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duty of said sheriff forthwith to return the fact of such death, disability or
absence to the judge or judges, who shall thereupon cause to be drawn from
the compartment or drawer from which the name of the person so dead,
sick, returned non est or excused by the judge or judges was drawn, an-
other name to take the place of such person so dead, sick, returned non est
or excused, and shall cause the name or names last as aforesaid drawn to be
inserted in said venire facias to be summoned as aforesaid; provided, that
should the person selected as foreman of the grand jury die, be returned
non est or be excused on account of sickness or for any other cause, the
judge or judges may select or appoint another person from the names re-
maining on the original list provided for in this section, and that the court,
at the beginning of the term for which the said persons were drawn and
summoned, shall direct the clerk of said court, or one of his deputies, to
legibly write upon ballots the names of the forty-seven jurors, and after
carefully folding said ballots separately, to place them in a box, with a
sliding top, and said clerk shall draw said ballots therefrom, one at a
time, without looking into said box, and the first twenty-two names drawn,
with the foreman previously appointed, shall constitute the grand jury,
and the remaining twenty-five names shall constitute the petit jury for said
term of said court, and the name of no person disqualified if drawn shall
invalidate the selection or drawing, but such error when discovered may
be corrected by drawing from the appropriate box another person in place
of the person so improperly selected or drawn, and if the foreman so
selected after having been sworn should die, or for any cause be excused
by the court, the judge or judges after drawing another name to be placed
upon the panel of grand jurors, as provided in this section, may select and
appoint any one of the twenty-three persons constituting the grand jury
as foreman in place of the foreman so dead or excused.
See sec. 267.

1927, ch. 286.

342. All jurors serving as such in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County, shall be paid a per diem of three dollars and fifty cents per day
for each day they shall actually attend as jurors in said court, and, in
addition to this per diem, all jurors in Anne Arundel County, not resid-
ing in Annapolis City or the First and Third Precincts of the Second
Election District of Anne Arundel County, shall be allowed one dollar
and fifty cents per day for their traveling expenses, for each day they
shall actually attend as jurors in said Circuit Court.

The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County shall annually
levy a sum sufficient to pay the jurors of Anne Arundel County as herein
provided.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 171. 1892, ch. 334. 1914 Code, sec. 252.

343. There shall be for Anne Arundel County thirty-two justices of the

*See Potee v. Co. Commissioners, 138 Md. 381, for decision relating to secs. 270
and 271 of Melvin's Edition of Co. Code, 1914, as these sections have since been
repealed by ch. 131, 1920.