The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-14
REVISING The JURY LISTS
The Jury Commissioners at Work on
Their Annual Revision.

The Hard Times Causing a Big
Rush of People to Get Their Names
on the List-The Commissioners
Work From the Tax Digest and Ex-
ercise Their Own Discretion as to
Who Is Worthy to Serve and Who
Is Not-About s,2Oo Names Now
/ on the List.
! The work of revising the jury lists was
! begun yesterday by the jury commission
ers. The work is one which will require
considerable time. and the commissioners
will meet every afternoon until they have
completed it. The jury list is revised an
nually. The commissioners this year are
the same that served last year. The
commission is composed as follows:
Jordan +. Brooks, chairman; S. p.
Goodwin, NJ w. Dixon, Thomas Ballan-
tyne, W. G. Cam, and E. F. Bryan. Mr..
J. X. =. Carr clerk of the court, is clerk
of the commission.
The jury commissioners are practically
supreme in their work, and it rests en-
tirely in their discretion as to whom they
will place upon the jury lists, and whom
they will leave of. A number of names
are dropped from the rolls at every revi-
sion-tuose who have died or removed
from the county, and some who, in the
opinion of the commissioners, have shown
themselves to be unfit for the response
bllity devolving upon jurors.
OVER 1000 NAMES
There are in round numbers Z, 200 names
upon the present jury list, which is not
quite half the number of names upon the
tax digest. AS the proportion of cOlored
Jurors is very small, however, 1t will be
seen that nearly two-thirds of the white
males of Il years of age and upward are
considered worthy TO serve upon juries.
The manner in which the commission
ers proceed in their work is to take the
tax digest and 60 over 1t, name by name.
and whenever they find name OF re-
specta bic citizen, who is not already upon
the Jury list it is put there. No
doubt there are many instances where
worthy men, who are not known to any
of the commissioners, are not placed upon
the list. II such person is an xious 10 get
on, however, and will get some RESPONSE
BILE party 10 present his name to the com
missioners he can readily get there The
ordinary business man is very willing to
have his name left off, and there are many
instances where men do not register or
vote in the hope that by so doing they
will be able to keep their names out of
the jury box
MANY ANXIOUS TO GET ON.
Where there is one man who is anxious
to keep his name of the list, however,
there are three who are anxious to get on,
and it can be safely said that the latter
class is not near so desirable material for
jurymen as the former. One sign of the
hard times is the number of men who are
anxious to get their names on the list
this year The commissioners are being
besieRed on all sides by men who are anx-
ious to get their names on in order that
they may stand a chance of getting
on a jury and thereby earning
few dollars to help tide over
the hard times Many are out of en-
ployment now who never cared before
whether they were summoned for Jury
duty or not, and who are very willing
now to take the 81 per diem which the
county pays for this service. 1t is likely
that this very thing will tend to increase
the jury list somewhat this year, though
the commissioners are not men who will
put on those whom they deem to be I'M
worthy, no matter what the considera-
tion.