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Jury list to be in use for one year.
Manner of forming panel.
For summoning Juries.
Panel.
Penalty for non-attendance.
Jury to be balloted for.
Governor and Council to mark off the names of not less than twenty-four.
[See Ord. No. 8 of 1872.]
ORDINANCE No. 11 of 1864.
Jury.
11. On or before the first day of February in each year, the 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. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882.]
12. When the jury list shall be completed and returned to the 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 sheriff shall attend at the Registrar's office and, in the presence of him or his deputy, ["a Deputy Registrar shall in the presence of the Registrar" as amended by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882] draw from the said box eighteen, and at criminal sessions, thirty of the said names to form a panel, and the cards so drawn shall thereupon be locked in a separate box therein to remain until the entirety of the names in the ballot box shall be exhausted by subsequent panels, when all the names of the jurors shall be returned to the ballot box, if required, for the purposes of the current year, and in such case the names shall again be redrawn in manner aforesaid. [Proviso added by Ordinance No. 7 of 1868.]
13. The sheriff ["The Registrar" as amended by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882] shall, before the sitting of any Court whereat a jury shall be necessary, issue summonses according to the form in the schedule (B) hereunto annexed, requiring the attendance thereat of the persons so drawn from the ballot box, and 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.
14. The sheriff shall also, at the same time, cause to be delivered to the Registrar, Deputy Registrar or clerk of the Court, a panel containing the names, places of abode, and additions, of the persons so summoned. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882 and new section substituted.]
15. If any juror having been duly served with such summons, shall fail to attend, or being present shall not appear when called, or after appearance shall withdraw himself without the permission of the Court, the Court shall, unless some reasonable excuse be proved on oath or affidavit or otherwise to the satisfaction of the Court, set upon the person so making default such fine, not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, as to the said Court shall seem meet.
16. At the sitting of the Court the names of all the jurors summoned shall be written on separate pieces of card of equal size and put into a box, and the Registrar, Deputy Registrar or clerk of the said Court shall, in open Court, draw therefrom until seven jurors appear, who, after all just causes of challenge allowed, shall remain as fair and indifferent, and the same shall be done whenever it shall be necessary to form a new jury.
17. When and so often as the list of jurors shall have been transmitted by the Registrar in manner aforesaid to the Governor and Legislative Council, he and they shall mark off, and designate with the term, "Special Juror," not less than twenty-four of the names contained in the list, and the names of such special jurors shall be...
668
Jury list to be in ase for one year.
Manner of form- ing panel.
For summoning Juries.
Panel.
Penalty for non-attendance.
Jury to be balloted for.
Governor and
Council to mark
off the names of not less than wenty-four.
[See Ord. No. 8 of
1872.]
ORDINANCE No. 11 of 1864.
Jury.
11. On or before the first day of February in each year, the 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. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 24, of 1882.]
12. When the jury list shall be completed and returned to the 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 sheriff shall attend at the Registrar's office and, in the presence of him or his deputy, ["a Deputy Registrar shall in the presence of the Registrar" as amended by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882] draw from the said box eighteen, and at criminal sessions, thirty of the said names to form a panel, and the cards so drawn shall thereupon be locked in a separate box therein to remain until the entire of the names in the ballot box shall be exhausted by subsequent panels, when all the names of the jurors shall be returned to the ballot box, if required, for the purposes of the current year, and in such case the names shall again be redrawn in manner aforesaid. [Proviso added by Ordinance No. 7 of 1868.]
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13. The sheriff ["The Registrar" as amended by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882] shall, before the sitting of any Court whereat a jury shall be necessary, issue summonses ac- cording to the form in the schedule (B,) hereunto annexed, requiring the attendance. thereat of the persons so drawn from the ballot box, and 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.
14. The sheriff shall also, at the same time, cause to be delivered to the Registrar, Deputy Registrar or clerk of the Court, a panel containing the names, places of abode, and additions, of the persons so summoned. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882 and new section substituted.]
15. If any juror having been duly served with such summons, shall fail to attend, or being present shall not appear when called, or after appearance shall withdraw himself without the permission of the Court, the Court shall, unless some reasonable excuse be proved on oath or affidavit or otherwise to the satisfaction of the Court, set upon the person so making default such fine, not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, as to the said Court shall seem meet.
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16. At the sitting of the Court the names of all the jurors summoned shall be written on separate pieces of card of equal size and put into a box, and the Eegistrar, Deputy Registrar or clerk of the said Court shall, in open Court, draw therefrom until seven jurorsappear, who, after all just causes of challenge allowed, shalf remain as fair and indifferent, and the same shall be done whenever it shall be necessary to form a new jury.
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17. When and so often as the list of jurors shall have been transmitted by the Registrar in manner aforesaid to the Governor and Legislative Council, he and they shall mark off, and designate with the term, "Special Juror," not less than twenty- four of the names contained in the list, and the names of such special jurors shall be
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