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judge or judges of the Court in the manner prescribed in Article 51 of
the Code of Public General Laws, title "Jurors," the judge or judges may
before the convening of the term of Court to which said jurors are to be
summoned, of the names so selected choose and appoint one who shall be
foreman of the grand jury, and shall cause all the names selected, except
the name of the foreman previously chosen, to be placed by said judge or
judges in said compartments of said box respectively which bear the num-
bers of the districts where the persons so selected respectively reside. And
it shall be the duty of the said jndge or judges, when selecting the panel
of two hundred persons as provided for in Section 7 of Article 51 of the
Code of Public General Laws, to distribute the names of the persons on
said panel as nearly equal as may be possible among said compartments.
And the judge or judges, in addition to the foreman so selected, shall draw
from said compartments in all seventy-two names. And from all of said
compartments an equal number of names as near as possible. Provided,
that if the foreman so selected should die or for any cause should be dis-
qualified or be excused by the Court, the said judge or judges, after draw-
ing another name from the compartment representing the district in which
the foreman originally selected, and so dead, disqualified or excused, re-
sided, may select and appoint any one of the jurors drawn as foreman in
place of the foreman so dead, disqualified or excused. And the names so
drawn shall be duly recorded by the said judge or judges or by the clerk
in his or their presence and under his or their direction, in the order in
which they shall be drawn. And thereupon forthwith the said judge or
judges shall order a venire facias directed to the sheriff of the county, com-
manding him to summon as jurors to attend at the next ensuing term of
said Court the several persons whose names may be drawn as aforesaid;
and if any such persons whose names are so drawn and are embraced in
said venire facias shall be dead, sick or otherwise unable to attend, or shall
he absent and therefore not to be found, it shall be the duty of the sheriff
forthwith to return the fact of such death, disability or absence to the-
Court; and the said judge or judges shall thereupon cause to be drawn
from said compartments of said box in the manner hereinbefore directed,
namely, from the compartment or compartments representing the district,
or districts from which said juror or jurors, being dead, under disability
or absent, was originally drawn, other names in the place and stead of the
original persons who may be dead, under disability or absent; and shall
cause the name or names of such persons so as last aforesaid drawn to be
inserted in the venire facias to be summoned as aforesaid. And it shall
be the duty of the sheriff to summon the persons named in the venire facias-
and to make return thereof to said Court at the opening of its session.

1904, ch. 560, sec. 179. 1912 Code, sec. 337. 1912, ch. 444, sec. 179.

1914, ch. 186.

567. Of the seventy-three jurors so drawn and summoned forty-eight
including the Foreman of the Jury previously selected, to be designated
in the venire facias as "the list of forty-eight" shall be required to attend