788

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

that in drawing the jurors for the December term

of the Circuit Court for said county, the twenty-

five names required shall be taken from those

Proviso.

remaining in the box after the drawing for the

preceding September term, six to be drawn from

the compartment for district number two, and

one from each of the other compartments; and

no name which may be so drawn to serve as juror

in Frederick county at any term of court shall be

Exemption
for two years.

replaced in said box for the period of two years

thereafter, and said names so drawn in Baltimore

and Frederick counties shall be recorded as here-

inbefore directed for the other counties, and there-

upon said judges shall forthwith order a venire

facias, directed to the sheriff of the said counties

respectively, commanding them to summon as

jurors to attend at the next ensuing term of said

courts, the several persons whose names may be

drawn as aforesaid; and if any such persons

whose names are so drawn and embraced in

Unable to

said venire facias should be dead, sick or otherwise

attend.

unable to attend, or should be absent and there-

fore not to be found, it shall be the duty of said

sheriff forthwith to return the fact of such death,

disability or absence, and the said judges shall

thereupon cause to be drawn from said box, in

Draw other

the manner hereinbefore directed, other names in

names.

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 persons, so as last

aforesaid drawn, to be inserted in the said venire

facias to be summoned as aforesaid, and it shall

be the duty of the sheriff to summon the persons

named in said venire facias, and make return there-

of to the said court at the opening of its session ;

this section shall not apply to Prince George's

county.

Approved May 3, 1882.