J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                        2061

district, with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety and in-
tegrity of such person and without the least reference to political
opinion; and of the names of such persons so selected, a list shall be
made and a certificate appended thereto by said judge or judges, that
the said list of names has been duly selected in conformity with and
according to the spirit of this Section; and the said list and certificate
shall be filed with the clerk of said court and by them preserved as
other proceedings of the court are kept.

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(a) In the Circuit Courts of the First Judicial Circuit, when said
list of names selected as directed in Section 9A is made and certified
as therein provided for, immediately thereupon the judges of said
courts in the presence of the members of the bar as aforesaid, and
such other persons who may attend, shall cause all the names selected
and placed on the list as aforesaid, to be legibly written on ballots
of equal size and of the same color and appearance, which shall be
closely folded and placed by said judges with their own hands, im-
mediately before the drawing herein provided for, into a cubiform
box of the square of twenty-four inches, to be procured for that
purpose by the clerk of said court under the direction of said judges,
and the said box shall have a number of compartments to correspond
to the number of election districts in the county, and the names of
the persons selected as aforesaid shall be placed by the judges in the
said compartments or drawers of said box, which shall respectively
bear the numbers of the districts where the persons so selected shall
respectively reside; and after so depositing the said ballots, the said
box shall be closed, and the judges shall cause the clerk or one of
his deputies, whom the judges shall designate, and who shall not be
present at the writing, folding and depositing said ballots into the
box as herein directed, to appear before them and then and there
in the presence of said judges and such other persons as may choose
to be present, to draw without looking into the same from said box,
the number of names from each compartment, as the judges shall
determine appropriate until the number of jurors deemed necessary
by the judges, for the ensuing term of court, has been drawn; and
the names appearing on said ballots as drawn shall be recorded by
the clerk in the presence of said judges in the order drawn, and
thereupon the judges shall order a venire facias directed to the
sheriff of said county, commanding him to summon as jurors to
attend at the next ensuing term of said court, the several persons
whose names shall be drawn as aforesaid; and if any such persons
are dead or sick or otherwise unable to attend or returned non est
by the sheriff, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to immediately return
the fact to said judges, who shall thereupon cause to be drawn from
said box, in the manner directed, other names in the place or stead
of the original who may be dead, disabled or absent, and shall have
the name or names of such person or persons so last aforesaid drawn
to be inserted in the said venire facias to be summoned as aforesaid,
and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff to summon the person
named to make return thereof to said court at the opening of its
session.

(b) Whenever a judge, or the judges, of the circuit court of the
counties embraced in the First Judicial Circuit, draws a jury, he or
they, after selecting from the taxables and voters, as required by
law, the list of names to be placed in the box for the drawing, and