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RyW A.LEE AND HUGH WILSON.

| possible, and so the name written there
on shall not be visible on the outside
and shall place them in a box, to b'
furnished them by the County Com
misSioners Of their county for tha
| purpose, and by said Board Of jury
Commissioners to he kept.
SEC. Z. If any person whose name l:
so placed in >aid jury box is convicted
of any sc;inIaiOus crime, or is gully 0
any gross immortality, his name silal
be Withdrawn thcrctrom by the BoaTt
OF Jury Commissioners, and lie shall no
be returned as u juror.
SEC. S. The Clerk Of the Court o
! Common Pleas in each county, at lcas
! fifteen days before the commencement
of aiy regular term of The Court OF Gen.
( cral Sessions for the county, ana ter
days before any special! session requiring
! a Jury, and in tie county of Charleston
| like periods before the first OF each al
! tcrnate week of the Court OF Common
Pleas, and at such other eimes as the
respective court may order, shall ISSUE
wrils OF CCnirc, ,fttci0s for jurors, and sha:!
! 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
"ltcrr"t" wco> Thereafter, and such
other DAYS as the Courts may oTGcr.
The petit jurors returned for the Court
of General Sessions for Charleston Coun-
ty shall serve for the term, and the
Jurors returned for the Court Of Common
| Pleas for two weeks; the jurors for the
Court Of General Sessions for all other
Counties shall serve for the term, and
for the term of the Court of Common
Pleas Immediately following.
SEC. 9. The rclSires 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 in the
preceding sections shall prevent the
Clerk OF any Court of Com mon Pleas
from issuing centres for additional jurors
in term time, whenever it is necessary
fo. the convenient despatch of business,
in which case, the rcniTC shall be served
and returned, and the jury required to
atteEd Oh such days rs the Court shall
direct.
SEC. II. All Jurors, whether required
to serve on grand or petit jury, shall be
selected by drawing ballots from the
jury box, and the persons whose names
arc born on the ballots so drawn shall be
returned to serve as jurors.
SEC. T. 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 Court. and the Sheriff or
the County, shall shake up'the names
in the jury box until they are well mix
ed, and, having unlocked said box, the
said Jury Commissioners, in the presence
Of the Clerk of the Court and Sheriff OF
the County, shall proceed to draw there
from, without seeing the names written
thereon, number OF ballots equal to the
number Of jurors required. Ii person
so drawn is exempted by law, Or is una
bic, by. reason OF sickness or absence
from home, to attend as ajuror, or If he
has served is a juror i'll any Court With
in the year then next preceding, his
name shall be returned into the box, and
another drawn in his stead: iiOH0Cd,
That, if the Clerk aud Sheriff shall. fail
10 att8ld, after due notice. Tie Jury
Commissioner shall proceed without
them, and the jury 50 drawn sA@i! be
lawful.
SEC. 13. When any person is drawn
and returned to serve as q juror in any
Court, the Board OF jury Commission
ers shall endorse on Tie ballot tle'datc
O.. the draft, and return it into the box
after TIE nW!Eh"l OF jurors required have
been drawn; and whenever there l. q
revision aud renewal Of tie ballots in
the box, the Board OF Jury Commission
crs shall transfer TO the new ballots the
date of all the drafts made within thc
year then next preceding.
SEC. II. The time FOR drawing jurors
Shall not be less than seven nor more
thar fifteen days before the day when
the Jurors are required to attend.
SEC. -. The Sheriff shall, ut least
four days before the time when the .iu-
rors are required to attend, summon
each person who is drawn, by reading to
him the Uenirc, with his endorsement
thereon of his having been drawn, or by
leaving at his place of abode u written
notification of his having been drawn,
and of the time and place OF tie sitting
OF the Court at which he is to attend,
and shall make return OF the Ucnuc,
with his doings thereon, TO the Clerk Of
the Court, before the opening o" time OF
holding the Court, from which II issued.
SEC. lG. On the day when the jurors
are summoned to attend at any Court,
the Clerk shall prepared list OF their
names arranged i'll alphabetical oTG9S..
The first twelve OH the list who are not
exempt, shall be sworn and empanneii-
ed as q jury for the trial of causes, and
shall be called the first jury. The next
twelve on the list shall be sworn and EN-
pannclcd in like manner, and shall be
called the second jury.
SEC. Il. Suprrnumerary jurors may
be excused, from time TO time, until
wanted, and may be put on either Of
the iuries, as occasion requires, in the
place of absentees. Nothing herein
contained shall prevent the transferring
of Jurors from one jury to another when
the convenience OF the Court or OF the
Jurors require it.
SEC. IS. Each jury, after being thus
empunnel!cd, shall retire and choose
their foreman, or shall make such
choice upon retiring with the first cause
with which they are charhed ; and when
ever the foreman is absent or excused
from further service, a new foreman
shall be chosen in like manner.
SEC. 10. Nothing contained in the pre-
ceding sections shall apply to the en-
Dannelling of juries in criminal cases {;
but the jurors shall be called, sworn
and empannel!ed anew for the trial of
each case, according to the established
practice and their foreman shall be ap-
pointed by the court or by the jury
when they retire to consider their YER
dict.
SEC. %. When, by reason of chal-
1onre or otherwise, or q sufficient num-
of Jurors duly drawn and summoned,
caHuot be obtained for the trial of any
cause, civil or criminal, the court shall
,..;::se Jurors to be returned from the by
stonLSrs. or from the county at large,
to TO- comnlete the panel: Proricled, That
there arc on the jury not less than seven
IF the Jurors who were originally drawn
and summoned, as before provided.