WORCESTER COUNTY. 5211

selected and placed on the list as aforesaid, to be legibly written on bal-
lots of equal size and of same color and appearance, which shall be closely
folded and placed by said judges with their own hands, immediately before
the drawing herein provided for, into a cubiform box of the square of
twenty-four inches, to be procured for that purpose by the clerk of said
court 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 county, 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 per-
sons 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 designate, 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 pres-
ence 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 election district and draw
from each compartment the number of names apportioned 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 county,
commanding him 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 afore-
said drawn to be inserted in the said venire facias to be summoned 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. 1920 Code, sec. 117.

90. 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.

91. Whenever a judge, or the judges, of the circuit court of the coun-
ties 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 f or 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, instead