Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-28
VOL. II. NO. l53

box for period of two years. If any person
whose name is so drawn shall have died or
removed from the district, or has become
otherwise disabled from serving as juror, the
said register and clerks shall draw from the
box another name, who shall serve instead !;
and after the requisite number of jurors shall
have been so drawn, the said box shall again
be sealed and delivered to the clerk of the
circuit court as aforesaid.
Sect. g. And be it further enacted, that it
shall be the duty of the marshal of the Dis
trict of Columbia, at least five days before the
meeting of the court for which jury is re-
quired, to notify each person drawn, by serv-
ing on him notice in writing of his selection
as a juror of the court he is to attend and of
the day and hour he is to appear; which no
ticc shall be given to each juror in person, or
be left at his usual place of residence; copy
OF which notice, with his certificate stating
when and in what manner the original was
served, shall be returned by the said marshal
to the court before the commencement of the
term for which the said jurors were drawn.
Sect. Z. And be it further enacted, that in
case Of either of the officers whose duty it is
to make out the lists aforesaid shall neglect or
refuse to act, or in case either of them shall
be interested in any action or proceeding
pending in the said circuit or criminal court,
the chief judge of the circuit court shall APP
point fit and proper person to discharge the
duty instead; and if the persons selected as
jurors do not attend, the court may order the
marshal to summon other respectable tax
payers, possessing the other legal qualifca-
tons, to supply the deficiency. And if at any
time there should not be, by reason of chal-
lenge or otherwise, a sufficient number of iu-
rors to make up the panel, the court shall or
der the marshal to summon as many talesmen
as are necessary for that purpose.
Sect. s. And be it further enacted, that no
person shall be competent to act as a juror,
unless he be citizen of the United States a
resident of the District of Columbia, over
twenty-one and under sixty-ive years of age,
a good and lawful man, who has never been
convicted of felony or misdemeanor involv-
ing moral turpitude. And a person may be
excused by the court from serving on a jury,
when for any reason his interests or those of
the public will be materially injured by his
attendance, or when he is party in any ac-
ton or proceeding to be tried or determined
by the intervention of jury at the term for
which he may be summoned, or where his
own health or the death or sickness of mem
Der of his family requires his absence.
Sect. 8. And be it further enacted, that if
any officer named in the first section of this
act shall put on the list be is required to make
the name of any person at his own request,
or on the request of any other person, or
shall be guilty Of any fraud or collision with
respect to the drawing Of jurors, he shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by fine of not less than one hum
bred dollars, and imprisoned in the county
Jail not less than sixty days, for each and
every offence. And if the clerk of the cir
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number of names than is required by the
court, in accordance with the provisions of
this act, or shall put in said box any name
after the same has been delivered to him as
aforesaid, or shall be guilty of any fraud or
collision in respect to the drawing of jurors,
he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be punished by a fine Of not less
than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned
in the county Jail not less than sixty days, for
each and every offence.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, that if
any person selected as juror and duly no.
tilted to attend according to the requirements
of this act, SHALL without sufficient cause, ne
glect to attend agreeably to such notice, he
shall be fined by the court in a sum not ex-
ceeding twenty dollars for every day he shall
be absent during the sitting of said court.
Sect. IL. And be it further enacted, that
tne names on tle 1StS speclned IN the second
section of this act shall be selected, as near as
may be, from among the citizens of the sever
al wards of the cities of Washington and
Georgetown, and the three divisions of the
county of Washington outside the limits of
said cities formed by the eastern branch of
the Potomac river and Rock creek, in proper
ton to the number of taxable inhabitants re-
siding in said wards and districts, respectively
Approved Jude Is, 1862.