Year: 1862

of the circuit COURT shalt, at least len days
before the commencement of each term of
the circuit or of the criminal court, meet at
the City Hall in Washington city, and then
and there the clerk of the circuit court
shall publicly break the seal of said box
and proceed TO draw therefrom the names of
SO many persons are required /; and if the
jury about to be drawn is intended for ser
vice in the criminal court, the twenty three
persons whose names shall be first drawn
sLaH constitute the grand iurY, aud the
twenty-six persons whose names shall next
be drawn shall constitute the petit jury for
that term but in a capital case where the
said panel shall have been exhausted by
reason OF challenge or otherwise, the court
before whom such capital case is pending
may, in its discretion, order additional
names to be drawn; and if all of the names
in the box shall have been drawn out and
DO jury found, the court may order the mar
shall 10 summon talesmen until jury shall
be found. And if jury be required for the
circuit court, the twentysix persons whUse
names shall first be drawn, shall constitute
the jury for that term, and the names of the
persons drawn as aforesaid shall not be
again placed in such box for the period of
two years. If any person whose name is
SO drawn shall have died or removed from
the District, or has become otherwise disa-
bled from serving as a juror, the said reg
lister and clerks shall draw from the box
another name who shall serve Instead and
after the requisite number of jurors shall
have been SO Drawn, the said uox shall be
again sealed and delivered to the clerk of
the circuit court as foresaid.


Sec. 6. Aad be 1t further enacted, That
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District Of Columbia, at least five days be-
fore the meeting of a court for which iu-
ry is re quired, 10 notify each person drawn,
by serving on him notice in writing of
his selection as a juror of the court he is to
attend, and OF the day and hour he is to
appear; which notice shall be given to each
juror in person, or be left at his usual place
OF residence; a copy of which notice with
bis certificate stating when and in what
manner the original was served, shall be
returned by the said marshal to the court
before the commencement of the term for
which the Said jurors were drawn.


Sec. Z. Aad be it further ena.ted, That in
case Of either Of the officers whose duty it is
to make out the lists foIesaid sha | neglect
or refuse to act, or in case either of them
shall be interested in any action or pre- ceed-
ing pending in the said circuit or criminal
court, the chef judge of the circuit court
shall appoint fit and proper person to dis
charge the duty instead and if the persons
selected as Jurors do not attend, the court
may order the marshal to summon other
respectable Taxpayers, possessing the other
legal qualifications, to supply The deficiency.
And If at any time there should not be, by
reason OF challenge or otherwise, a suffi-
cIent number of jurors 10 make up the
panel, the court shall order the marshal to
summon as many talesmen as are necessa-
Ty for that purpose.


Sec. 8. and be ii further enacted, That
no person shall be competent to act as a
juror unless he be a citizen of the United
ats over twenty-one and under q Ski 4kt914fRQ55 1l4fRQ5
years of age, good and lawful man, who
has never been convicted of a felony or
misdemeanor involving moral turptude.-
Aud person may be excused by the court
from serving on jury when, tor any reason,
his interests or those of the public will be
materially injured by his attendance, or
when he is party in any action or pro-
ceeding to be tried or determined by the
intervention of jury at the term for which
he may be summOneI, or where his own
health or the death or sickness of a MEM
Der of his family requires his absence.


Sec. And be 1t further enacted, That
if any officer named in the first section of
this act shall put on the list he is required
to make, the name of any person a: his own
request, or on the request of any other
person, or shall be guilty of any fraud or
colusion with respect to the drawing OF
jurors, he shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and shall be punished by fine
of not less than one hundred dollars, and
imprisoned in the county Jail not less than
sixty days, for each and every offence
And if the clerk of the circuit court shall
draw from the box a greater number of
names than is required by the court IN ac-
cordance with the provisions of this act, or
shall put in said box any name etter the
same has been delivered to him as aforesaid,
or shall be guilty of any fraud or collusion
in respect to the drawing of jurors, be shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanOr; and
shall be punished by a fine of not less than
one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in
the county Jail not less than sixty days, for
each and every offence.


Sec. 10. And be ii further enacted, That
if any person selected as a juror and duly
notified to attend according to the require
ments of this act, shall, without sufficient
cause, neglect to attend agreeably to such
notice, he shall be fined by the court 10
sum not exceeding twenty dol lars for every
day be shall be absent during the sitting of
said court.


Sec. IL. And be it further enacted, That
the names on the lists specified in the sec
ond section of this act shall be selected as
near as may be, from among the citizens of
the several wards of the cities of Washing
ton and Georgetown, and the three divisions
of the county of Washington outside the
limits of said cities formed by the Eastern
branch of the Potomac river and Rock
creek, in proportion to the number of taxa
BILE inhabitants residing in said wards and
districts, respectively.