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option of summoning grand jurors; and it shall be in the
power of the court in its sound discretion not to summon
any grand jurors if none are needed in the August term.
The trial term of said court for the cases depending
therein upon issues of facts, to be tried by a jury,
shall be the term to which jurors shall be summoned next
succeeding the terms to which original process may be
returnable to the term next succeeding the date of the
issue thereof, and the drawing of jurors for the jury
terms aforesaid shall be in all respects as now
prescribed by law, except that for the February tern and
August term aforesaid, and not less than fifteen days
before the same, there shall be drawn from the names
remaining in the box from which the jury for the
preceding November term and for the preceding Hay term,
respectively, is drawn twenty—five names, which shall
constitute the petit jurors for said February term or
August term, as the case may be, subject to the same
provisions and regulations applicable to the correction
and completion of the jurors drawn from other jury terms
aforesaid.]

9.

[The judges of the Circuit Court may, in their
discretion, appoint intermediate terms for the
transaction of equity or other business, not requiring a
jury, to which process may also be returnable.]

10.

[In addition to the first day of each term of the
Circuit Court for said county the first Monday of
January, April, July and October in each year shall be
return days for the return of process in civil cases. ]

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 538
(House Bill 1340)
AN ACT concerning

Funeral Directors and Embalmers

FOR the purpose of establishing certain requirements for
an applicant of a funeral director and embalmer's