The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-04-27
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ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
LE6IsLATURE--sEssIeN 1870 AND 1871,
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PASSED BY THE


OFFICIAL.
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE MANNER OF DRAW
ING JURIEs.
SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives OF the State OF South
Carolina. now met and sitting in General As
sembIy, and by the authority of the same, All
persons who, are qualified to vote in the choice
of Representatives in the General Assembly,
shall be liable to-be drawn and serve as jurors,
except as hereafter provided.
SEC. 2. The following persons shall be ex-
empt from serving as jurors, to wit: The Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General
Comptroller General, State Auditor, State
Treasurer, Secretary of State, Superintendent
of Education, Commissioner of Agricultural
Statistics, members and officers of the Senate
and House of Representatives during the ses-
sion of the General Assembly, members OF the
Senate and House of Representatives OF the
United States, Judges and Justices OF any Court,
County Commissioners, County Auditors and
Treasures, Clerks Of Courts. Registers OF
Mesne Conyeyances, Sheriffs and their Depu-
ties. Coroners, Constables, the Marshals of the
United States and their Deputies, and all other
officers of the United States, counsellors and
attorneys at law, ordained ministers of the gos-
pei, officers of Colleges, preceptors and teachers
of academies, practicing physicians, and sur,
geens regularly licensed, cashiers and tellers OF
Incorporated banks, editors of newspapers, con-
slant ferrymen, nlillers carrying on that busi-
ness at the time, and all men actually employed
as such such officers and employees of rail
roads as are now exempt by law, and persons
who are more than sixty-fTe years old.
SEC 3. No person shall be liable to be drawn,
and serve as ajuror in any Court, oftener than
once in every year, but he shall not be 80 ex-
empt, unless he actually attends and serves as
juror in pursuance Of the draft: Prootded,
No person shall be exempt from serving On a
iuTys in any other Court in consequence of his
having served before Justice Of the Peace, or
Trial Justice.
SEC f. There shall be appointed by the Gov
ernor and confirmed by the Senate, one officer
for each county in the State, to be named and
designated Jury Commissioner, who, with the
County Auditor and Chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners, shall constitute Board
of Jury Commissioners for the County. Said
Jury Commissioner shall hold his Office for two
years, unless sooner removed by the Governor.
Sec s. The Board Of Jury Commissioners of
each county shall once In every year, during
the month of January, and for the present year,
within one month after the passage Of this Act,
perpare a list of such inhabitants of their re-
spective counties, not absolutely exempt, as
they may think well qualified to serve as Jurors,
being persons of good moral character, of
souud judgment and free from all legal excep-
tions,. which listshall include not less that one
from every twenty voters, nor more than one
from every ten voters, of their respective coun-
ties,
SEC. g. Of the list so prepared, the Board Of
Jnry Commissioners shall cause the names to
be written, each one on separate paper or bal
lot, and shall fold up said pieces of paper or
ballots SO as to resemble each other as much as
possible, and so the name written thereon shall
not be visible on the outside, and shall place
them in box, to be furnished them. by the
County Commissioners of their county for that
purpose, and by said Board of jury Commis-
sioners to be kept.
SEC. z. If any person whose name is SO
placed in said Jury box is convicted of any
scandalous crime, or is guilty of any gross i'm
morality, ,.his name shall be withdrawn there
from by the Board Of Jury Commissioners, and
he shall tbe returned as aajuror.
SECS. The Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in each County, at least fifteen days be-
fore the commencement of any regular term OF
the Court.of General Sessions for the County,
and ten days before any special session requir-
ing Jury, and in the County of Charleston
like periods before the first of each alternate
week of the Court of Common Pleas, and at
such other times as the respective Courts may
order, shall issue writes of ven;re facias for ju-
rors, 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 alternate week
thereafter, and such other days as the Courts
may order. The petit jurors returned for the
Court of General Sessions for Charleston Coun-
ty shall serve for the term, and the jurors re-
turned for the Court of Common Pleas for two
weeks; the jurors for the Court of General Ses-
sions for all other Counties, shall serve for the
term, and for the term of the Court of Common
Pleas Immediately following.
Sec. g. The venires shall be delivered to the
Sheriff of the County, and shall be served BY
him without delay, upon the Board of Jury
Commissioners of the County.
SEC 10. Nothing contained id the preceding
sections shall prevent the Clerk of any Court
of Common Pleas from issuing ueaires for addi-
Ional Jurors in term time, whenever it is neces-
sary for the convenient dispatch of business,
in which case the venire shall be served and re-
turned, and the Jury required to attend on such
days as the Court shall direct.
. Sec. IL. All jurors, whether required to serve
on grand or petit jury, shall be selected by
drawing ballots from the jury box, and the per-
sons whose names are borne on the ballots SO
drawn shall be returned to serve as jurors.
Sec. II. When jurors are to be drawn the
Board of Jury Commissioners shall attend at
the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas within and for that County, and in the
presence of the Clerk of the Conrt, and the
Sheriff of the County, shall shake up the
names in the jury box until they are well
mixed, and having unlocked said box, the said
Board Of Jury Commissioners, in the presence
of the Clerk of the Court and Sheriff of the
County, shall proceed to draw therefrom, with
eut seeing the names written thereon, num-
Der of ballots equal to the number of Jurors
required. If person SO drawn is exempted by
law, or is unable, by reason of sickness or ab-