Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-04-24
THE NEW JURY LAW.

The following is said to be an exact copy
Of the law lately passed in reference to draw
ing jurors within the State:
SECTION |. BE ii enacted Jy the Senate
and House Of Representatives. Of the Conn
n,onweolM Of Pennsylvania ta GeacrM .As-
sembH met, md is Mcrely eaactea By Mc
anthoriW of the same, that on the general
election 70 he hell on the second Tuesday
Of October, Anno Domini one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-sevcn, AMI tri-cn-
Na.Or 'i}rcpiter, at such election, the quail
lie! ei.ors of the several counties of this
Commonwealth shall elect, in the manner
now provided by law for the election of
other county officers, two sober, intelligent
and judicious persons to serve as jury COM
missioners, in each of said counties, for the
period of three years ensuing their election
but the same person or persons shall not be
eligible for recollection more than once in
any period Of six years: Hroriied, That
each of said qualified electors shall vote for
one person only as jury commissioner, and
the two persons having the greatest num-
Der of votes for jury commissioner shall be
duly elected jury commissioners for each
county.
SIC. 2. 1t shall be the duty Of said jury
commissioners to meet at the seat of justice
of the respective counties, at least thirty
days before the first term OF the court Of
common pleas, in every year, and thcrcupon
proceed, with due diligence, to select from
the whole male taxible citizens Of the re-
spcctivc county at large, number, such as
the term of court of pleas next proceeding
shall, by the said court, be designated, Of
sober, intelligent anl judicious persons, to
serve as jurors in the several courts of such
county, during that year; and if the said
commissioners cannot agree upon the names
of the persons to be elected by them as ju-
rors, they shall proceed as follows: Each
of the commissioners shall make list con-
tanning the names of half of the requi-
site number of persons, and ten per centum
in addition thereto and the proper number
shall be obtained by each of said commits
sioncrs striking from the list furnished by
the other, a number equal to the said addi-
ton; and the names not stricken out shall
be the selection of the nemes Of jurors, and
and the said jury commissioners shall, in
the mode and manner now directed by law,
place the names of persons so selected, in
the proper jury wheel locked, as now re-
quired by law, shall remain in the costody
Of the sail jury commissioners an! the keys
til nan.' IN the custody Of said county.
So. 8. The said Jury commissioners and
the sheriff Of the respective county, or any
two of them, shall draw from the proper
jury wheel panels of jurors, and grand jurors
of the proper county, and as petit and ira
verse Jurors, for the trial of issues in fact
which may be taken in any action in any OF
the courts, civil and criminal, in the several
counties aforesaid, in the manner now prac-
ticcd and allowed but before the said jury
commissioners aud sheriff shall proceed to
select or draw jurors in the manner aforesaid,
they shall scverally take the oath Or uflirma,
ton now prescribed by law to be taken by
the sheriff and county commissioners before
selecting and drawing jurors.
SEC. 4. That so much of any act or act'
of Assembly of this Commonwealth, a;
makes it the duty of the sheriff and county
commissioners Of any Of said counties to sc,
lect and draw Jurors, shal! be repealed and
cease to have any force or effect from and
after the first day of December next Ammo
naa',M .aa .hougani eight hundred .and
sixty aoye1 t'ori'el, That all acts and
i-ar NJ u'- - Assembly. now in force, ii
'.r.... he custody, scaling and unsea!
.a., soc ng and opening of the jury whec
Of the respective county, and all acts, anc
parts cf acts of Assembly, now in force i'm
posing any penalty or punishment upon tn,
sheriff or county commissioners, or either @
them, for anything done or omitted by then
in relation to the keeping, locking, opening
sealing or breaking the seal of any jur,
wheel, or in relation to the selection or draw
ing of Jurors, shall be taken, deemed an,
held to apply to the said jury commission
ers and sheriff.
SIC. 5. Each of said jury commissioner
! shall be allowed and paid out of the respect
i've county treasury two dollars and fft.
cents per day, and four cents per mile, cir
cular, from the residence Of the commission
crs nthe court house.
SEC. 6. 1t shall bc the duty Of each o
7 said jury commissioners to take upon him
self and discharge the duties of his salt
office, under u penalty Of one hundred dol
lars for each and every neglect or refusal t
) attend the same, to be used for and recover
ed before any justice of the peace of tn
proper county, as debts of like amount ar
now by law recoverable, ten dollars Of whcl
shall 60 to the person suing and the residu
to be paid by the said justice to the treasure
I of the respective county for the use Of tn
same.
Sec I. In case Of the inability of eithe
or both Of the said Jury commissioners, b
S sickness or death or other unavoidabl
4 causes, to discharge the duties Of said osic