480                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      CH. 413]

except the name of the foreman, to be legibly written on ballots of
equal size and the same color and appearance, which shall be closely
folded and placed by the judge or judges, with their own hands,
immediately before the drawing herein provided for, into a cubiform
box of the square of twenty inches, to be procured for that purpose
by the clerk of the court, under the direction of the judge or judges
of the court, which box shall have seven compartments or
drawers, which shall be numbered to correspond with the numbers
of the respective councilmanic districts of the county; and the names
of the persons so selected as aforesaid, except the name of the fore-
men shall be placed by the judge or judges in the compartments
or drawers as follows: The names selected from the first council-
manic district in number one; the names from the second council-
manic district in number two; the names from the third councilmanic
district in number three; the names from the fourth councilmanic
district in number four; the names from the fifth councilmanic
district in number five; the names from the sixth councilmanic
district in number six; and, the names from the seventh councilmanic
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 one hundred and [twenty-two]
twenty-three names as follows: Fifteen names from compartment
number one; seventeen from number two; twenty-one from number
three; twenty-one from number four; twenty-one from number five;
[eighteen] nineteen from number six and nine from number seven;
provided, that after the foreman has been selected the district of his
residence shall be carefully noted, and at the drawing one less name
than above provided shall be drawn from the compartment represent-
ing 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 embraced 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 ab-
sence 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