The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-10-21
CHAPTER 20.
A supplement to an act entitled "An act
concerning iuries" (Rivision), approx
ed March twenty-seventh, one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-four.


A supplement to an act entitled "An act
concerning juries' (Rivision), approx
ed March twenty-seventh, one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Be IL enacted 6y the Senate and Gen
erdI assembly Of the State Of Nea0 Jer-
seq:
/. In each county of this State there
shall be appointed by the Chancellor of
this State, one citizen, resident therein,
who shall not be member of the same
political party as the sheriff OF such
county, and who, together with the sher-
iff of such county, shall constitute and
be designated as Commissioners of
Juries. The certificates of appointment
shall be filed in the office of the clerk of
the county in and for which said COM
missioner is appointed. Such commits
sioners shall, before they enter upon the
discharge of their duties, take and sub
scribe an oath, faithfully and impartially
to execute the duties of their Office ac-
cording to the best of their skill and I'M
derstanding, which oath shall be filed in
the Office of the clerk of said county.
Noperson holding any other public Office,
or licensed to practice law in this State,
shall be appointed as a commissioners of
juries except as herein otherwise pro-
vided.
2. The said appointed commissioner
in said county shall hold Office for the
term of one year. The office of any APP
pointed commissioner of juries shall be-
come vacant Immediately upon his as
Stunning the duties of any other public
Office. Such appointed commissioner
shall receive such compensation as shall
be fixed by the justice of the Supreme
hAl If1c
county, but not more than the sum of
nine hundred dollars per annum in
counties of the first class, seven hundred
and fifty dollars per annum in counties
of the second class, and five hundred
dollars per annum in all other counties,
to be paid semi-monthly by the board of
chosen freeholderS of such county, and
such board of chosen freeholders shall
provide such commissioners with such
stationery and other equipment as may
be required by such commission.
3. The Chancellor of this State may
at any time, remove the appointed COM
missioner in any county, and in case of
a vacancy occurring by such removal, or
by death, resignation, removal from the
county, Or because of disqualification by
the assuming of the duties of any other
public Office, or for any other reason,
shall appoint his successor for the bal
ance of the term. The certificate of re-
moval and of appointment to fill the
vacancy shall be filed in the office of the
clerk of said county.
4. The commissioners of juries may,
upon the approval of the justices of the
Supreme Court assigned to hold the Cir
cult Court in their county, employ a
clerk at salary to be fixed by such JUS
tice, not to exceed the sum fixed and to
be paid to the appointed commissioner
in such county, which salary shall be
paid semi-monthly by the board of
chosen freeholders of such county, and
which said clerk shall hold Office only at
the pleasure of the said justice.
5. The commissioners of juries shall,
at least thirty days prior to the COM
mencement of each term of the Circuit
Court in their county, make two lists,
alphabetically arranged, of persons liable
to jury duty, having regard to the just
distribution of jury service among those
persons qualified therefor in the various
wards and municipalities ofsuch county,
with their occupation and places of abode
and designating their respective munich
palities and wards (if any in municipal
tiles, which lists shall be designated re-
spectively grand jury list" and petit
ed on the grand jury list shall at no time
be less than three hundred, and the
number of persons named on the petit
jury list shall at no time be less than
five hundred. The commissioners shall
cause two copies to be made of each of
said lists and shall certify the same UNI
der their hand as true and correct and
shall cause one copy of each to be filed
in the Office of the clerk of such county
at least twenty-five days prior to the
commencement of each term of the Cir
cult Court in their county, there to re-
main public record, and shall cause
the other copy to be delivered to the JUS
tice of the Supreme Court assigned to
hold the Circuit Court in such county.
Upon the filing of such list with the
county clerk he shall cause a copy there
of to be made Immediately and posted
in his Office in conspicuous place. Said
commissioners may, from time to time,
before certifying such lists, revise, strike
off and add thereto, and the said justice
may at any time order said commission
ers to revise, correct and certify a new
jury list or lists which shall not contain
any names Heretofore stricken off with
in one year. Each name on the re-
spective jury shall be numbered in con-
secutiVe order. Said commissioners shall
have access to and may copy the assess
ment rolls and registry lists of the sever
al municipalities and election districts of
their county, and they may, before GER
tifying any lists, send notices to all per-
sons whose names they may propose
placing ON such lists, requesting such
persons to present to the commissioners
any claim they may have to exemption
from jury duty, and upon satisfactory
reasons being given therefor they may
be excused by the court.
6. On day and time to be fixed by
the justice of the Supreme Court, not
more than fifteen days before the COM
mencement of each term of the Circuit
Court, the county clerk of the county, or
his deputy, shall in open court, present
to such justice, or in his absence to the
president judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of such county, the jury lists for
the term filed with such county clerk,
and the jury commissioners shall at the
same time and place, produce uniform
pieces of metal, with numbers stamped
or impressed thereon in consecutive order
to correspond with the numbers set OPP
Witness my hand this Sixteel
our Lord one thousand nine humid