Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-20
Acts aad Joint Resolutions Passed
by the Observation-Disclosures lS70
and 1871.
OFFICIAL.
AN ACT to Regulate tie Manner Of
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AN ACT to Regulate tie Manner ef
Ero.cing Juries.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the State Of South Carolina, now
met and sitting in General Assem-
blv, 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, ex-
cept as hereafter provided.
SEC. ?. The following persons shall
be exempt from serving as Jurors, to
wit: The Governor, Lieutenant Gov
enor, At.orney-General. Comptroller
General. State Auditor, State Treas
nrer, Secretary Of State, Superinten
dent OF Education, Commissioner Of
Agricultural Statistics, members and
officers of the Senate and House Of
Representatives during the session of
the General Assembly, members Of
the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives Of the United States, Judges
and Justices of any Court, County
Commissioners, County Auditors and
Treasurers, Clerks of Courts, Regis
ters Of Mesne Conveyance, Sheriffs
and their Deputies, Coroners, Consta-
bles, the Marshals Of the United States
ard their Deputies. and all other Off
GERS O. tire United States, counsellors
and attorneys-at-law, ordained min
isters OF the Gospel, officers Of colleges,
preceptors and.teachers of academies,
practiclng physicians and surgeons
regularly licensed, cashiers and tel
lars OF Incorporated banks, editors of
newspapers, constant ferrymen, mil
lers carving on that business at the
time. and all men actually employed
rs SUCH; such officers and employees
OF railroads as are now exempt by law,
and persons who are more than sixty
five years old.
SEC. 3. No person shall be liable
10 be drawn and serve as a juror in
any Court oftener than once in every
year; but he shall not he so exempt,
unless he actually attends and serves
rs a juror in pursuance Of the draft
Provided, No person shall be exempt
from serving on a jury in any dthe!
Court in consequence Of his having
served before Justice of the Peace,
or Trial Justice.
Src. /. There shall be appointed
By the Governor, and confirmed by
the Senate, one officer for each Coun-
ty in the State, to be named and des-
ignated a Jury Commissioner, who,
with the County Auditor and Chair
man Of the Board OF County Com
missioners, shall constitute Board
Of Jury Commissioners for the Coun-
ty. Said Jury Commissioner shall
hold his Office for two years. unless
sooner removed by the Governor.
SEC. 5. The Board of Jury Com
rlissiorers Of each County shall, once
in every year, during the month Of
January, and for the present We /
within one month after the passage
of this ACT, prepare list Of such
inhabitants of their respective Coun-
ties, not absolutely exempt, as they
may think well qualified to serve as
Jurors, being persons of good moral
character, Of sound judgment, and
free from all legal exceptions, which
list shall include Tot less than one
from every twenty voters, nor more
than one from every ten voters OF then i
respective Counties,
SEC. 6. OF the list SC prepared, The
Board of Jury Commissioners shall
cause the names to be written, each
one on separate paper or ballot,
and shall fold up said pieces OF pa
l.ar or ballots SO as TO resemble each
ather as much as possible, and SO the
name written thereon shall not De
visible on the outside, and shall place
them III a box, to be furnished them
by the County Commissioners of their
County for that purpose, and by
said Board of Jury Commissioners to
be kept.
SEC. 7. If any person whose name
is 50 placed in said jury box is CON
victed Of any scandalous crime, or is
guilty of any gross immortality, his
name shall he withdrawn therefrom
bv the Board of Jury Commission
ers, and he shalfnot be returned as a
Juror.
SEC. 5. Clerk Of the Court of Com
mon Pleas in each County, at least
fifteen days before the commencement
Of any regular term. of the Court of
General Sessions for the County, and
ten days before any special session
reouiringa Jury, and in the County
of Charleston Ike periods before the
first of each alternate week Of the
Court OF Common Pleas and at such
other times as the, respective Courts
NAV order, Shall issue 1wrifs Of Ge,alye
taraos for iiur5rs, and Shall therein re-
ouire tie attendance Of Jurors on the [