jurors,

1914, ch. 72.

347. Whenever a judge, or the judges, of the Circuit Court of the
Counties embraced in the Second Judicial Circuit, draws a jury, he or