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the said box containing 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 civll or criminal, in the said circuit court, a talesman or
talesmen be required, the judge of the said court may order the
sheriff to summon such talesman 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 the preceding
section, and furnished to the said sheriff, or from the community
at large, as heretofore practised.
Munshower v. State, 56 Md. 516.

1867, ch. 329, sec. 5. 1870. ch. 381. 1878. ch. 369.

10. Of the forty-eight jurors drawn and summoned, the court,
at the beginning of the term for which they were drawn and
summoned, 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 ap-
pointed, shall constitute 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.

Cooper vs. State, 64 Md. 45.

1867, ch. 329, sec. 6. 1870, ch. 410.

11. The name of no person disqualified or exempted by exist-
ing law from serving as a juror, or whom by existing 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 article; nor shall any person be drawn and sum-
moned to two successive terms of court; but the selection or draw-
ing of any person disqualified as a juror under this article, 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