Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-19
Exemptions under the Jury Law.

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be identical with those of another
bill, introduced in the course of the
session. which bill was finally laid
aside. After prescribing the manner
Of making up jury lists and drawing
grand and petit jurors, the law pro-
ceeds as follows:
Section 9. The following named per-
sons, and no others. may be exempted
from serving as grand or trial jurors,
upon complying with the conditions
herein prescribed, and not otherwise !:
any judge, justice of the peace. cour-
~ clerk, sheriff, assessor. constable,
practicing attorney, or physician, and
one-half of all members of each re.
gularly enrolled fire company within
this State, and all officers of such fire
company, not to exceed ten in num-
Der for each company. The several
District Judges in this State may, by
an order entered upon the minutes
OF their courts. prescribe bounds be-
yond which persons may be exempt
ed from jury service. a. hereinafter
specified. Any person residing with
out such bounds may present his
affidavit showing his exemption to
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shall be satisfied therefrom that lie is
n of the persons entitled to be eN-
empted under the provisions of this
Act, he shall indorse thereon an order
TO the clerk to make AZ entry on the
jury list. opposite the name OF the al,-
plicant, showing that he is exempted
from Jury service till the first Mon
day of January next ensuing. Upon
presentation of this order to the
clerk, and upon payment 10 him Of
the sum of twenty-five dollars, in
gold coin. it shall be the duty of the
clerk to grant him a certificate show
ing the payment of said sum, and
specifying that he is exempted from
jury service until the first Monday OF
January next ensuing. The clerk
shall also file the affidavit and order,
and make the proper entr" on the
jury list. The moneys coming into
the hands of the clerk, under the
aJury Fund. forthe safe keeping and
due application of which the clerk
and his bOndsmen shall be RESPONSE
Bile IN his official bond. 1t shall be
applied, first, to the payment to
the clerk of fifty cents for each
juror exempted. for his services
in filing the affidavit and order,
and issuing the certificate here
in provided for. and two per cent.
of the whole sum collected for all
other services rendered in pursuance
of this Act. The balance of the fund
shall be applied to the payment of
the compensation Of the jurors who
serve IN trial iurieS. II shall be the
duty of the clerk to keep an accurate
account of all moneys received and
disbursed under the provisions of this
section, and to submit the same to
the inspection of the court whenever
it is so ordered and it shall he the
duty of the Judge TO inspect and veri-
~ said account at the close of each
term of court. 1t shall also lie the duty
ofthe clerk to keep an account of the
attendance of each juror during the
term of court, and AT the close of the
term to ascertain the amount due each
juror for mileage and attendance. af-
ter deducting the amount received by
him as fees in civil cases. Ii there is
money enough in the Jury Fund to
pay the jurors in full, it shall he d.
vidsd among them in proportion to
the amounts due them, respectively,
ana the balance shall be paid out of
the General Fund OF the County
Treasury, after the satisfaction of any
demands against said fund previously
allowed.
Section 10. At any time during the
term, the court may, in its discretion.
excuse temporarily, or for the term,
any juror on account of sickness or
physical disability, or serious illness
or death of a memOer of his immedi-
ate family.
Section IL. ANY person summoned
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juror, shall, unless excused bv the
court, be fined in any sum not en-
ceeding five hundred dollars, IN the
discretion of the court. and he i'm
prisoned in the County Jail until such
hne is paid, at the rate OF two dollars
per day.
Section II. Each Juror summoned
IN pursuance of this statute. unless he
be excused by the court from serving
on the day he is summoned to attend,
shall receive three dollars per dav for
each and every day he ma lie in at
tendance on court, and fifteen cents
per mile in travelling to and returning
from court, to be paid as hereinUefore
provided.
1t is asserted that the bill is faulty,
In that it does not provide the manner
in which that portion of fire COM
panies liable to jury duty shall be
selected or, rather, which amounts
to the same thing, it does not deter
mine how the members To be ex.
empted shall be set apart from those
who are liable. The Enterprise puts
the case thus: "Should thew be
selected by the officers of the com
pany, will the courts recognize the
selection? This is doubtful. Under
the circumstances, will it not he held
that no member of a fire company is
exempt until after one-half of all the
members Of the company to which
he belongs shall have been dra xn :
This would be practically no exemp-
ton at all. for the drawing of thirty
or forty members for jury service
from any one company would never
occur. With the lists of members
before him, the Judge might himself
designate the exemptions and this is
probably the manner in which the
exemptions will finally be made un-
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