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656 ARTICLE 3.

tively, which bear the numbers of the districts where the persons so
selected respectively reside, and after so depositing said ballots, the said
box shall be closed and the said judges shall then cause the clerk, or one
of hia deputies, whom the said judges shall designate (neither the one
nor the other who may be so required to act, to be present at the writing,
rolling or folding and depositing of said ballots into the box as herein di-
rected), to appear -then and there in the presence of the said judges and
such other persons as may choose to be present, after well and thoroughly
shaking said box so that the ballots in the fifteen compartments thereof
be well mixed, to draw from said box through such opening made by
removing the sliding top thereof as will conveniently admit the hand and
exposing but one of said compartments at any one time and without in
any manner looking into said box one by one, twenty-five of said ballots,
and the names appearing on said ballots withdrawn shall be duly recorded
by said judges or by the clerk, in their presence and under their direction,
in the order in which they shall be drawn and the said list so drawn shall
constitute and be the petit jury panel for the term of said court imme-
diately following said drawing, and in drawing the twenty-five names
aforesaid the said ballots shall be drawn in the following manner: two
names from Compartment No. 1, two names from No. 2, two names from
No. 3 one name from No. 4, one name from No. 5, one name from No. 6,
one name from No. 7, two names from No. 8, two names from No. 9, one
name from No. 10, two names from No. 11, two names from No. 12, two
names from No. 13, two names from No. 14 and two names from No. 15.

1929, ch. 339, sec. 391F.

391F. That when said list of names selected as directed in the pre-
ceding Sections 391C and 391D, known as the grand jury panel is made
and certified as therein provided for, immediately thereupon the said
judges of said court, in the presence of the members of the Bar aforesaid,
and such other persons as may think proper to be present, shall cause all
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 Grand Jury Box, the said box being divided
into fifteen (15) compartments, 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 re-
spective districts shall be placed by the said judges in the said compart-
ments of said box, respectively, which bear the numbers of the districts
where the person so selected, respectively, reside, and after so depositing
said ballots, the said box shall be closed and the said judges shall then
cause the clerk, or one of his deputies, whom the said judges shall desig-
nate (neither the one nor the other who may be so required to act, to be
present at the writing, rolling or folding and depositing of said ballots

 

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