2060                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 891

12.

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 foreman of the grand jury (except
that in Montgomery County the foreman shall be selected from the
original panel of five hundred names, with his name being included
among the jurors drawn and summoned and in Washington County
the foreman shall be selected from the list of names presently being
used as a panel in said county, as provided in Section 9 of this article,
and in Charles County the foreman shall be selected from its original
panel of names presently being used in said county), 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 therefrom 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 re-
maining twenty-five names (or, in Montgomery and Washington
counties the remaining 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 perma-
nent, 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 necessity for such appointment shall occur. 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 conclusion of the
drawing or be disqualified or excused for cause the court shall forth-
with proceed to fill such vacancies from the aforesaid remaining
number of twenty-five names of those who are present in the order
in which the names Were drawn from the box and may thereupon
in its discretion fill such vacancy or vacancies thus made in the petit
jury by drawing the necessary number of additional names therefor
in manner provided by Section 10 of this article. In Charles County
and Prince George's County the "pellet system" set out in Section
10 (f) and Section 10 (g) shall be used in the selection of grand and
petit juries. In Calvert County the system of marbles, balls, or pellets,
as set out in Section 10 (a-1) shall be used in the selection of grand
juries and petit juries. This section is modified as to Allegany Coun-
ty, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, Worcester and Talbot County.
This section shall not apply to Baltimore County, as to which special
provision is made by the local law therefor.

9A.

It shall be the duty of the judges of the respective Circuit Courts
of the First Judicial Circuit, comprising Dorchester, Somerset, Wi-
comico and Worcester counties, not less than fifteen days before the
beginning of each term of the court at which jurors are required to
attend, in the presence of such members of the bar of said court as
shall attend, notice of the time and place having been given to said bar
through the clerk of said court to proceed to select from the poll-
books of the several election districts of said county that shall be
returned and filed in the clerk's office of said courts after any gen-
eral election last held, a panel that shall consist of the names of two
hundred persons in said county fairly and impartially selected, of
the age aforesaid, by the judge or judges, out of the election districts
of said county in proportion to the inhabitants or residents of each