The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1894-07-04
CHAPTER CXLVI.

A further supplement to an act entitled An
act concerning juries' lRevisionl, 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 supplement be and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
"a. And be it enacted, That when an order
shall be made for struck jury, the sheriff of
the proper county, or other officer who ought
to empanel the jury in such a case shall de-
liver at a certain day and place, to the judge
of the court to whom the jury is to be struck,
a book containing the names of the several
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 six days previous notice to
the adverse party or his attorney, and to the
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 parties or their agents or at
torneys, or such of them as shall attend for
that purpose, select and transcribe from the
said book the names of forty-eight such per-
sons, with their places of abode, as he shall
think most impartial and indifferent between
the parties, and best qualified as to talents,
knowledge, integrity, firmness and indepen-
dence 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 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
for him; and when each shall have stricken
out twelve aforesaid, the remaining twenty
four shall be the jury to be returned to try the
the said case; or the said judge may in his dis
erection permit either party to make copy of
said list so selected by Linn and postpone the
actual striking of 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 di-
rected in the twenty-ffth 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-four persons,
with their places of abode, and certify the
same under 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 or other officer who ought to summon
such jury, together with the yenire facias by
the person applying for such struck jury. his
agent or attorney, at least ten days previous to
the time appointed for the trial of such cause
and such sheriff or other officer shall there
upon annex the same list to the said venire
facias and return the same as the 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 refusal to deliver the
list and yenire aforesaid, the cause shall be
tried by common jury of the county, unless
the court shall for some good cause determine
otherwise.
2. And be be it enacted That this act shall
take effect Immediately.
Approved May s, 1894.