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and nine from the Fourteenth Election District; and there
shall then be drawn in the manner hereinbefore provided for
the other counties, four names from compartment No. 1, four
from No. 2, three from No. 3, four from No. 4, three from No.
5, five from No. 6, nine from No. 7, three from No. 8, two from
No. 9, two from No. 10, three from No. 11, two from No. 12, two
from No. 13 and two from No. 14; provided, that in drawing
the jurors for the February term of the Circuit Court for said
county, the twenty-five names required shall be taken from
those remaining in the box after drawing for the preceding No-
vember term, two to be drawn from compartment No. 1, two
from No. 2, two from No. 3, two from No. 4, one from No. 5,
three from No. 6, four from No. 7, two from No. 8, one from
No. 9, one from No. 10, two from No. 11, one from No. 12, one
from No. 13 and one from No. 14; if from any cause the number
of names remaining in said compartments after the drawing
for the November term of said courts, be less than one hundred
in the aggregate, then in that event the judge or judges of said
court shall, before the drawing for the February term of said
court, place in said compartments in proper proportion a suffi-
cient number of names as aforesaid to make the aggregate num-
ber one hundred.
And the said names so drawn in Baltimore, Frederick, Mont-
gomery and Carroll counties shall be recorded as hereinbefore
directed for the other counties, and thereupon the said judges
shall forthwith order a venire facias, directed to the sheriff of
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; if any
such persons whose names are so drawn and embraced in said
venire facias should be dead, sick or otherwise unable to at-
tend, or should be absent and therefore not be found, it shall be
the duty of said sheriff forthwith to return the fact of said
death, disability or absence, and said judges shall thereupon
cause to be drawn from said box in the manner hereinbefore
directed other names in 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 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 thereof to the
said court at the opening of its session. This section shall not
apply to Prince George's county, nor to Dorchester, Wicomico,
Anne Arundel, St. Mary's, Caroline, Somerset, Worcester, Gar-
rett, Allegany, Queen Anne's, Talbot or other counties, as to
which special provision is made by the local law therefor.
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