HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                      2241

but such error when discovered may be corrected by drawing from
the appropriate box another person in place of the person so
improperly selected or drawn, and if the foreman so selected
after having been sworn should die, or for any cause be excused
by the court, the judge or judges after drawing another name to
be placed upon the panel or grand jurors, as provided in this
section, may select and appoint any one of the twenty-three
persons constituting the grand jury as foreman in place of the
foreman so dead or excused. It is understood upon passage of
this section that although there are to be three terms of court
with new petit jury panels picked for each term, that grand
juries are only to be chosen twice yearly, i.e., at the beginning
of the April and October terms, and that there are to be four
jury panels for each term instead of two. After the October
drawing of the one hundred and twenty-two jurors from the panel
of three hundred names, one hundred additional names are to be
selected in the same proportion as the three hundred names were
selected from the various councilmanic districts and placed in
the box. Under this system the four panels or twenty-five
persons each selected for the January term will be drawn from the
remainder same three hundred names selected in October, plus the
one hundred additional names that were placed in the box after
the October drawing. The April term then will start over again
with three hundred new names selected from the various
councilmanic districts to be placed in the respective drawers in
the proportion herein provided for, another one hundred and
twenty-two names drawn, a new grand jury selected, and four new
panels of petit jurors.]

[5-503.

Upon the organization of each grand jury, as now provided
for by law, and at the request of such grand jury, signified in
writing to the judge or judges of the circuit court, such judge
or judges are authorized and empowered to appoint a clerk, who
shall be a competent stenographer, who shall be subject to such
rules and orders as shall be made and passed by the circuit
court, and such clerk, if so directed and required to do so, and
not otherwise, shall have authority to be present at all sessions
of the grand jury, and shall take and transcribe the testimony
given before such grand jury, and whenever desired by the state's
attorney shall attend upon and take and transcribe the testimony
given at a coroner's inquest, and all testimony so taken and
transcribed shall be for the exclusive use of the grand jury and
the state's attorney of the county, unless otherwise ordered by
the circuit court.]

[5-504.

The person appointed clerk to the grand jury, before
entering upon the duties of such office, shall take and subscribe
before the clerk of the circuit court an oath that he will keep
secret all matters and things occurring before the grand jury, or
in such form as the circuit court may order and require.