ART. 16. ] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY.

any manner looking into said box, one by one, seventy-
three of said ballots, and the names appearing on said
ballots, as drawn, shall be duly recorded by the said
judge or by the clerk, in his presence and under his
direction, in the order in which they shall be drawn,
and thereupon forthwith the said judge shall order a
venire facias, directed to the sheriff of the said county,

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commanding him to summons as jurors, to attend at
the next ensuing term of said court, the several persons
whose names may be drawn, as aforesaid; and if any
such persons, whose names are 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 duty of the sheriff
forthwith to return the fact of such death, disability
or absence, and the said judge shall thereupon cause to
be drawn from said box, in the manner hereinbefore
directed, other names, in the place and stead of the
original, who may be dead, disabled or absent, and
shall cause the name or names of such person or per-
sons so as last aforesaid drawn, to be invested in the
said venire facias, to be summoned, as aforesaid; and
it shall be the duty of the sheriff to summon the per-
sons named in said venire facias, and make return
thereof to said court at the opening of its session.

Summoning
jurors.

63. Of the seventy-three jurors drawn and sum-
moned, the twenty-three names first occurring in the
'order in which they were drawn, shall constitute and
be the grand jury for the ensuing term of said court,
and the remaining fifty names next in order in the
drawing shall constitute and be the petit jury of the
said ensuing term of the said court; and the judge of

Who shall be
the grand and
petit jurors.

the said respective courts shall divide the petit jurors
into two panels, one of which shall serve during the
first week of the said court and the other during the
second week; and the said court may make such order
for the alternate attendance of the said panels during
the sessions of the court, as the said court may deem
necessary; the persons who shall in said lists be
allotted to serve during the second week of the court,

Petit jurors di-
vided into two
panels.