Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-30
MUNICIPAL COURT JURIES.
Official Copy of the New Law Which Is
Expected to Improve the Administration

Official Copy of the New Law Which IL
Expected to Improve the Administration
of Justice.
AN ACT to amend section six (6) OF
chapter two hundred and eleven (21l)
of the special laws of one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six (lS76),
relating 10 the Municipal Courts of st.
Paul, approved March LIST, 1876.
Belt enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota
Section l. That section six (6) of the
act entitled Gan act to amend the act re-
lating to the Municipal Court of the city
of St. Paul, approved March Sth, 1875,
approved March 1st, 1876" be, and the
same is amended so as TO read and be as
follows, to-wit
Sec. 2. The Judge and Clerk of said
Court, in connection with the City At
torney shall, on the last Saturday of each
month in each year meet at the Munich
pal Court room in said city of st. Paul.
and from the electors of said city select
and designate forty eight of said electors
of said city as the jurors of said Mu-
nicipal Court, to serve therein
when required, and draw during
the succeeding month and until
their successors are selected. The Clerk
of said Municipal Court shall thereupon
write said names upon separate slips, and
place the same in q wheel or box, and
whenever jury is required in said court,
he shall thereupon, by lot, draw for a jury
of six, ten jurors; for a jury of twelve,
twenty Jurors. The jurors so drawn shall
be summoned to attend the trial of the
case wherein they were drawn The first
six or twelve so drawn shall constitute the
Jury unless some Of said jurors are ex-
cused, in which case the Clerk shall call
so many of the remaining jurors as shall
be required to fill the place of the jurors
excused, and in the event that jury can
not, for any cause, be filled and sworn
from the Jurors so summoned, then the
Clerk shall draw other names from said
box or wheel, and summon the same un-
til the jury is full. The jury shall be
sworn as in the District Court, and the
functions of judge and jury, in the trial
of causes, shall be the same as in the
District Court. and exceptions to the
rulings and decisions of the judge and
his charges, and his refusals to charge,
may be taken as upon trials IN
the District Court, and said Court is
vested with all power over cases within
it's Jurisdiction which are possessed by
District Courts of this state over cases
within their jurisdiction and all laws OF
general nature shall apply to said Mu-
unicipal Court so far as the same can be
applicable and not inconsistent with the
provisions of this act and other
laws not inconsistent herewith. Jurors
in said Municipal Court shall be entitled
to like fees in the trial of civil actions as
Jurors in Justices Courts, but the party
demanding Jury in any civil action IN
said Court shall be required to advance
the fees for such Jury and the summon
ing thereof.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after Its passage.
Approved October %, A. D. 1881.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
hereby certify that have carefully
compared the foregoing with the original
on file in this department, and that it is
true and correct copy thereof, and OF
the whole of the same.
,> Witness my hand and the
Great Great Seal of the State this
Seal of Goth day of October, A. D.
State. 1881.
FRED Won BAUMBACH,
Secretary of State.