The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-07-05

within twenty days from the pass
age of this act, prepare legal and
proper lists ofjurors, and from the
lists 80 prepared all grand and petit
jurors, required by law for the said
year 1877, shall be forthwith
drawn, summoned and returned. in
the manner now prescribed by law,
and the Jurors so drawn shall serve
at the general and special terms of
the court first following the time of
such drawing, whether or not the
same shall have taken place the mum,
Der of days before such general or
special term now required by law.
Sec. Q. When, by reason of chal-
lenge or otherwise, there is o de6ci-
ency in the number of grand or Pc
tit jurors duly drawn and moned
at any term OF the court in any coun-
ty of the State, the Judge of the Cir
cult Court shall order the Board of
Jury Commissioners, or majority
thereof, forthwith to attend in court,
and to draw, in the presence and
under the direction of the court, such
number of jurors rs the court shall
deem necessary to fill such deficiency,
the jurors 80 drawn to reside within
tive miles of the court house, and
when drawn shall attend and serve
during the term, except for the coun
ty of Charleston, who shall serve in
accordance with the law relating to
jurors in said county. And no Juror
who has been drawn to serve at any
term of the court shall be excused, ,
except for good and sufficient cause,
upon affidavit, which, together with
his application, shall be filed in the
office of tho Clerk of the Court, and
remain OF record. And no Jurors
shall be summoned from among the
| bystanders, other than in the manner
herein prescribed; and all acts and
parts of acts providing for tho sum~
moning of jurors from the bystand-
ers are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. That whenever, during
any year, in any county OF the State,
the'list of jurors prepared shall be
adjudged illegal or irregular, the
Judge of the Circuit Court in and
for said county shall order the Board
ofJury Commissioners in and for such
county forthwith to prepare proper
lists of jurors, after the manper pre-
scribod BY !aw, and therefrom to
draw all such grand and petit Jurors
as shall be necessary for such year,
who shall be drawn, summoned and
returned in the manner prescribed
by law, and shall serve in like man
ner as if such lists had been prepared
during the month of January in
such year and the said jurors drawn
therefrom at the times now required
by law.
Sec. 4. That when the jury lists
are prepared by the Jury Commits
sioners for each year, they shall
place in n separate apartment in the
jury box the names of fifty persons,
qualified by law to servo as Jurors,
who shall reside within five miles of
the court house, from which slrall be
drawn the jurors to supply tlro de-
ticiencies provided for in the second
section OF this act: Provided, That
in the county Of Richland the num-
ber Of names to be placed in the
separate apartment heretof ire pro-
vidcd f1r shall bo 100, and in the
county of Charleston $50.
Sec. 5. That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with this act be and
the same arc hereby repealed.
Approved June 8, 1877.
An Act to prohibit the sale Of seed
cotton between the time of the sit
ting and rising Of the sun, and to
regulate the sale of seed cotton.