320                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      CH. 264]

the clerk of the said court in the presence of the judge or judges, in
the order drawn, and immediately thereupon said judge or judges
shall order a venire facias, directed to the sheriff of said county,
commanding him to summon as jurors, to attend at the first day
of the next ensuing term of court the [forty-eight] seventy-three
persons whose names shall be drawn as aforesaid, and if any of the
persons so drawn be dead, sick or not found by the sheriff, it shall be
the duty of the sheriff to return the fact to the judge or judges, who
shall thereupon cause to be drawn from the 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 summoned as afore-
said, 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 selec-
tion, 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
designate one person from the [forty-eight] seventy-three names
drawn as aforesaid, to be foreman of the grand jury, and after select-
ing the foreman and causing all the drawers in the jury box to be
emptied, the [forty-seven] seventy-two 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 tak-
ing 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 un-
til all the names shall have been drawn out and recorded; the first
eighteen names, or persons so drawn, together with the foremen pre-
viously appointed, and four other names, 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] fifty 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, ab-
sence, 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