ART. 51] RECALLING GRAND AND PETIT JURIES. 1369
State as jurors and fifteen cents for each mile over five miles
for going to and returning from the court once in each term
to be paid by the counties, respectively, in which courts are
held. This section shall not apply to the city of Baltimore,
nor to Calvert, Charles nor Garrett, nor any other counties for
which special local laws exists.
1888, art. 51, sec. 21. 1860, art. 50, sec. 17. 1632, ch. 121, sec. 1.
21. In all cases of forcible entry and detainer which jurors
shall be summoned to try, each juror shall be entitled to the
sum of one dollar for his services per day, to be taxed in the
costs by the justices; and any juror who being summoned
shall fail to attend on a case of forcible entry and detainer
shall be liable to attachment and fine, in the discretion of the
justices to whom the summons is returned, not exceeding ten
dollars.
Ibid. sec. 22. 1860, art. 50, sec. 18. 1837, ch. 320, sec. 13. 1838, ch.. 75.
22. The grand jury shall at each term of the court visit the
jail and inquire into its condition, the manner in which it is
kept and the treatment of the prisoners, and report the same
to the court.
Cocking v. Wade, 87 Md. 540.
1900, ch. 62, sec. 23.
23. Whenever the jurors for any term of any court in this
State have been drawn as hereinbefore provided by this article
and the business of said term has so far proceeded as that
either the grand jury or the petit jury or both the grand jury
and the petit jury shall have been finally discharged and, by
reason of any event or events happening before or after said
final discharge, any criminal charge shall arise which the said
court shall deem of sufficient importance to be investigated
forthwith by the grand jury and to be tried by a petit jury, the
said court may, in its discretion, require the grand jury for
said term and the petit jury for said term, or either said grand
jurors or said petit jurors to be summoned to return to said
court at such time as the court may direct; and in case any
one of said jurors shall be unable to attend for reasons which
said court may deem satisfactory, the court shall proceed to
fill the vacancy thus created as though said juror had not been
finally discharged, and thereupon said court may proceed to
investigate and try said criminal charge as fully and completely
as though said grand or petit jurors, or either of them, had
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