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so last aforesaid drawn, to be inserted in the said venire facias, to be sum
moned as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff to summon
the person named to make return thereof to said court at the opening of
its session.

1916, ch. 640.

343. Whenever a judge, or the judges, of the circuit court of the
counties embraced in the First Judicial Circuit, draws a jury, he or they,
after selecting from the taxables and voters, as required by law, the list
of names to be placed in the box for the drawing, and certifying to the
list, shall cause the names on the list to be numbered, commencing with the
first name thereon, numbering upwards consecutively, and then, instead
of requiring the names on the selected list to be written on ballots and
placed in and drawn from the box, the said judge or judges drawing the
jury, in his or their discretion, and option and in lieu of such written
ballots, may cause the clerk of the circuit court for the county wherein
they are to be used to provide a number of white marbles or balls, each of
the same size and plainly marked with numbers from one consecutively
upwards to the highest number on the selected list of names certified to by
said judge or judges, which said marbles or balls shall be placed in the box
from which drawings are made in the case where ballots are used; where
the drawings are made by districts, the marbles or balls shall be deposited
in the district compartments in such way that their numbers shall corre-
spond, in each district, with the names on the judge's or judges' selected
list and the numbers thereof; the said judge, or judges, shall then cause
the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which the drawing is being
made, or one of his deputies whom the said judge or judges, shall desig-
nate, neither the one nor the other who may be so required to act to be
present at the selection of the said list of names or the numbering of the
same, to appear before him or them, and then and there in the presence of
the said judge or judges, and such other persons as may choose to attend,
to draw from the box in which the balls are placed, in the same order and
way that ballots would be drawn, without in any way looking into said
box, one by one forty-eight of said marbles or balls, and as each marble or
ball is drawn from the box it shall be handed to the judge or judges, who
shall announce the number thereon and the name on the said selected and
certified list whose number corresponds therewith; and the forty-eight
names corresponding by numbers to the forty-eight numbers on the mar-
bles or balls so drawn and the said numbers, shall be duly recorded in the
presence of the said judge or judges, who shall forthwith order a venire
facias for the persons whose names have been so drawn. The forty-eight
marbles or balls drawn shall be sealed up safely, and preserved by the
clerk; the marbles or balls that were not drawn shall remain in the box,
or boxes, wherein they were deposited, which shall be locked or sealed, to
be used in filling vacancies that may occur in the jury, in the same way
they might be filled if the drawing had been made by ballots. The intent
and meaning of this Act is not to supersede or repeal the laws now regu-