1256                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 575

drawer from which the name of the person so dead, sick or not found,
was drawn, another name or names to take the place of such person
dead, sick or not found by the sheriff, and shall cause the names last
as aforesaid drawn to be inserted in said venire facias to be sum-
moned as aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to summon
the person so last drawn, and make returns 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 further
that the drawing, selection or summons, of any person disqualified as
a juror by law, or otherwise, shall not invalidate the whole drawing or
selection, but such error may be corrected by drawing another person
from the box in place of the person improperly selected or drawn.

230D.

On the first day of the term the judge or judges present shall des-
ignate 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 the drawers in the jury box to be emptied, the forty-seven
names remaining of those summoned as jurors, shall be deposited in
the said drawers from which they were respectively drawn, and the
clerk of the court, in the presence of the court, or his deputy in the
presence of the court, 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 recording each as drawn,
and repeating the process until all the names shall have been drawn
out and recorded; the first eighteen names, or persons, so drawn, to-
gether with the foremen previously appointed, and four other Thames,
or persons, one of which shall be taken from each of four districts
to be designated by the court, (the residence district of the foreman
not to be one of them), which four names, or persons, shall be, in each
case, the third name among those drawn from the respective drawers
for the districts so designated, 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 and petit juries have been drawn, the
remaining one hundred and fifty-two names which were placed in the
box at the time the jury was drawn for the term shall be returned to
the respective drawers in which they were originally placed, for
future use in drawing jurors for the said court.

230E.

Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the position of foreman of the
grand jury, either temporary or permanent, caused by death, absence,
sickness or by consent of court, the court shall have power to appoint
some other member of the grand jury to be foreman during such
vacancy. If for any reason any person or persons drawn as a grand
juror or grand jurors shall fail to attend and be present at the con-
clusion of the drawing or be disqualified, or be excused for cause, the
court shall forthwith proceed to file such vacancy or vacancies from
the remaining number of 25 names of those who are present in the
order in which the names were drawn from the election district or
districts, corresponding with those from which such vacancy may be
created, as above, but if there be no names, or persons, or an inade-
quate number of them left in the boxes for the districts where the
vacancies occur, the court may fill such vacancies by drawing the
necessary number of names or persons, from any of the districts at