2296 ARTICLE 10.

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 10. sec. 193. 1860, Art. 10, sec. 121.

340. The sums so levied shall he collected by the collectors of Dor-
chester County, as other county charges.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 194. 1860. Art. 10, sec. 123.

341. A certificate signed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, expressing
the number of days any juror may have attended said court, and the sum
due to him for such attendance, shall be: sufficient authority to the treas-
urer to pay the amount specified in the certificate.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 195. 1888, ch. 432.

342. When the list of names selected as directed in Sections 6 and 7
of Article 51 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Juries", is made
and certified as therein provided for, immediately thereupon the judges
of the circuit court, in the presence of the members of the bar and such
other persons as may attend, shall cause all the names selected and placed
on said list to be legibly written on ballots of equal size and of the same

color and appearance, which shall be closely folded and placed by said
judges with their own hands, immediately before the drawing herein pro-
vided for, into a cubiform box of the square of twenty-four inches, to be
procured for that purpose by the clerks of said court under the direction
of said judges; and the said box shall have as many compartments or
drawers as there are election districts of the county, and which shall be
numbered to correspond with said election districts; and the names of the
persons selected as aforesaid shall be placed by the judges in the said com-
partments or drawers of said box which shall respectively bear the num-
bers of the districts where the persons so .selected shall respectively reside;
and after so depositing the said ballots the said box shall be closed, and
the judges shall cause the clerk or one of his deputies, whom the judges
shall designate, and who shall not be present at the writing, folding and

depositing said ballots into the box as herein directed, to appear before
them and then and there, in the presence of said judges and such other
persons as may choose to be present, to draw from each compartment of
said box, without looking into the same, beginning with the compartment
containing the names from the first election district, and so on in succes-
sion, the number of names apportioned by the said judges to each district
until forty-eight ballots shall be drawn; and the names appearing on said
ballots as drawn shall be recorded by the clerk in the presence of said
judges in the order drawn, and thereupon the judges shall order a venire
facias directed to the sheriff of said cour.ty commanding him to summon
as jurors to attend at the next ensuing jury term of said court the several
persons whose names shall be drawn as aforesaid; and if any such persons
are dead or sick, or otherwise unable to attend, or returned non est by the
sheriff, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to immediately return the fact
to said judges, who shall thereupon cause to be drawn from said box, in
the manner directed, other names in the place or stead of the original who
may be dead, disabled or absent, and shall have the name of such person