4436 ARTICLE 20.

square of twenty-four inches, to be procured for that purpose by the clerka
of said courts under the direction of said judges, and the said box shall
have a number of compartments to correspond to the number of election
districts in the respective counties, and the names of the persons selected
as aforesaid shall be placed by the judges in the said compartments or
drawers of said box, which shall respectively bear the numbers of the
districts where the persons so selected shall respectively reside; and after
so depositing the said ballots, the said box shall be closed, and the judges
shall cause the clerk or one of his deputies, whom the judges shall desig-
nate, and who shall not be present at the writing, folding and depositing
said ballots into the box as herein directed, to appear before them and then
and there in the presence of said judges and such other persons as may
choose to be present, to draw without looking into the same from said box,
beginning with the compartments containing the names of the first elec-
tion district and draw from each compartment the number of names appor-
tioned by the said judges to its respective district until forty-eight ballots
shall be drawn; and the names appearing on said ballots as drawn shall
be recorded by the clerk in the presence of said judges in the order drawn,
and thereupon the judges shall order a venire facias directed to the sheriff
of said counties, commanding them to summon as jurors to attend at the
next ensuing jury term of said court, the several persons whose names
shall be drawn as aforesaid; and if any such persons are dead or sick or
otherwise unable to attend or returned non est by the sheriff, it shall be the
duty of the sheriff to immediately return the fact to said judges, who shall
thereupon cause to be drawn from said box, in the manner directed, other
names in the place or stead of the original who may be dead, disabled or
absent, and shall have the name or names of such person or persons 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.

1890, ch. 627, sec. 4.

211. The said judges shall have the same power to compel attendance
of jurors and shall proceed in all other matters not provided for in the
preceding sections as under the general law relating to jurors.*

1916, ch. 640.

212. Whenever a jndge, 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, in-
stead 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

*Sec. 5, ch. 627, 1890, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.