Appearing
and refusing
to give Evidence,
may
be committed.
 

Every Provincial
Grand
Jury, to be
allowed 3000
lb Tobacco,
in the Public
Levy.

Every County
Grand Jury,
to be allowed
500 lb
Tobacco, in
the County
Levy.
 
 

Allowance to
Juries.  See 
the Note below.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

No Person to
serve as a Petit
Juror in
any Court
where he hath
 issue depending
for
Trial the
same Court.
 

Allowance to
Witnesses, in
the Provincial
Court,
40 lb Tobacco
per Diem.

    VI.   And for the ascertaining the Expences of Jurors and Evidences;  Be it 
Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty's Justices of the 
Provincial Court of this Province, to allow unto the Grand Jurors that shall
serve in the Provincal Court, towards the defraying the Expences of the said
Jurors, for every Court they shall attend, any Quantity of Tobacco, no exceeding
Three Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, at the Discretion of such Justices,
to be paid our of the Public Levy of this Province.,

    VII.  And be it also Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices
of the several and respective County Courts of this Province, to allow
unto the Grand Jurors that shall serve in the several and respective County
Courts, any Sum of Tobacco, at the Discretion of the said Justices, not exceeding
Five Hundred Pounds for each Court they shall serve; to be paid out
of the several and respective County Levies.

    VIII.  And be it further Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the
Justices of the Provincial Court, to allow unto every Petit Juror summoned
to serve in the same Court, the Sum of * Thirty Pounds of Tobacco for every
Day such Juror shall attend in such Service, to be paid them in the Public
Levy, besides the Sum of  † One Hundred and Twenty Pounds of Tobacco,
to be allowed every full Jury that shall pass their Verdict in any Cause, to be
paid by the Party for whom such Verdict shall pass, and be allowed in the
Bill of Cost as usual:  And that the Clerk of the Provincial Court, for the
Time being, lay a List of all Persons that served as Petit Jurors in he Provincial
Court; with an Account of the Number of Days they attended, and
the Counties they were returned for, before the Committee for laying and apportioning
the public Levy yearly, under the Penalty of Six Thousand Pounds 
of Tobacco, to the King, his Heirs and Successors, for Support of Government;
to be recovered by Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin,
Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed; for which he shall be
allowed in the Public Levy, Two Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, and no more.
    * 48 lb Tobacco per Diem, in lieu of all Allowances by any former Act, 1760, ch. 16, §. 2.
    † 96 lb Tobacco for every full Jury.  Ibid.
   See 1719, ch. §. 2, for the Penalty on Persons giving more to a full Jury than 120 Pounds
        of Tobacco, or 12 Shillings in Money.

   IX. And to prevent Partiality in Jurors Be it Enacted, by the Authority,
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That no Sheriff shall summons any Person to
serve as a Petit Juror in any Court whatsoever, where he hath Knowledge
such Person hath any Matter of Fact depending for Trial at the same Court
he is summoned to serve in; and that no Person having such Matter of Fact
depending for Trial as aforesaid, shall be admitted as a Qualified Juror, between
Party and Party, during the Sitting of such Court that such Matter of
Fact shall be, or expected to be tried in.

    X.  And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Provincial Court
to allow unto every Person or Persons, that shall be legally summoned  to give
their Evidence in the said Courts, the Sum of Forty Pounds of Tobacco, and
no more, for every Day they attend at such Court, together with their itinerant
Charges, as usual, to be allowed by the Court, and paid by the person
summoning them, and to be charged in the Bill of Cost, in Cases of Meum