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name or names of such person or persons so last aforesaid drawn
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to be inserted in the said venire facias to be summoned as afore-
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said, and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff to summon the
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persons named to make return thereof to said court at the open-
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ing of its session; provided, however, that no person during any
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calendar year shall serve as a drawn juror oftener than one term
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of the court.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That on the first day of the term the
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judges or judge present shall designate one person from the forty-
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eight names so as aforesaid drawn to be foreman of the grand
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Foreman.
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jury, and after selecting the said foreman and causing the said
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drawers or compartments to be emptied, the remaining forty-seven
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names apportioned as near as may be to the several election dis-
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tricts shall be deposited in the said drawers or compartments
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from which they were respectively drawn, and the clerk shall in
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presence of the court draw therefrom beginning with the first
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election district twenty-two names which names together with the
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foreman so as aforesaid selected shall constitute the grand jury,
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and the remaining names shall constitute the petit jury; provided,
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however, that the foreman shall constitute and be counted as one
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Jury.
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in the apportionment for the election district in which he shall
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reside, it being the meaning of this act that the grand jury shall
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be divided as equally as may be between the election districts of
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said county, and as soon as the grand jury shall have been drawn
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the several drawers or compartments shall be emptied and the
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tickets which were taken therefrom in order to provide for the
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drawing of the grand jury shall be respectively returned to their
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several drawers or compartments for future use in drawing the
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juries of said court.
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SEC. 5. And be it enarted, That the said judges or any one of
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them shall have the same power to compel attendance of jurors
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and shall proceed in all other matters not provided in the preced-
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To compel
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ing sections as under the general law relating to jurors.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
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Elective.
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the date of its passage.
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Approved February 28, 1890.
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CHAPTEE 29.