ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 733
before the beginning of the second regular term of
said courts after each and every genera] election
held thereafter, a fair and complete list of the white
male taxable inhabitants or residents of said county,
whose names appear on the tax books of said
county, and who are not known to said clerk to he
under the age of twenty-five years, and to which
said lists so to be made and filed the said clerks
respectively shall append a certificate, that said
list is fully and fairly made; and for making such
list the said clerk shall receive such compensation
as the County Commissioners shall deem right and
proper; and for failure to perform the duty hereby
imposed, the said clerk to said commissioners shall
|
White males.
|
forfeit and pay a fine to the State of not less than
five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand
dollars, in the discretion of the court, to be recov-
ered by indictment as for a misdemeanor, and he
shall be thenceforth wholly incapable of holding
or exercising the duties of the said clerk to the
County Commissioners.
|
Forfeit.
|
6. And be it enacted, That the name of no per-
son disqualified or exempted by existing law from
serving as a juror, or who by existing law the
sheriff is forbidden to summon as such, shall be
selected and placed upon the panel or list, from
which the drawing is to be made as directed by
this Act; nor shall any person be drawn and sum-
moned to two courts successively, but the selection
or drawing of any person disqualified as a juror
|
Jurors — dis-
qualified.
|
under this Act, shall not invalidate the drawing or
selection, but such error may be corrected by draw-
ing another person from the box in place of the
person improperly selected or drawn; and the said
court shall have full power and authority to coerce
the attendance of jurors drawn and summoned
under this Act, and to punish by fine or imprison-
ment, or both, for any default or contempt com-
mitted in disregarding such summons.
|
Invalidate
drawing.
|
Sec. -. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 4, 1870.
|
In force.
|
|
|