ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1851.
Jurors.
Governor and Council may appear fit: and which said list, when so approved of or altered, shall be returned to the said Registrar by the said Clerk of the Councils, and called the "Jurors' List," and shall be in force until the first day of March, 1852.
4. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any sheriff, or other minister, or officer, shall wilfully insert or omit, in the list of jurors, the name of any man which ought not to be so inserted or omitted, according to the list of jurors so to be made out as aforesaid, or shall fail to sign and transmit a correct copy of such list to the said Registrar as hereinbefore directed, or shall otherwise fail well and truly to do and perform all and every the acts, matters, and things, hereby required to be by him performed, such sheriff, or other minister, or officer, shall be fined at the discretion of the said Court.
5. And be it further enacted and ordained, that on or before the first day of January which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and on or before the first day of January [“February” as amended by Ordinance No. 7 of 1857: See also No. 15 of 1856] in each and every subsequent year, the said sheriff shall make out and transmit a fresh jury list, in manner and form as hereinbefore directed; and such fresh jury list, when so transmitted, and approved of or altered as aforesaid, shall be brought into use the first day of March then next following, and shall continue to be used for one year then next ensuing.
6. And be it further enacted and ordained, that when the said jury list shall be completed and returned to the said Registrar, he shall cause the names therein to be written on separate cards and placed in a ballot box to be kept for that purpose; and whenever it shall be requisite to summon a jury, the said sheriff shall attend at the Registrar's office, and in the presence of him or his deputy, draw from the said box eighteen ["ten" as amended by Ordinance No. 4 of 1854] of the said names to form a panel, and the cards so drawn shall thereupon be locked up in a separate box, therein to remain until the entire of the names in the said ballot box shall be exhausted by subsequent panels, when all the names of the said jurors shall be returned to the said ballot box, if required, for the purposes of the current year, and in such case the said names shall again be re-drawn in manner aforesaid. [Revived by Ordinance No. 7 of 1857: See also Ordinance No. 15 of 1856.]
7. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the sheriff shall also, before the sitting of any Court whereat a jury shall be necessary, issue summonses according to the form in the schedule hereunto annexed, requiring the attendance thereat of the said eighteen persons ["ten" as amended by Ordinance No. 4 of 1854, Thirty persons in criminal cases as amended by Ordinance No. 4 of 1862] so drawn from the ballot box, and that every such summons shall be personally served upon, or left at the usual place of abode of the person so summoned two clear days before the day appointed for the sitting of the Court. [Revived by Ordinance No. 7 of 1857: See also Ordinance No. 15 of 1856.]
8. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the sheriff shall also, at the same time, cause to be delivered to the Registrar, or clerk (as the case may be) of the said
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Penalty on sheriff for neglect of duty.
Jury list to be in use for one year.
Manner of forming panel.
For summoning juries.
Panel,