The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-04

jury, ana In the County OF Charles
ton like periodic before the first of
each alternate week of the Court of
Common Pleas, and at such other
times rs the respective Courts may
order, shall issue write of Ueni7e fdcids
for jurors, and shall therein require
the attendance of jurors on the first
day of the term, and for the Court of
| Common Pleas for the County of
Charleston on the first and each alter
nate week thereafter, and such other
days as the Courts may order. The
petit jurors returned for the Court of
General Sessions for Charleston
County shall serve for the term, and
the jurors returned for the Court of
Common Pleas for two weeks.
TX. The Clerks in issuing the Ue-
nires shall require from each town
and city number of jurors as nearly
as may be in proportion to their re-
spective number of inhabitants, so as
to equalize, as far as possible, the
duty of serving as Jurors.
x. The centres shall be delivered
to the Sheriff of the County, and by
him transmitted to Constable in
each of the towns and cities to which
they are respectively issued, and they
shall be served by the Constable with
out delay on the Selectmen and Town
Clerk.
&I. Nothing contained in the pre-
ceding Sections shall prevent any
Court from issuing centres for addi-
tional jurors in term time, whenever
1T is necessary for the convenient
despatch of their business; in which
case the centres shall be served and
returned, and the jurors required to
attend on such days as the Court shall
direct.
XII. When suit is pending in the
Circuit Court, wherein the inhabi-
tants of any town in the County are
interested, the Judge of the Court,
IN term time or in vacation, may
order the Clerk Of the Court to issue
writs of Uenire .facids for a sufficient
number of jurors to try such cause,
from any town whose inhabitants are
not so interested, and the Clerk shall
issue oenls'e fdcidS accordingly.
Kill. All jurors, whether required
to serve on grand or petit jury, shall
be selected by drawing ballots from
the jury box, and the pers rs whose
names are borne on the ballots so
drawn shall be returned to serve as
jurors.
XIV. When jurors are to be so
drawn the Town Clerk and Select
NJ en- shall attend at the Clerks Office.
or some other public place appointed
for the purpose, and if the Clerk is
absent the Selectmen may proceed
without him. The balance in the Jury
box shall be shaken and mixed to-
gether, and one of the Selectmen,
without seeing the names written
thereon, shall openly draw therefrom
number of ballots equal to the
number of jurors required. If q per-
son so drawn is exempt by law, or is
unable by reason ofsickness or absence
from home to attend as Juror, or if
he has served rs Juror in any Court
within the year then next preceding,
his name shall be returned into the
box, and another drawn in his stead.
AV. When person is drawn and
returned to serve as a juror in any
Court the Selectmen shall endorse
on the ballot the date of the draft,
and return it into the box; and when.
ever there is q revision and renewal
of the ballots in the box the Select
men shall transfer to the new ballots
the date of all the drafts made within
the year then next preceding.
XVI. Any town may, at q legal
meeting, order that all drafts for iu
rors therein shall be made in open
town meeting; in which case the draft
shall be made by the Selectmen in
the manner prescribed in the two pre-
cedlng Sections, except that it shall
be done IN town meeting. In such
town when O OenD'e is served upon
the Selectmen, they shall cause n
town meeting to be notified and
warned for that purpose, in the man
ner ordered by the town or otherwise
prescribed by law.
XVII. The meeting for drawing
jurors, whether the draft is made in
town meeting or before the Selectmen
and Town Clerk only, shall be held
not less than seven nor more than
fifteen days before the day when the
jurors are required to attend.
XVIII. The Constable shall, at
least four days before the time when
the jurors are required to attend,
summon each person who is drawn
by reading to him the uenire with the
endorsement thereon of his having
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