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Shillings per Hundred; and that no Person that is not incapable or
disqualified by Law to serve as a Juror, shall have any Exemption,
except Counsellors, Delegates, Provinicial Justices, Clergymen, and
practising Physicians or Surgeons; nor shall Grand Jurors be exempt
from serving as Petit Jurors in Civil Cases, at the same Assizes of
Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery, they are returned to serve in ;
and that every Grand Jury shall have an Allowance of Five Hundred
Pounds of Tobacco for every Assize, and every Petit Juror Twenty
Pounds of Tobacco, for every Day's Attendance, to be assessed in
the County Levy as usual, besides the full Fees for Verdicts in Civil
Cases.
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No. I
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And to prevent Partiality by Grand Jurors, Be it Enacted, That the
Name of every Person summoned as a Juror, shall be written in
several distinct Pieces of Paper, being as near as may be of equal
Size and Bigness, and shall be delivered to the Clerk of Assize, or
such other Person as the said Justices shall appoint; and by the Care
of the Clerk, or such Person as shall be appointed as aforesaid, all
rolled up as near as may be in the same Manner, and put into a
Glass or Box to be provided for that Purpose, and that the said
Justices, in open Court, shall direct to be drawn by some indifferent
Person out of the said Glass or Box, a sufficient Number for a
Grand Jury, and that such Persons as shall be drawn, and then
appear, shall be Grand Jurymen, and none others.
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[Manner of
Chusing the
Grand
Jurors.]
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Provided, That in Case any of the County Magistrates, or their
Clerk, should be drawn, they shall not be of the Grand Jury, but
that others shall be drawn in the Place of any Magistrate, or County
Clerk, that should happen to be drawn.
And to prevent Partiality in Tryals by Jurors, Be it Enacted, That
the Name of each and every Person, who shall be summoned and
impanelled as a Petit Juror, shall be written in several distinct
Pieces of Paper, being as near as may be of equal Size and Bigness,
and shall be delivered to the Clerk of Assize, or such other Person as
the said Justices shall appoint, and by the Care of the Clerk, or such
Person as shall be appointed as aforesaid, be all rolled up as near
as may be in the same Manner, and put into a Glass, or Box, to be
provided for that Purpose; and when any Cause shall be brought on
to be tried, some indifferent Person, by Direction of the Court, may
and shall, in open Court, draw out Twelve of the said Papers one
after another, and if any of the Persons whose Names shall be so
drawn, shall not appear, or be challenged and set aside, then such
further Number, until the Twelve Persons shall be drawn, who shall
appear, and after all Causes of Challenge shall be allowed, as fair and
indifferent, and the said Twelve Persons so drawn, and appearing,
and approved as indifferent, their Names being marked in the Pan-
nel, and they being sworn, shall be the Jury to try the same Cause ;
and the Names of the Persons so named, and drawn, and sworn, shall
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[Magis-
trates not to
be of the
Grand
Jury.]
[Manner of
chusing the
Petit
Jury.]
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