J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      229

[election] councilmanic district in number two; the names from the
third [election] councilmanic district in number three; the names
from the fourth [election] councilmanic district in number four; the
names from the fifth [election] councilmanic district in number five;
the names from the sixth [election] councilmanic district in number
six; and, the names from the seventh [and eighth election] council-
manic [districts] district in number seven; and after so depositing
such ballots, the box shall be closed, and the judge or judges shall
cause the clerk of the circuit court, or one of his deputies, whom
the judge or judges shall designate then and there in the presence
of the judge or judges, and such other persons as may choose to be
present, to draw, without looking into the same, from the box
[seventy-two] one hundred and twenty-two names as follows: [Nine]
Fifteen names from compartment number one; [ten] seventeen from
number two; [twelve] twenty-one from number three; [twelve]
twenty-one from number four; [twelve] twenty-one from number
five; [eleven] eighteen from number six and [seven] nine from
number seven; provided, that after the foreman has been selected
the district of his residence shall be carefully noted, and at the draw-
ing one less name than above provided shall be drawn from the
compartment representing the district in which he resides and the
names appearing on the ballots so drawn shall be recorded by the
clerk of the court, or one of his deputies, in the presence of the judge
or judges in the order drawn; and thereupon the judge or judges
shall forthwith order a venire facias directed to the sheriff of the
county commanding him to summon as jurors, to attend at the next
ensuing term of the court, on the first day thereof, the several persons
whose names may be drawn as aforesaid, and also the foreman
selected as aforesaid; and if any of the persons so drawn and em-
braced in the venire facias should be dead, sick or otherwise unable
to attend, or should be absent and therefore not to be found, it shall
be the duty of the sheriff forthwith to return the fact of such death,
disability or absence to the judge or judges, who shall thereupon
cause to be drawn from the compartment or drawer from which the
name of the person so dead, sick, returned non est or excused by the
judge or judges was drawn, another name to take the place of such
person so dead, sick, returned non est or excused, and shall cause
the name or names last as aforesaid drawn to be inserted in the
venire facias to be summoned as aforesaid; provided, that should the
person selected as foreman of the grand jury die, be returned non
est or be excused on account of sickness or for any other cause, the
judge or judges may select or appoint another person from the names
remaining on the original list provided for in this section, and the
court, at the beginning of the term for which the persons were drawn
and summoned, shall direct the clerk of the court, or one of his
deputies, to legibly write upon ballots the names of the [seventy-two]
one hundred and twenty-two jurors, and after carefully folding the
ballots separately, to place them in a box, with a sliding top, and the
clerk shall draw the ballots therefrom, one at a time, without looking
into the box, and the first twenty-two names drawn, with the foreman
previously appointed, shall constitute the grand jury, and the next
twenty-five names drawn shall constitute [one petit] the first jury
panel and the remaining [twenty-five] seventy-five names [, another
petit jury panel,] shall be thrice divided into groups of twenty-five
names constituting panels two, three and four, for the term of court,
and the name of no person disqualified if drawn shall invalidate the