1416 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 801

after drawing for the preceding November 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 Feb-
ruary term of said court, place in said compartment in
proper proportion a sufficient number of names as afore-
said to make the aggregate number one hundred.

(f) And the said names so drawn in Frederick,
Montgomery and Carroll Counties shall be recorded
as hereinbefore directed for the other counties, and there-
upon the said judges shall forthwith order a venire facias,
directed to the sheriff of said counties, respectively, com-
manding them to summon as jurors to attend at the next
ensuing terms 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 attend, 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 there-
upon cause to be drawn from said box in the manner here-
inbefore 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 Baltimore, or
Prince George's County, nor to Dorchester, Wicomico,
Anne Arundel, St. Mary's, Caroline, Somerset, Worcester,
Garrett, Allegany, Queen Anne's, Talbot, or other counties,
as to which special provision is made by the local law
therefor.

10. Of the forty-eight jurors drawn and summoned,
the court at the beginning of the term for which they were
drawn and summoned shall select and appoint one as fore-
man of the grand jury and shall direct the clerk of said
court to legibly write upon ballots the names of the remain-
ing forty-seven jurors, and after carefully folding said
ballots separately to place them in a box with a sliding top,