The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-18

the act to which this is a supplement be
and the same Is hereby amended soa $
to read as follows:
"a. And be it enacted, That when an or
der shall be made for a struck jury, the
sheriff of the proper county, or other Off
Ger who ought to empanel the jury in
such a case, shall deliver 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 sew
eral persons in his county qualified to
serve as jurors, with their places of
abode; and the party applying for such
struck jury, or his attorney shall give
party or his attorney, and tothe judge,
sheriff or other officer aforesaid, of
the time and place of striking the said
jury; at which time and place the judge
shall, in the presence of the partys or
their agents or attorneys, or such of
them as shall attend for that purpose,
select and transcribe 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
as to talents, knowledge, integrity, firm
ness and independence of sentiment to
try the said cause; and thereupon the
or attorney shall first strike one of the
said 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 If
the adverse party shall not attend such
striking nor any person in his behalf
then the said judge shall strike for
him; and when each shall have stricken
out twelve as aforesaid, the remaining
twenty-four shall be the jury to be re-
turned to try the said case ;or the said
judge may in his discretion permit either
party to make a copy of said list so
selected by him and postpone the actual
striking at said jury until a future day
to be fixed by him, not less than five
nor more than ten days from the day OF
selecting the said list, at 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 herein above directed, or as
directed in the tw~enty-hfth section of
this act, as the case may require; and
then the said judge shall thereupon make
ing twenty-four persons. with their
places of abode, and certify the same
under his hand to be the list of jurors
struck as aforesaid for the trial of the
said cause; which list shall be delivered
to the sheriff or other officer who ought
to summon such jury together with
the venire ~facias, by the person APP
plying for such struck jury, to-
gether with the venire facias. by the per-
son applying for such struck jury, his
previous to the time appointed for the
trial of such cause, and such sheriff
or other officer shall thereupou annex
the same list to the said venire facias and
return the same asthe PANEL of the
jury to try the said cause, and summon
them according to the command of the
said writ; and in case of neglect or re-
fusal to deliver the list and yenire afore-
said, the cause shall be tried by a COM
mon jury of the county, unless the court
2. And be 1t enacted, That this act
shall take effect Immediately.
Approved May s, 1894.