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the list, upon cause duly assigned in such notice; and the Registrar, immediately after the expiration of the time for posting the list, shall forward the same and such notices as may be so served on him to the Clerk of Councils.
(3) The Legislative Council may strike off from or add to the list such name or any other name as to the Council may appear fit, and shall mark off not less than twenty-four of the names to be formed into a separate list which shall be designated the Special Jurors List, and all other names contained in the list shall be designated the Common Jurors List.
8. The lists, when finally settled, shall be returned to the Registrar and shall be brought into use on the 1st day of March next following and shall continue in force for one year.
9. The Registrar shall cause the names of the common and special jurors to be written on separate cards of equal size and placed in separate boxes to be called the common jurors ballot box and the special jurors ballot box, which shall be kept locked.
10.—(1) Whenever it is necessary to summon a common jury, a Deputy Registrar shall, in the presence of the Registrar, open and draw from the ballot box eighteen names in civil cases and thirty names in criminal cases to form a panel; and whenever from any cause the jurors drawn cannot be served, a Deputy Registrar shall re-open the ballot box and in manner aforesaid draw fresh names therefrom as often as may be necessary to secure the full number of jurors required.
(2) The cards with the names of those who do not actually serve and are not dead or permanently incapacitated shall be returned to the ballot box, and the cards with the names of those who actually serve shall be locked up in a separate box until all the names in the ballot box are exhausted by subsequent panels, when they shall be returned to the ballot box, if required, for the purposes of the current year.
11. Whenever it is necessary to summon a special jury, such jury shall be drawn in the manner hereinbefore provided for obtaining a common jury, but the number to be drawn shall in all cases be seventeen.