2298 ARTICLE 10.

lating the drawing of juries by ballot, but simply to provide another way
of drawing them, leaving the judges in said Judicial Circuit free to use
either the ballot system or the marble or ball system as may be most cpm-
venient and satisfactory to the judge or judges drawing a jury.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 196. 1874, ch. 336. 1880. ch. 456. 1882. ch. 409.
1884, ch. 148. 1888, ch. 22. 1902, chs, 3 and 420. 1904. ch. 31.

344. There shall be the following number of justices of the peace and
constables for Dorchester County, to wit: for election district number one,
two justices of the peace and one constable; for election district number
two, three justices of the peace and two constables; for election district
number three, four justices of the peace and three constables; for election
district number four, three justices of the peace and three constables; for
election district number five, two justices of the peace and one constable;
for election district number six, three justices of the peace and one con-
stable; for election district number seven, four justices of the peace and
four constables; for election district number eight, two justices of the
peace and one constable; and for election district number nine, two jus-
tices of the peace and one constable; for election district number ten,
three justices of the peace and one constable; for election district number
eleven, two justices of the peace and one constable; for election district
number twelve, two justices of the peace and one constable; for election
district number thirteen, two justices of the peace and one constable, and
for election district number fourteen, two justices of the peace and two
constables.

See secs. 259-280.

1892, ch. 675.

345. The Governor of Maryland is hereby authorized to appoint a
justice of the peace for Williamsburg District, Dorchester County.

1S94. ch. 204.

346. The County Commissioners of Dorchester County are hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint an additional constable for Elec-
tion District Number Five (East New Market), Dorchester County; pro-
vided, that said constable shall reside in the Town, of East New Market.

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 10. sec. 197. 1878, ch. 104. 1888. ch. 272. 1906, ch. 158.

347. Every summons in a civil action and every writ of replevin issued
by a justice of the peace of said county shall be made returnable before
the justice who issues the same or some other justice of the same district,
or to some justice of the district where the defendant or one of the defend-
ants reside, and at or before the return day of the summons or writ of re-
plevin, or upon the arrest of the defendant and the return of the writ or
warrants the defendant may notify the justice before whom the return is
made that he elects to have the case removed before some other justice for
trial, and thereupon such justice shall transmit the papers in the case with