462 ARTICLE 2.

list and certificate shall be filed with the clerk of said court and by him be
preserved as other proceedings of the said court are kept.

When said list of names, selected as directed by the preceding section
of said Act, is made and certified as hereinbefore provided, immediately
thereupon the judge or judges of said court, in the presence of the 'members
of the bar as aforesaid, and such other persons as may attend, of the said
list of two hundred and forty names, shall select and appoint one who shall
be foreman of the grand jury, and shall cause all the names selected and
placed on the list aforesaid, except th name of the foreman, to be legibly
written on ballots of equal size and the same color and appearance, which
shall be closely folded and placed by said judge or judges, with their own
hands, immediately before the drawing herein provided for, into a cubi-
form box of the square of twenty inches, to be procured for that purpose by
the clerk of said court, under the direction of the judge or judges of said
court, which box shall have seven compartments or drawers, which shall be
numbered to correspond with the numbers of the respective election dis--
tricts of said county; and the names of the persons so selected as aforesaid,
except name of the foreman, shall be placed by the judge or judges in the
compartments or drawers as follows: The names selected from the First
Election District in number one; the names from the Second Election Dis-
trict in number two; the names from the Third Election District in num-
ber three; the names from the Fourth Election District in number four;
the names from the Fifth Election District in number five; the names
from the Sixth Election District in number six; and the names from the
Eighth Election District in number seven; and after so depositing the said
ballots, the said box shall be closed, and the judge or judges shall cause the
Clerk of said Circuit Court, or one of his deputies, whom the said judge or
judges shall designate 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-seven names as follows : Six
names from compartment number one; six from number two; seven from
number three; seven from number four; seven from number five; nine
from number six; and six from number seven; provided that after the
foreman has been selected the district of his residence shall be carefully
noted, and at said drawing one less name than above provided shall be
drawn from the compartment representing the district in which he resides
in order that the same number of names may be drawn from each district
as before the passage of this Act, and the names appearing on said ballots
so drawn shall be recorded by the clerk of the said court, or one of his
deputies, in the presence of the said judge or judges in order drawn; and
thereupon said judge or judges shall forthwith order a venire facias di-
rected to the sheriff of said county commanding him to summon as jurors,
to attend at the next ensuing term of said court, on the first day thereof,
the several persons whose names may be drawn as aforesaid, and also the
foreman selected as aforesaid; and if any of the persons so drawn and
embraced in said venire facias should be dead, sick or otherwise unable to
attend, or should be absent and therefore not to be found, it shall be the