The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-10-28

from by the Selectmen, ana ne
shall not be returned as juror.
VIII. The County Clerks in
each county, at least fifteen days
before the commencement Of any
regular term of the Court Of Gen.
eral Sessions, for the county, and
ten days before any special session
requiring a jury, and in the Coun-
ty of Charleston like periods be-
fore the first of each alternate
week of the Court of Common
Pleas, and at such other time as
the respective courts may order,
shall issue writs of venire facias 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 on5the first
and each alternate week thereaf'
ter, and such other days as the
Courts may order: Fhe petit ju-
rors returned for the Court of Gen
eral 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
vcnires shall require from each
town and cityea number of jurors
as nearly as may be in proportion
to their respective number of in
habitants, so as to equaiize, as far
as possible, the duty Of serving as
jurors. .'.@r -. -, ,... o......,.
*. Tire renires shall be deliv-
cred to the Sheriff Of the country,
and by him Transmitted to a Con-
stable in each Of the towns and
cities to which they are respec-
lively issued, and they shall be
served BY the Constable without
delay on the scleetmcn and Town
Clerk.
81 XI. Nothing contained in the
preceding Sections shall prevent
any Court from issuing venires for
additional jurors in term time,
whenever it is necessary for the
convenient dispatch Of their busi-
ness in which case the venires
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 in
habitants Of any town in the coan-
ty are interested, the Judge of
the Court, in term time or in va
cation, may order the Clerk OF the
Court to issue wrlts Of uenire facias
for a sufficient number Of jurors to
try such cause, from any town
whose inhabitants are not so in
tcrestcd, and the Clerk shall issue
a uenire faeias accordingly.
XIII. ALI jurors, whether re-
quired to serve On grand or petit
jury, shall be selected by drawing
ballots from the jury box, and the
persons 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
men shall attend at the Clerks
Office, or some other public place
appointed for tho purpose, andaf
the clerk is absent the selectmen
may proceed without him. The
balance in the jury box shall be
sha1cn and mixed together, and
one of the Sclectmen, without
seeing the names written thereon.
shall openly draw thercffom a
number of ballots equal to the
number of jurors required. If a
person so drawn is exempt by law
or is unable by reason Of sickness
or absence from homo to attend as
a Juror or if he has served as q
Juror in any Court within the
year. then next preceding, his
name shall be returned into the
box. and another drawn in hi
stead.
XIV. When a person is drawn
and returned to serve as a juror
in any Court, the Selectmen shall
endorse on the ballot the date O
the draft, and return it into The
box; and whenever there is a re
vision and renewal of the ballots
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