ART. 62. ] JURIES.

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4. Immediately after each drawing for jurors as directed in the
preceding section and for talesmen as hereinafter directed and with-
out suffering the said ballots remaining in said box to be taken out,
or in any manner removed therefrom, or inspected, or examined, or
the said box to be looked into or removed from his presence by any
person whatever, the said judge of the said respective courts shall
close said box and either lock or seal the same securely, and keep-
ing the key or, seal thereof himself, shall deposit the said box con-
taining the remaining ballots with the clerk of the said court to be
by him safely kept, free from any handling or interference by any
person whatever, unless it be in the presence of the said judge, and
by his direction, and then only in the manner herein directed, and
if for the trial of any cause or causes, whether civil or criminal in

1867, c 329, s 4
Judge of the
court to have
charge of the
ballot box

the said Circuit Court, a talesman or talesmen be required, the
judge of the said court may order the sheriff to summon such tales-
man or talesmen either from a list of names that shall be drawn from
the said box containing the said ballots in the mode and manner as
directed by section three hereof and furnished to the said sheriff;
or from the community at large as heretofore practiced.

Talesmen.

5. Of the forty-eight jurors drawn and summoned, the court, at
the beginning of the term for which they were drawn and sum-
moned, shall select and appoint one who shall be the foreman of the
grand jury, and shall direct the clerk of said court to legibly write
upon ballots the names of the remaining forty -seven jurors, and
after carefully folding said ballots separately, to place them in a box
with a sliding top, and said clerk shall draw said ballots therefrom
one at a time, without looking into said box, and the first twenty-
two names drawn, with the foreman previously appointed, shall con-
stitute the grand jury, and the remaining twenty-five names shall
constitute the petit jury for said term of said court. This section
shall not apply to Prince George's county.

1870, c 331;
1878, c 369
Who shall be
the grand and
petit jurors.

6. The name of no person disqualified or exempted by law from
serving as a juror, or who by law the sheriff is forbidden to summon
as such, shall be selected and placed upon the panel or list, from
which the drawing is to be made as directed by this act; nor shall
any person be drawn and summoned to two courts successively, but
the selection or drawing of any person disqualified as a juror under
this act, shall not invalidate the drawing or selection, but such error
may be corrected by drawing another person from the box in place
of the person improperly selected or drawn; and the said court shall
have full power and authority to coerce the attendance of jurors
drawn and summoned under this act, and to punish by fine or im-
prisonment, or both, for any default or contempt committed in dis-
regarding such summons.

1870, c 410, s 6
Disqualified or
exempted per-
sons not to be
placed on list.

7. Before the drawing of any new panel of jurors from the tax-
lists and poll books as provided in sections one and two hereof, it
shall be the duty of the said courts to have the box in which the

1867, c 329, s 7.
Ballot box to be
emptied