The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-07-24

A further supplement to an act entitled "An
act concerning juries'' [Revisionl, approved
March twenty seventh, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy four.
/. BE it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State OF New Jersey, That
the twenty fourth section of the act to which
this is Il supplement be and the same is here
by amended so as to read as follows:
"a. And be il enacted, That when an order
shall be made for Il struck jury. the sheriff of
the proper county, or other officer who ought
to empanel the jury in such case, shall de-
liver at a certain day and place. to the judge
of the court before whom the Jury is to be
struck, a book containing the names of the
several persons in his county qualified to
serve rs jurors. with their places of abode !;
or his attorney. shall give six days previous
notice to the adverse party or his attorney,
and to the judge, sheriff or other officer afore-
said, OF the time and place OF striking the said
jury at which time and place the judge shall,
In the presence of the parties or their agents
or attorneys or such OF them as shall attend
tor that purpose, select and transcrbe from
the said book the names of forty-eight such
persons, with their places of abode, as he shall
think most impartial and Indifferent between
the parties, and best qualified rs to talents,
knowledge integrity, firmness and independ-
ence of sentiment TO try the said cause; and
thereupon the party applying for such jury,
his agent or attorney shall first strike one OF
the sal d names, and then the adverse party,
his agent or attorney shall strike out another,
and so on. alternately, until each have stricken
out twelve ; but il the adverse party shall not
attend such striking nor any person in his be-
and when each shall have stricken out twelve
as aforesaid, the remaining twenty-fOur shall
be the jury to be returned to try the said case:
or the said judge may in his discretion permit
either party to make n copy of said list so Sc
lected by him and postpone the actual strik-
ing OF said jury until IA future day to be fixed
by him, not less than five nor more than ten
days from the day OF selecting the said list al
which time The said parties or their agents, or
such of them as may attend for that purpose,
shall proceed to strike the said jury in the
manner hereinabove directed or as directed
I'm the twenty fl tth section OF this act, as the
case may require; and then the said judge
shall thereupOn make "A fair copy of the names
of the remaining twenty-fOnr persons, with
their places of abode, and certify the same
der his hand to be the list OF jurors struck
aforesaid for the trial of the said cause which
list shall be delivered to the sheriff other Of
hcers who ought to summon such jury, to-
gether with the venire facias, by the person
applying for such struck jury. his agent or at
torney, ut least ten days previous to the time
appointed for the trial OF such cause, and such
sheriff or other officer shall thereupon annex
the same list to the said venire facias and re-
turn the same as the panel OF the jury to try
the SAID canse, and summon them according
to the command of the said writ and IN case
OF neglect or refusal to deliYer the list and
venire aforesaid, the cause shall be tried by a
common jury of the county, unless the court
shall tor some good cause determine other
wise
p And be 1T enacted. That this act shall take
effec Immediately.
Approved May 8, 1894.