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16. Jurors shall be entitled to such pay as is allowed by the
local laws of the several counties and the city of Baltimore, but
where no pay is fixed by local law, each juror shall receive
one dollar and fifty cents a day for each day he shall attend as
juror.

17. In all cases of forcible entry and detainer which jurors
shall be summoned to try, each juror shall be entitled to the
sum of one dollar for his services per day, to be taxed in the
costs by the justices, and any juror who being summoned shall
fail to attend on a case of forcible entry and detainer, shall be
liable to attachment and fine, in the discretion of the justices to
whom the summons is returned, not exceeding ten dollars.

18. The grand jury shall at each term of the court visit the
jail and inquire into its condition, the manner in which it is
kept and the treatment of the prisoners, and report the same to
the court.

ARTICLE LI.
Justices of the Peace.

SEC. 1. Every justice of the peace shall, within thirty days
after his commission shall have been received in the clerk's
office of the county or city, take and subscribe the oaths and
declaration prescribed by the Constitution; and upon his failure
to do so, his office shall be deemed vacant.

2. No person commissioned as a justice of the peace shall act
as such before he has taken the oaths and made the declaration
required by law; and every person violating this section shall,
for each offence, forfeit and pay the sum of forty dollars.

3. If any justice of the peace, having qualified as such, shall
accept of any office under the government of the United States,
and shall still act as justice of the peace, he shall forfeit and pay
for every such offence the sum of forty dollars.

4. For each new election district that may be formed and
established in the several counties, and for each additional ward
that may be created in the city of Baltimore, there shall be

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