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ing term of said Circuit Court; and of the remaining forty-seven names,
the first twenty-two in the order in which they were drawn shall with the
foreman selected as aforesaid constitute the grand jury, and the remain-
ing twenty-five shall constitute the petit jury for the term of court for
which they have been drawn, and said names shall be recorded as drawn
for the respective juries to which they belong; and thereupon the said
Judge or Judges shall forthwith order a venire facias, directed to the
Sheriff of said County, commanding him to summon as grand jurors to
attend on the first day of the next ensuing term of said Court the several
persons whose names have been drawn and selected as grand jurors as
aforesaid, and also commanding the said Sheriff to summon as petit jurors
to attend on the first Thursday of the next ensuing term of said court the
several persons whose name have been drawn as petit jurors as aforesaid.
If any such persons whose names are so drawn and embraced in said
venire facias should be dead, sick or otherwise unable to attend, or should
be absent and therefore not be found, it shall be the duty of said Sheriff
forthwith to return the fact of such death, disability or absence; and the
said Judge or Judges shall cause to be drawn from said box, in the man-
ner hereinbefore directed, other names in the place and stead of the orig-
inal grand or petit jurors who may be dead, sick or otherwise unable to
attend, or absent and not found, or who are disqualified, or who are for
sufficient cause excused by the Court prior to that time, the first named
in order drawn to constitute additional grand jurors to fill vacancies oc-
curring as aforesaid, and the remainder drawn to be petit jurors to fill
vacancies thus occurring; and shall cause the name or names of such per-
son or persons so as last aforesaid drawn, to be inserted in the venire facias,
to be summoned as grand or petit jurors, as the case may be, and it shall
be the duty of the Sheriff to summon the persons named in said venire
facias and make return thereof to the said Court at or before the begin-
ning of the term.

If the person selected as aforesaid as foreman of the grand jury be not
present at the beginning of the term for which he was selected, or be
excused by the Court from serving as such foreman, the Court shall on
the first day of the term select as foreman some other person drawn and
summoned to serve as a grand juror, but one so excused from serving as
foreman may in the discretion of the court be required to serve as a grand
juror, unless disqualified or exempt.

If vacancies are to be filled before the beginning of a term as herein
provided for, the court may by its order in writing authorize and direct
the Clerk of the Court to draw from the box such additional jurors as are
necessary to fill vacancies, and such drawing shall have the same effect
as if made in the presence of one or more of the Judges of the court.

1914, ch. 837, sec. 127D.

229. Immediately after the said forty-eight have been so drawn and
the numbers thereon and the names corresponding thereto have been
recorded as provided in Section 227, the Judge or Judges shall place the