ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 955

compartments thereof be well mixed, to draw from said box
through such opening made by removing the sliding top thereof
as will conveniently admit the hand and exposing but one of
said compartments at any one time and without in any manner
looking into said box one by one, twenty-three of said ballots,
and the names appearing on said ballots withdrawn shall be
duly recorded by said judges or by the clerk, in their presence
and under their direction, in the order in which they shall be
drawn and the said list so drawn shall constitute and be the
grand jury panel for the term of said court immediately fol-
lowing said drawing, and in drawing the twenty-three names
aforesaid the said ballots shall be drawn in the following man-
ner: Two names from District No. 1, two names from District,
No. 2, one name from District No. 3, one name from District
No. 4, one name from District No. 5, one name from District
No. 6, one name from District No. 7, two names from District
No. 8, two names from District No. 9, one name from District
No. 10, one name from District No. 11, two names from Dis-
trict No. 12, two names from District No. 13, two names from
District No. 14 and two names from District No. 15, making
a total of twenty-three grand jurors for the term immediately
following said selection, and said judges shall designate one of
said grand jurors so drawn as the foreman of the said grand
jury.

391G. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the position of
foreman of the grand jury, either temporary or permanent,
by death, absence, sickness or any other cause, the court shall
have the power to appoint some other member of the grand
jury foreman as often as the necessity for appointment shall
occur. If for any reason any person or persons drawn as a
grand juror or as grand jurors shall fail to attend and be
present at the beginning of the next term of said court follow-
ing such selection or be disqualified or excused for cause,
the court shall forthwith proceed to fill such vacancy from
the aforesaid remaining number of names on the grand jury
panel from the district or districts of said county, which is
the residence of the juror or jurors creating the vacancy, and
said court shall have the same power and proceed in the same
manner as herein prescribed for the filling of vacancies on
the grand jury, in filling vacancies which might occur for
the same reasons as herein set forth, in the case of petit juror
or petit jurors selected as hereinbefore provided, said vacancy
or vacancies being filled always from the compartment, in