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into the box herein directed) 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 the 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-
three of said ballots, and the names appearing on said ballots withdrawn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 grand jury panel for the
term of said court immediately following said drawing, and in drawing
the twenty-three names aforesaid the said ballots shall be drawn in the
following manner: Two names from District No. 1, two names from Dis-
trict No. 2, one name from District No. 3, one name from District No. 4,
one name from District No. 5, one name from District No. 6, one name
from District No. 7, two names from District No. 8, two names from
District No. 9, one name from District No. 10, one name from District
No. 11, two names from District No. 12, two names from District No. 13
two names from District No. 14 and two names from District No. 15,
making a total of twenty-three grand jurors for the term immediately fol-
lowing said selection, and said judges shall designate one of said grand
jurors so drawn as the foreman of the said grand jury.

1929, ch. 339, sec. 391G.

391G. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the position of foreman of
the grand jury, either temporary or permanent, by death, absence, sickness
or any other cause, the court shall have the power to appoint some other
member of the grand jury foreman as often as the necessity for appoint-
ment shall occur. If for any reason any person or persons drawn as a
grand juror or as grand jurors shall fail to attend and be present at the
beginning of the next term of said court following such selection or be
disqualified or excused for cause, the court shall forthwith proceed to fill
such vacancy from the aforesaid remaining number of names on the grand
jury panel from the district or districts of said county, which is the resi-
dence of the juror or jurors creating the vacancy, and said court shall
have the same power and proceed in the same manner as herein prescribed
for the filling of vacancies on the grand jury, in filling vacancies which
might occur for the same reasons as herein set forth, in the case of petit
juror or petit jurors selected as hereinbefore provided, said vacancy or
vacancies being filled always from the compartment, in the case of petit
jurors, from the respective district which is the residence of the juror or
jurors creating such vacancies.

1929, ch. 339. sec. 391H.

391H. That the jurors of Baltimore County shall receive five dollars
for each and every day they shall attend the Circuit Court for Baltimore