Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-12-30

y, 1884. NO. 622.
} dent of the United States, by and with
the advice sud consent of the Senate, a
coroner for the city of Washington, for
the city of Georgetown, and for the coun-
ty of Washington, respectively; each Of
whom shall be appointed from, and be q
resident of, the place for which he may be
appointed during the term of Office, which
shall be for the term Of five years; and
they shall have the powers, perform the
duties, and te entitled to the fees OF of.
fice IS now existing, or hereinafter pro-
vlded for; and they shall each have pow.
er to hold post mortem inquisitions in
any place in said District Of Columbia: /:
aad the office of coroner, as now exist
ing, is hereby abolished. And hereafter
it shall be the duty of the said coroners
OF Washington city, Of Georgetown, and
OF the county of Washington, in the
month of January next ensuing, and in
the same month every year thereafter, to
furnish to the marshal of said District a
list, which he shall duly publish, of the
names of a sufficient number of the in
telligent and respectable citizens of said
District, who may be over twenty-five
and under fifty years of age, to serve
as petit jurors of said District: and the
said lists shall be formed for each of said
cities and said county, respectively, ac-
cordlng to the ratio of their population
as nearly as may be practicable; and the
number of said jurors and the propor.
tions thereof for each of said cities and
id county shall be previously, in due
season. ascertained, and certified by said
Judges to the said coroners, respectively.
And it shall be the duty of said marshal
10 place said names on ballots, and cause
the same in due season to be fairly drawn
from . wheel or box in the presence of
one of said judges, who shall superintend
the said drawing, and order that the per-
sons whose names have been first drawn,
to the number required for the next term
OF said courts, respectively, shall be sum.
moned as jurors III each of said courts for
the trial of causes therein; and none 9TH
ers shall be summoned or serve as Jurors,
unless by special order of the Judges of
said courts, respectively. And whenev-
er special jury may be ordered on an
afhdavlt OF bias or prejudice, as afore-
said, the same shall be drawn, as afore-
said, from said lists until a sufficient
number, qualified by residence, may be
obtained who shall then be summoned
to attend as such Jurors And So, in like
manner, shall every jury be hereafter Sc
lected for said courts; and no person who
has served his term as a juror in either of
said courts shall be again required to
serve as such until all the other persons
named on said lists shall also have served
their terms, or been excused therefrom
for sufficient reasons by either of said
courts; and said annual lists of Jurors
shall be composed, as far as may be
practicable, of the names of persons who
have not been included in any previous
lists, or who have not actually served in
turn as jurors in one of said courts, so
that the duties of juror may be dis.
! tributed equally among the citizens of
said District of Columbia: PROVIDED,
ho,yeuer, That talesmen may be sum-
moned by said marshal, under the order
of said courts, without resorting to the
ballot or lists aforesaid; and the said
talesmen having served as Jurors, shall
. not by reason thereof be exempted from
, again serving as jurors when drawn as
such in turn, as jurors, by ballot as
| aforesaid; but they shall not be again
competent to serve as such talesmen du-
ring the same term of the court at which
, they have so acted as jurors. And the
said courts shall, every two weeks during
the terms thereof, cause fresh panel of
jurors to be selected by ballct and sum-
/ moned as aforesaid, and the old panel to
be discharged, unless they, or some of
| them, shall then be sworn upon the trial
of a case, and ali who are not so sworn
shall be discharged.
SEC. IL. And Je 1t further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of said Judges, as
soon as may be convenient after their ap-
polntment to office, to meet together, to
revise and improve the rules of practice
aud proceedings in all of said courts, and
to establish such new rules as NAV be ne
cessary, and also to revise and reduce the
tariff of fees and costs of litigation, and
other fees, costs, and charges, in the of.
| fees of the clerks of said courts as now
allowed and existing, and to establish
new tariff thereof for the clerks, marshal,
and coroners of said District, and when
SO established to make publication there.
of, aud to cause printed copy of such
rules and tariff to be always kept and ex-
hibited in some conspicuous place in each
of the offices of the clerks of said courts
and of said marshal.
SEC. l9. And be 1t further eneated, That
each of the judges herein provided shall
be paid out of the treasury an annual SAL
sry, payable quarterly Of three thousand
dollars, and shall hold their offices, du-
ring good behavior, for the term of ten
years, and may be re-appointed: Pro.
uided, howeper, That no person above the
age Of sixty years shall be appointed