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drawn and to make return thereof to the Court at the opening
of its session; provided, however, that no person shall be drawn
and summoned to two successive terms of Court; and provided
that the selection, drawing or summoning of any person dis-
qualified by law as a Juror, or otherwise, or who my be drawn
from a district in which he does not reside, shall not invalidate
the whole drawing, but such error may be corrected by drawing
another person from the drawer for the district from which
such disqualified, or non-resident, person was drawn, in the
place of the person improperly selected and drawn.

141 A. On the first day of the term, the Judge, or Judges,
present shall designate one person from the forty-eight names
drawn as aforesaid to be Foreman of the Grand Jury and, after
selecting the Foreman and causing all drawers in the Jury box
to be emptied, the forty-seven names of those remaining of those
drawn as Jurors as aforesaid, shall be deposited in the drawers
from which they were drawn respectively, and the Clerk of the
Court, in its presence, shall draw them therefrom, beginning
with drawer number one and taking one name out and recording
it and then taking one name from each of the other drawers
successively, in the numerical order of the drawers, and record-
ing each name as drawn, and repeating the process until all the
names shall have been drawn out and recorded; the first twenty-
two persons whose names are so drawn, together with the Fore-
man previously selected as aforesaid, shall constitute the Grand
Jury and the remaining twenty-five shall constitute the Petit
Jury for said term of Court. As soon as the Grand Jury and
Petit Juries have been drawn, the other ballots which were
placed in the box at the time the forty-eight persons were drawn
to serve as Jurors, shall be returned to the respective drawers
in which they were originally placed, for further use in draw-
ing any additional Jurors needed to fill vacancies.

142 A. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the position of
Foreman of the Grand Jury, either temporary or permanent,
caused by sickness, death, absence, or by permission of the
Court, the Court shall appoint some other member of the Grand
Jury to be Foreman thereof during such vacancy. If for any
reason any person or persons drawn as a Grand Juror, shall
fail to attend the session on the first day thereof and answer to
his name at the end of the drawing, or be disqualified, or be
excused for cause, the Court shall forthwith proceed to fill such
vacancy or vacancies from the remaining number of twenty-five
names of those who are present, in the order in which their