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said lists who may have been drawn to serve as petit jurors in other
courts of said city at said term. The judges shall, after so cor-
recting and completing the list of grand jurors for the city of
Baltimore, so before made out by them, attest the said list of
grand jurors as so corrected, by their certificate and signatures
thereto. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore shall, at
the beginning of each term of the said court, designate the fore-
man of the grand jury for the city of Baltimore for the said
ensuing term, from among the number of grand jurors selected
as aforesaid for said city; and in case of the disqualification, sick
ness, absence or death of said foreman, or of any foreman of said
grand jury, may designate another from among the number of
said grand jury, who shall act as such foreman.
1883, ch. 67. 1884, ch. 450.
586. The said judges of the supreme bench of Baltimore city,
or one or more of them, shall, at one or more of the meetings
provided for in the last preceding section of this sub-title of this
article, after the selection of the grand juries for the city of
Baltimore, as provided in the last preceding section, cause all the
names selected by the judges as aforesaid, remaining upon said
list of qualified jurors, to be inscribed upon ballots, which shall
be of equal size, color and appearance, and shall be closely folded
and shall be placed by one of such judges, with his own hands,
on the day of said meeting, and immediately before the drawing
herein provided for, in a drawing wheel to be provided for that
purpose by the sheriff of Baltimore city, under the direction of
said judges; the said judge shall then cause the said sheriff, or
such one of his deputies as he shall designate, to appear before
him; and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff or his said deputy
in the presence and in the immediate view of the said judge or
judges, and of such other persons as may choose to attend, to draw
one by one from said wheel the ballots contained therein until
four hundred of said ballots have been drawn therefrom; and the
said judge or judges shall cause the said wheel to be turned upon
its axis before the commencement of said drawing, and after the
ballots have been deposited therein, and after the drawing of each
ballot, and before the drawing of the next, until four hundred of
said ballots shall have been drawn; and said judge or judges shall
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