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LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 479
City as jurors; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court
to which the jurors shall be summoned, to furnish on the day
their services shall terminate, to each juror, a certificate, show-
ing the days he has been in attendance on the court, and the
amount payable to him for such service; and the City Regis-
ter shall pay the jurors the sums payable for such service
in cash, and immediately upon the presentation and surrender
of such certificate, with the receipt of the juror, and said pay-
ment shall not be demanded save upon the surrender of said
certificates, and the said certificates shall not be the subject of
assignment.
Volunteer Militia Exempt from Jury Duty.
622. All certificates of membership of any legally organ-
ized volunteer company of the militia shall be signed by the
commanding officer thereof, which certificates shall be issued
on or before the first day of April in each year to such persons
as may then compose the uniformed and active members of
said company; every such company may receive and have as
many honorary members as it has active and uniformed mem-
bers, and no more, on payment, in advance, by each person de-
siring to become such honorary member, of not less than ten
dollars per annum; wh'ich said money shall be received by the
commanding officer of the company, and be by him applied to
the payment of armory rent or the purchase of uniforms for the
rank and file of the active members of his company, or to such
purposes as may be authorized by the by-laws of said company;
and the commanding officer of every company shall, on or be-
fore the first day of June and December of every year; render
to the Adjutant General an account of the money so received
and expended by him, and every such honorary member shall
be entitled to receive a certificate of honorary membership of
the company, to be signed as aforesaid, and bearing date at the
time of its issue; which certificates of membership, whether of
uniformed and active members or of honorary members,
shall exempt the person therein named from jury duty for the
period of one year from the date of his said certificate; pro-
vided, he files his said certificate with the clerk of the court be-
fore the drawing of the jury.
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