1988 ARTICLE 8.

jurors, to attend at the first day of the next ensuing term of court the
forty-eight persons whose names shall be drawn as aforesaid, 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 dis-
qualified 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.

1912. ch. 815, sec. 413.

224. On the first day of the term the judge or judges present shall
designate one person from the forty-eight names drawn as aforesaid, to
be foreman of the grand jury, and after selecting the foreman and caus-
ing all the drawers in the jury box to be emptied, the forty-seven names
remaining of those summoued 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 number 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 persons, so drawn, together with the foremen previously ap-
pointed, and four other names, or persons, one of which shall be taken
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 remaining 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.

1912, ch. 815, sec. 414.

225. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the position of foreman 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