108                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                         [CH. 80

County (Everstine's 1953 Edition, being Article 17 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, as enacted by Chapter 79 of the
Acts of 1949), title "Prince George's County", sub-title "Jurors",
providing for the selection, drawing, and summoning of jurors for
said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 916 and 917 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Prince George's County (Everstine's 1953 Edition, being Article 17
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, as enacted by Chapter
79 of the Acts of 1949), title "Prince George's County", sub-title
"Jurors", be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

916. In Prince George's County there shall be procured by the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county a jury box of convenient
size, which shall be divided into as many compartments as there may
from time to time be election districts in said county, and which
compartments shall be numbered to correspond with the election
districts of the county as they now exist, or may be increased or
decreased from time to time; that when the names of the persons shall
have been selected to serve as jurors by the judge or judges of the
Court in the manner prescribed in Article 51 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Jurors", the judge or judges may before the
convening of the term of Court to which said jurors are to be sum-
moned, of the names so selected choose and appoint one who shall be
foreman of the grand jury, and shall cause all the names selected,
except the name of the foreman previously chosen, to be placed by
said judge or judges in said compartments of said box respectively
which bear the numbers of the districts where the persons so selected
respectively reside. It shall be the duty of the said judge or judges,
when selecting the panel of [two] three hundred persons as provided
for in Section 8 of Article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws, 1951
Edition, to distribute the names of the persons on said panel as nearly
equal as may be possible among said compartments. The judge or
judges, in addition to the foreman so selected, shall draw from said
compartments in all not less than [seventy-two] ninety-two nor more
than [ninety-two] one hundred and twelve names, and from all of
said compartments an equal number of names as near as possible.
Provided, that if the foreman so selected should die or for any cause
should be disqualified or be excused by the Court, the said judge or
judges, after drawing another name from the compartment repre-
senting the district in which the foreman originally selected, and so
dead, disqualified or excused, resided, may select and appoint any
one of the jurors drawn as foreman in place of the foreman so dead,
disqualified or excused. The names so drawn shall be duly recorded
by the said judge or judges or by the clerk in his or their presence and
under his or their direction, in the order in which they shall be drawn.
Thereupon forthwith the said judge or judges shall order a venire
facias directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to sum-
mon as jurors to attend at the next ensuing term of said Court the
several persons whose names may be drawn as aforesaid; and if any
such persons whose names are so drawn and are embraced in said
venire facias shall be dead, sick or otherwise unable to attend, or
shall be absent and therefore not to be found, it shall be the duty of