The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-04
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Acts Passed at the Late Session Of

OHf1CIA L.
Acts Passed at the Late Session of
the Leg islature.
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE MANNER OF
DRAWING JURIEs.
l. Be ii endoted 6y the Senate and
House of Representatives Of tie State
of South Carolina, mo,U met and sittinq
an General Assembly, and by tie au-
tho,.ity Of the same, All persons who
are qualified to vote in the choice of
Representatives in the General AS
sembly shall be liable to be drawn
and serve as jurors, except as herein
after provided.
u. The following persons shall be
exempt from. serving as Jurors, to
wit, the Governor, Lieutenant Go
vernon, Attorney General, Comp.
troller-G General, State Auditor, State
Treasurer, Secretary of State, mem
bers and officers of the Senate and
House of Representative during the
session of the General Assembly,
Judges and Justices of any Court,
Except Justices of the Peace Coun-
ty Commissioners, County Auditors
and Treasurers, Clerks of Courts,
Registers of Mesne Conveyances,
Sheriffs and their deputies, Coroners,
Constables, the MarshaIs of the
United States and their deputies, and
all other officers of the United States,
counsellors aud attorneys at law, or
dained ministers of the Gospel, Off
GERS of colleges, preceptors and teach
ers of incorporated academies, prac-
ticing physicians and surgeons regu-
larly licensed. cashiers and tellers of
incorporated banks, editors of daily
newspapers, constant ferrymen, such
officers and employees of railroads. as
are now exempt by law, and persons
who are more than sixty-fve years
old. 4T.t
III. No person shall be liable to
be drawn and serve as juror in any
Court oftener than once i'm every
Eyear, but he shall not be so EXEMPT
unless he actually attends and serves
rs juror in pursuance of the draft:
Provided, No person shall be exempt
from serving on a jury in any other
Court in, consequence of his having
served; before arJustice Of the Peace.
Nv. The Selectmen of each town
shall once in every year prepare list
of such Inhabitants of the town not
absolutely exempt, as they think we'll
qualified to serve as jurors, being
persons of good moral character, of
sound judgment, and free from all
legal exceptions; which list shall in
clude not less than one for every
twenty voters of the town, and not
more than one for every ten voters,
computing by the first registration
after the passage of this Act, and
thereafter in each year computing by
the last registration.
V. The list, when 30 prepared,
shall be posted up by the Selectmen
In two public places in the town or
city ten days at least before it is sub
mitted for revision and acceptance.
and shall then be laid before any re-
gularly called town meeting; and the
town meeting may alter it by adding
the names OF any person liable to
serve or striking any names there
from.
vi. Of the list adopted by the
town, the Selectmen shall cause the
names to be written each on q sepa-
rate paper or ballot, and shall roll mn
or fold the ballots so as to resemble
each other as much as possible and 40
that the name written thereon shall
not be visible on the outside, and
they shall place the ballots in q box
to be kept by the Town Clerk for that
purpose.
VII. If any person, whose name is
SO placed in the jnry box, is convict
ed OF any scandalous crime, cr is
guilty OF any gross immortality, his
name shall be. withdrawn therefrom
by the Selectmen, and he shall not
be returned as juror.
VIII. Tine County Clerks in each
County, at least fifteen days before
the commencement of any regular