The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-16
GENERAL LAWS
Enacted By the Legislature of
 Alabama.

in substantial metal box, provided with
 lock and two keys, which box shall be | kept in the safe or vault in the office of
 the Probate Judge and if there be none
 in that office, the commission shall de- ! posit 1t in any safe. or vault in the Court
 House to be designated on the minutes
 and one of said keys thereof shall be
 kept by the President of the Commission. i The other of said keys shall be kept by
 judge of a court of record having iu-
 ries other than the Probate or Circuit | Court and In counties having no such court then by the Judge of the Circuit
 Court for the sole use of the judges of l the courts of said county needing jurors
 Sec. H. The Jury Commission shall
 place on the jury roll. and in the jury
 box, the names of all male citizens of the
 county. who are generally reputed to be
 honest and intelligent men, and are es-
 teemed In the community for their integ
 rity, good character and sound Judgment.
 but no person must be selected who is un-
 der twenty-one or over sixty-fve years
 of age. or who is an habitual drunkard,
 or who, being afflicted with a perma
 nent disease or physical weakness, is un-
 fit to discharge the duties of a juror, or ! who cannot read English, or who has
 ever been convicted of any offense in.
 volving moral turpitude. If person can-
 not read English and has all the other
 qualifications prescribed herein and is
 freeholder or householder his name may
 be placed on the jury roll and in the jury
 box
 Sec. 12 Whenever the names in the jury
 box are exhausted or so far depleted that they will probably be exhausted at the next drawing of jurors. the commission
 must proceed to make and certify a new
 roll, and deposit the names in the box
 in all respects as provided in this Act;
 and for this purpose the jury commission i must meet whenever it Is necessary and
 refill the jury box.
 Sec. 13. The following named persons, | and none others, are exempted from jury
 duty:-School teachers. while actually en- gagged in teaching; judges and clerks of the several State and Federal Courts: at- torneys at law actually engaged in the practice; practicing physicians, surgeons, dentists and licensed pharmacists; nurses, officers and servants of any hospital; the Sheriff and his deputies. U. s. Marshal and his deputies; train dispatchers and
 chief telegraph operators; police officers of any municipality; all officers and mem- : bers of any regular paid or volunteer fire department in active service; all state
 and county officers and Justices of the
 Peace; Post Masters; superintendents of
 street railroad; licensed engineers and
 pilots of any boat plying the waters of
 this State; railway mail clerks; railroad
 station agents and superintendents of
 mines, while engaged in their respective
 occupations; druggists in towns having
 only one drug store.
 Sec. IA The jury commission is charged
 with the duty of seeing that the name
 of every person possessing the qualiica-
 tions prescribed by this Act to serve as a
 juror shall be placed on the jury roll and
 In the jury box, and they may summon and cause to attend before them any per son residing within the county and exam | inc him on oath, touching the name, res | idence. occupation and qualifications of any person residing in the county. The I commission must not allow initials only 1 to be used for a jurors name, but one
 full Christian name, or given name, shall
 in every case be used, and in case there
 are two or more persons of the same, or similar name. the name by which he is
 commonly distinguished from the other
 
 shall also be entered as well as his true
 name. The commission shall require the
 clerk of the commission to scan the regis tration lists the lists returned to the tax
 assessor. any city directories, telephone directories, and any and every other source of information from which he may obtain information and to visit every pre-
 cnct at least once a year to enable the commission to properly perform the du- ties required of it by this Act
 Sec 15. Before the adjournment of any
 term of a court requiring jurors for the next term, the judge, or where there are more than one. then any two of the judges of the court shall draw from the jury | box in open court the names of not less | than fifty persons to supply the grand | Jury for such term and pettit juries for l the first week of such term of the court, | or if a grand jury is not needed for that | term, at least thirty persons, and as many more persons as may be needed Tor l jury service in courts having more than ! one division for the first week, and after each name Is drawn 1t shall not be re- turned to the jury box, and there snail | be no selection of names, and must seal l up the names thus drawn, and retain | possession thereof, without disclosing who i are drawn until twenty days before the l first day of the term of the court for ] which the jurors are to serve, when he shall forward these names by mall, or ex- ! press. or hand the same to the clerk Of | the court. who shall thereupon open the 1 package make list of the names drawn, | showing the day on which the jurors | shall appear and In what court they shall | serve. and entering opposite every name l the occupation of the person, his place or 1 business and of residence, and issue ! venire containing said names and infor-
 nation to the sheriff. who shall forthwith
 summon the persons named thereon to 1 appear and serve as jurors. If for any
 reason the judge fails before the ad- | iournment of the court to draw the juries | for the next term of the court, whether l it be adjourned term. special term, extra 1 term or a regular term, he shall at least | twenty days before the beginning of any l of the terms draw the jurors which he | should have drawn before the adjourn ment of the last term. If for any reason | the judge of the court fails to draw the | iuries as required in this section before | the twenty days above mentioned the | clerk of such court shall notify the judge 1 of any court of record, except Pro- l bate Judge residing nearest to the place l of holding the court, and 1t shall be his 1 duty upon receiving such notification to 1 immediately draw the juries for the next
 term of the court in the manner herein 1 provided.
 Sec. 16. The sheriff shall execute every 1 order to summon jurors, except as other l wise provided herein by giving personal l notice to every such person. or by leaving | written notice at the place of his res- 1 idence with some member of his family | or some person residing in the same | house. at least two days before the day l appointed for the service of the juror in I court which order must be returned to