ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1851. 253
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, Penalty on
sheriff for
or officer, shall wilfully insert or omit, in the list of jurors , the name of any man which neglect of duty.
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 Jury list to be in
use for one year.
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 Manner of
forming panel.
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 For summoning
juries.
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 Panel.
time, cause to be delivered to the Registrar, or clerk (as the case may be) of the said