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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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ART. 14;] KENT COTTNTT. 669

the attendance of jurors for the next two succeeding terms of
said court.

113. A certificate signed by the clerk of said court, expressing
the number of days which any juror may have attended, and the
sum due for such attendance, shall be sufficient authority for the
collectors of said county to pay the amount therein specified.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

114. There shall be the following number of justices of the
peace and constables for Kent county, to wit: for election district
number one, two justices of the peace and two constables; for
election district number two, three justices of the peace and three
constables; for election district number three, three justices of
the peace and three constables.

115. All constables in said county shall be entitled to receive,
in addition to the fifty cents they are by law allowed, the sum of
eight cents per mile for every mile they may have to travel to
and from the jail in Chestertown, in delivering to the jailer of
said county any person charged with a breach of the peace or
any criminal offence, the distance to be computed from the place
where the commitment shall be issued, and from the jail to the
residence of the constable; but no constable shall receive more
than four dollars for any one delivery; the same shall be paid in
such cases only as the county commissioners, in their discretion,
shall allow as a reasonable compensation for the extra trouble
and risk he may incur.

116. In all cases where a writ of venditioni exponaa shall be
returned by any constable to any justice of the peace for Kent
county, and the property, or any part thereof mentioned in said
writ shall remain unsold, and the debt not fully satisfied, it shall
be the duty of the-justice to enter the date of such return on his
docket, and thereupon deliver the said writ to the constable, who
shall take such proceedings in all respects under the said writ so
delivered to him, for the period of one year from the date of such
return, as could be had in virtue of renewal from time to time of
such writ; and within the period of one year from the return as
aforesaid of any writ of venditioni exponas, it shall not be lawful
for any justice of the peace to issue any second writ of venditioiv
exponas, or any renewals thereof; and under the original writ
thus re-delivered to the constable, he shall remain under the same

 

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