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of said court, or one of his deputies, whom the said judge or judges shall
designate, and who shall not have been present at the writing, folding
and depositing of said ballots into the box, as herein directed, to appear
before him or them, and then and there, in the presence of said judge or
judges and such other persons as may choose to be present, to draw, with-
out looking into the same, from said box forty-eight names, as follows:
Eight names from compartment number one, six from number two, nine
from number three, five from number four, nine from number five, five
from number six, and six from number seven; and the names appearing on
said ballots so drawn shall be recorded by the clerk of the said Circuit
Court, in the presence of the said judge or judges, in the order drawn,
and immediately thereupon said judge or judges shall order a venire facias,
directed to the sheriff of said county, commanding him to summon as
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 are dead, sick or returned non est 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 compartment or drawer
from which the name of the person so dead, sick or returned non est, or
excused by the judge or judges, was drawn another name or names to take
the place of such person so dead, sick or returned non esi, or excused,
and shall cause the name or 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 as aforesaid, 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.

1900, ch. 618, sec. 4.

251. On the first day of the term the judge or judges 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 remain-
ing forty-seven names, apportioned as near as may be to the several elec-
tion districts, shall be deposited in the said drawers or compartments from
which they were respectively drawn, and the clerk shall in the presence of
the court draw therefrom from the several districts, beginning with the first
district and so on successively; the remaining forty-seven names and the
first twenty-two names drawn together with the foreman previously ap-
pointed shall constitute the grand jury, and the remaining twenty-five
names shall constitute the petit jury for said term of court; 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 and the petit jury shall be
divided as equally as may be between the election districts of said county,
and as soon as the grand and petit Junes shall be drawn, the remaining
one hundred and two names shall be, respectively, returned to their several