On the return day of the summons or on some subsequent day to which the proceedings shall have been adjourned, if no sufficient cause to the contrary has been shown, the court shall make an order that a jury be empaneled in the cause. Such jury shall be composed of 12 freeholders of the county and not directly interested in said proceedings and shall be selected and empaneled as follows: The sheriff, under-sheriff or deputy sheriff of the county shall, on the same day or at an adjourned day, make a list of 24 resident freeholders of such county, and the city attorney, corporation counsel or other law officer of the city, in person or by an assistant or deputy, and the respondents collectively, shall each have the right to strike 6 names from the list of persons written down as aforesaid, and, subject to objection for cause, the 12 persons whose names are left on the list shall compose the jury for the trial of the cause, and shall be summoned to attend at such time as the court shall direct, by a venire issued by the clerk of the court, and to be served by 1 of the officers aforesaid. If the respondents neglect or refuse to strike 6 names from said list, it shall be done by the judge of the court, and in case any of the persons to be summoned cannot be found in the county, or being summoned do not attend, or shall be excused for cause or otherwise, talesmen possessing the necessary qualifications may be summoned as jurors in the case by such sheriff or sheriff’s officer, or other authorized person, and the practice and proceedings under this act, except as herein provided, relative to empaneling, summoning and excusing jurors and talesmen, and imposing penalties or fines upon them for non-attendance, shall be the same as the practice and proceedings of the circuit courts of the state relative to petit jurors in civil cases in such courts.