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the Code of Public General Laws, the judge or judges of said court
may, in his or their discretion, in lieu thereof, require the clerk of
said court to provide a box of sufficient dimensions and further, to
provide seventy-three white balls in addition to those provided for in
the preceding section, each of the same size and plainly marked with
numbers from one to seventy-three 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,
and shall direct the clerk of the court to withdraw from the balls
aforesaid the ball containing the number corresponding with the
number of the one so selected and appointed as foreman, as the
same appears in the list of seventy-three jurors as numbered upon
the drawing thereof, as provided in the preceding section, and said
remaining seventy-two balls shall be placed in said box by the judge
or judges and thoroughly shaken and well mixed, and the said judge
or judges shall then cause the clerk of said court to draw from the
said box, through the opening made by removing the sliding top
thereof, as will only conveniently admit the hand, and without in any
way looking into said box, one by one, twenty-two of said balls, and
as each of said balls is drawn from said box it shall be handed by
said clerk to the said judge or judges, who shall announce the number
thereon, together with the name on the list of seventy-three jurors
drawn and summoned and numbered as aforesaid, corresponding to
said number. The said twenty-two names so announced correspond-
ing to the twenty-two numbers so drawn shall, with said numbers,
be duly recorded by said judge or judges or by the clerk in his or
their presence, and under his or their directions, in the order in which
they shall respectively be drawn, and said jurors so drawn, together
with the foreman selected and appointed as aforesaid, shall con-
stitute the grand jury for said term of court. If for any reason any
person or persons drawn as a grand juror or as grand jurors, as
aforesaid, shall fail to attend and be present at the conclusion of the
drawing aforesaid, or be disqualified or excused for cause, the court
shall forthwith proceed to fill such vacancy or vacancies from the
remaining number of fifty names in the manner aforesaid, of those
who are present in the order in which said vacancy or vacancies shall
exist, the juror first drawn to fill such vacancy, and who shall be
present to be substituted in the place and stead of the first vacancy
on the list, and so on until all vacancies are filled. The said judge or
judges may thereupon, in his or their discretion, fill such vacancy or
vacancies thus made in the petit juries by drawing the necessary
number of additional names therefor in the manner provided in
Section 538 of this subtitle.]

[18-1.

The County Commissioners shall levy a sufficient sum, in advance,
to pay the jurors attending the Circuit Court, promptly at the close
of each jury term thereof.]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved April 26, 1972.