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fairly and impartially selected by said judges, with special reference to
the intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such persons) and without the
least reference to their political opinions, to be known as the grand jury
panel, provided, however, that no person shall be selected and placed upon
such panel as a juror who shall not have arrived at the age of twenty-five
years or who is over seventy years of 'age, Judges of the Orphans' Court
of said county, delegates, coroners and constables during; their continuance
in office; and also school masters, physicians, pharmacists and ministers
of the gospel shall be exempt from attendance as jurors; and of the names
of such persons when so selected, a list shall be made and a certificate
thereto appended by the said judges that the said list of names has been
duly selected in conformity with and according to the spirit and intent of
this Article, and which said list and certificates shall be filed with the
clerk of the said court and by him preserved as other proceedings of the
said court are kept; and no property qualification shall be required in any
juror drawn as herein provided.
1929, ch. 339, sec. 391D.
391D. That in the selection of a panel to consist of one hundred (100)
male persons as provided for in the preceding section, and to be known as
the grand jury panel, the total of one hundred names shall be selected
from the fifteen districts of said county in the following proportions:
twelve names from District No. 1, seven names from District No. 2, six
names from District No. 3, five names from District No. 4, two names
from District No. 5, two names from District No. 6, three names from
District No. 7, seven names from District No. 8, twelve names from
District No. 9, two names from District No. 10, seven names from Dis-
trict No. 11, seven names from District No. 12, eight names from District
No. 13, eight names from District No. 14, and twelve names from Dis-
trict No. 15.
1929, ch. 339, sec. 391E.
391E. That when said list of names selected as directed in the pre-
ceding Sections 391A and 391B is made and certified as therein pro-
vided for, immediately thereupon the said judges of said court, in the
presence of the members of the Bar as aforesaid, and such other persons
as may think proper to be present, shall cause all of the names selected
and placed in the list as aforesaid, to be legibly written upon ballots, which
shall be of equal size and of the same color and appearance, and shall
be closely rolled or folded and placed by said judges with their own hands
before the drawings herein provided for, in a box of sufficient size, to be
marked Petit Jury Box, the said box being divided into fifteen (15) com-
partments, which shall be numbered to correspond with the district of
said county, with a sliding top therein to be procured for that purpose by
the clerk of said court under the direction of said judges, and the names
of the persons selected as aforesaid from the respective districts shall be
placed by the said judges in the said compartments of said box, respec-
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