1600 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17
1870, ch. 331.
179. Of the seventy-three jurors drawn and summoned, the
twenty-three names first occurring in the order in which they
were drawn, shall constitute and be the grand jury for the ensuing
term of said court, and the remaining fifty names next in order
in the drawing shall constitute and be the petit jury of the said
ensuing term of the said court; and the judge of the said court
shall divide the petit jurors into two panels, one of which shall
serve during the first week of the said court, and the other during
the second week; and the said court may make such order for the
alternate attendance of the said panels during the sessions of the
court, as the said court may deem necessary; the persons who
shall, in said lists, be allotted to serve during the second week of
the court, shall be exempt from attending said court during the
first week of its session, unless specially required by the court to
be in attendance; and the clerk shall publish a copy of the said
lists of jurors in the newspapers published within the said county,
for two successive weeks, the same to be inserted in each of them
for the first time in the issue thereof next after said drawing and,
appointment.
P. L. L. (1860,) art. 16, sec. 67.
180. The county commissioners shall annually levy a sum of
money, not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, for the pay of the
jurors attending the circuit court for said county, and deposit the
same in the Farmers' bank of Maryland, at Annapolis, or in some
bank in the District of Columbia, to the credit of said commis--
sioners ; or they may, in their discretion, direct the county treas-
urer to pay the jurors of said county out of the money so levied,
such sum as may be due to them, respectively.
Ibid. sec. 68.
181. A certificate signed by the clerk of the said circuit court
and expressing the number of days any juror may have attended,
and the sum due him therefor, shall be sufficient authority to the
cashier of the bank in which the said money may be deposited,
or the county treasurer, as the case may be, to pay the amount,
therein specified.
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