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Acts. 77
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disqualified by Law to Serve as a Juror Shall have any Exemption
except Counsellors practicing, Attorneys Delegates Provincial Jus-
tices Clergymen and Practising Phisicians 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 every Grand and Petit Juror Shall have
an Allowance of Twenty four Pounds of Tobacco for every Days
Attendance to be Assessed in the County Levy as usual besides the
full fees for Verdicts in Civil Cases to the Petit Jurors And to
Prevent Partiality by Grand Jurors
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Liber H. S.
No. 1
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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 all 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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p. 604
[Manner of
chusing the
Grand-
jurors]
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Provided that in case any of the County Majistrates 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
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[Magistrates
not to be
Grand-
jurors]
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And to prevent partiality in Tryals by Jurors Be it Enacted that
the name of each and every Person Who Shall be Summoned and
Impannelled 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 Person's Whose names Shall
be so drawn Shall not appear or be Challenged and set aside then such
further Number until the twelve Person's Shall be drawn Who Shall
Appear and after all Causes of Challenge Shall be Allowed as fair
and indifferent and the said twelve Person's so drawn and Appear-
ing and Approved as in different their names being marked in the
pannel and they being Sworn Shall be the Jury to try the Same
cause and the names of the Person's so named and drawn and
Sworn Shall be kept in some other Glass or Box to be kept for
that purpose til Such Jury Shall have given in their Verdict and
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[Manner of
chusing the
Petit Jury]
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