2058 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.

conrt under the direction of said judges; and the said box shall
have as many compartments or drawers as there are election dis-
tricts 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 compart-
ments or drawers of said box, which shall respectively bear the
nnmbers of the districts where the persons so selected shall re-
spectively 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 of 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 compart-
ment of said box, without looking into the same, beginning with
the compartment containing the names from the first election,
district and so on in succession, 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 county, commanding him to sum-
mon as jurors to attend at the next ensuing jury term of said
court the several persons whose names shall be drawn as afore-
said; 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 persons so last aforesaid drawn, inserted in the
said venire facias, to be summoned as aforesaid; and it shall be
the duty of the said sheriff to summon the persons named and to
make return thereof to said court at the opening of its session.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

1868, ch. 12. 1868, ch. 257. 1870, ch. 63. 1880, ch. 428.

54. There shall be the following number of justices of the
peace and constables in the several election districts in Wicomico