Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

from the electors of the county who pos
sess the necessary legal qualifications for
jury duty prescribed in *sec-
ton 1924 of the statutes, the names of
not less than SeVenty-fiVe nor more than
one hundred and fifty persons to serve as
grand jurors in the county for the ensuing
year, and make a list of the same. I'M
mediately after such grand jury list has
been completed said commissioners shall
enter the names Of the persons composing
it upon a suitable record book kept for the
purpose and shall certify over their re-
spective signatures that such list is cor
rectly entered and recorded therein and
shall thereupon deposit such record book
with the clerk of the court Of such coun-
ty who shall securely keep the same SO
that the grand jury list entered and re-
corded therein as aforesaid shall not be-
come known. If for any cause such list
shall rot be made as aforesaid before the
last Monday in November in each year
said commissioners may make out the
same at any time thereafter.
Section s. Section 4701 of the statutes
is amended to read Section 4101. The
impaneling and qualifications of the jury,
the challenge of jurors for cause, the
duty of the court in charging the jury
and Of giving them further instruction
and discharging them when unable to
agree shall be the same in criminal cases
provided by law in civil cases, except
that section 1851 of the statutes shall not
apply to criminal cases.
Section 9. Section 1878 of the statutes
Is amended to read: Section 1878 In
each and every county whose Inhabitants
exceed in number one hundred and fifty
thousand all the duties mentioned in the
foregoing sections of this chapter shall be
performed by the coroner thereof who is
hereby invested with the exclusive juris-
diction and power to take inquests therein
except that he may be assisted in so
doing by the deputy coroner thereof.
and in case of the inability of the cor
oner to attend to such duties his deputy
may perform them. 9
Section 10. Section 2546f Of the stat
utes is amended to read: Section 2546f.
Every grand jury shall have the power
in addition to the appointment Of one
of their own number to be their clerk,
now provided by law, when ordered
by the judge ordering such grand jury,
to employ a competent stenographic re-
porter to attend all their sessions and
to take down in shorthand a complete
report of all proceedings had before them,
and such stenographic notes shall, as
soon as convenient, be Transcribed into
longhand by such reporter and deposited
with the attorney general or with the
district attorney of the county or both
as the grand jury may direct Before
assuming the duties herein prescribed
such reporter shall make and file an
oath faithfully to report and transcribe
all the proceedings before such grand
jury and to keep inviolate the secrecy
required by law to be kept relative to
such proceedings. He shall be
paid out Of the county treasury of the
county in which the service is rendered
such sum as shall be audited and allowed
by the court ordering said grand jury,
not to exceed ten dollars per day for
each day actually engaged before the
grand jury as such stenographic reporter.
and for transcribing his notes the fees
now prescribed by law for similar ser
vices in courts of. record. Such steno-
graphic reporter may at his own expense
employ the assistance Of a competent
typewriter operator in transcribing his
notes of the testimony and proceedings
of said grand jury but before entering
upon his duties hereunder such typewriter
file an oath similar to that required of
such reporter The accounts Of
such stenographic reporter shall be
approved by the presiding judge of the
court ordering said grand jury.
Section II. A new section is added to
the statutes to read: Section 4502m
Every stenographic reporter and every
typewriter operator who takes and vio-
lates the oath required of him by sec
ton 2546f shall upon conviction thereof,
be punished by Imprisonment in the
state prison not less than one nor more
than five years.
Section r. Section 2558 of the statutes
is remembered and amended to read :
Section 45o2n. When, by neglect of any
of the duties required in chapter
116 to be performed by any of the officers
or persons : therein mentioned,
the jurors to be returned shall not be
duly drawn and summoned to attend
the court, every person guilty of such
neglect shall pay a fine not exceeding
twenty dollars, to be imposed by the
same court, into the treasury of the
county in which the offense is COM
mitted.
Section 49, Section 1859 of the statutes
is retained without verbal change but is
remembered to be section 4502o.
Section II. This act takes effect when
published.
Approved June 6, 1918. Copy Law