J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      471

10.

(a) When said list of names selected as directed in Section 9 is
made and certified as therein provided for, immediately thereupon
the said judges of the said respective courts, in the presence of the
members of the bar, as aforesaid, and such other persons as may
think proper to be present, shall cause all the names selected and
placed in the list as aforesaid to be legibly written upon ballots, which
shall be of equal size and of the same color and appearance, and shall
be closely rolled or folded, and in each of the counties, except Fred-
erick, Montgomery and Carroll counties, placed by the said judges
with their own hands before the drawings herein provided for in a
cubiform box, with a sliding top of the square of eight inches, to be
procured for that purpose by the clerk of said court, under the direc-
tion of the said judges, and after so depositing said ballots, the said
box shall be closed and the said judges shall then cause the clerk, or
one of his deputies, whom the said judges shall designate (neither
the one nor the other who may be so required to act to be present at
the writing, rolling or folding and depositing said ballots into the box
as herein directed) to appear before them and then and there, in the
presence of the said judges and such other persons as may choose to
be present after well and thoroughly shaking the said box, so that
the ballots be well mixed, to draw from said box through such open-
ing made by removing the sliding top thereof as will only convenient-
ly admit the hand and without in any manner looking into said box
one by one, forty-eight of said ballots, and the names appearing on
said ballots as drawn shall be duly recorded by said judges or by
clerk, in their presence and under their direction, in the order in
which they shall be drawn. In Harford County the clerk or his desig-
nated deputy shall draw seventy-three rather than forty-eight bal-
lots. This section shall not apply to Charles County except to the
extent provided for in subsection (f), and to Prince George's County
except to the extent provided for in subsection (g).

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 remaining twenty-five names (or, in Harford, Mont-
gomery 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 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 necessity for such ap-
pointment shall occur. If for any reason any person or persons drawn