WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR 345
beginning of the next regular jury term. A box of the form
aforesaid shall be procured and of convenient size, and
said box shall be divided into as many compartments as
there may be election districts in said county, shall be
numbered to correspond with the election districts in said
county, and the names of the persons selected as aforesaid
shall be placed by the said judges in the said compartments
of said box, respectively, which bear the number of elec-
tion districts where the persons so selected, respectively
reside, and there shall then be drawn in the manner herein-
before provided for the other counties. [Two names from
Compartment No. 1, two names from No. 2, three from
No. 3, six from No. 4, four from No. 5, two from No. 6,
eight from No. 7, three from No. 8, three from No. 9, two
from No. 10, two from No. 11, two from No. 12 and nine
from No. 13.] // 72 names are drawn, they shall be drawn
as follows: three names from Compartment No. 1, three
names from No. 2, five names from No. 3, nine names from
No. 4, six names from No. 5, three names from No. 6,
twelve names from No. 7, four names from No. 8, four
names from No. 9, three names from No. 10, three names
from No. 11, three names from No. 12, and fourteen names
from No. 13. If more than 72 names are drawn, they shall
be drawn in approximately the same ratio. No names
which may be so drawn to serve as a regular juror in
Montgomery County at any term of court shall be replaced
in said box for a period of two years thereafter.
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 (except that in Montgomery County
the foreman shall be selected from the original panel of
three hundred names, with his name being included among
the jurors drawn and summoned), and shall direct the
clerk of said court to legibly write upon ballots the names
of the remaining forty-seven jurors, and after carefully
folding said ballots separately to place them in a box with
a sliding top, and said clerk shall draw said ballots there-
from one at a time without looking into said box and the
first twenty-two names drawn, with the foreman previously
appointed, shall constitute the grand jury, and the remain-
ing twenty-five names (or, in Montgomery County, the re-
maining number of names) shall constitute the petit jury
for said term of court; 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 power to appoint some other
member of the grand jury foreman as often as the neces-
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