Year: 1866

Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of
the Register of Washington city, and of the re-
spectVe clerks OF the city Of Georgetown and the
Levy Court of Washington county, i'll the Dis
trict of Columbia, within one month after the
passage OF this act and on or before the first day
OF February in each year thereafter, to make list
of such OF the white male citizens, taxpayers,
residing within their respective Jurisdictions as
they shall judge best qualified to serve as jurors
in the courts OF the said District in which lists
may be included, in the discretion of the officer
making the same, the names of such qualified
but did not serve as jurors and the lists thus
made by the register and clerks aforesaid shall be
kept by them, respectively, and be delivered over
to their successors in Office


SEC. 2 And be it further enacted, That the
officers aforesaid shall select from the list of the
register of Washington city the names of four
hundred persons, from that of the cel k of George
town eighty persons, and from that of the clerk
OF the levy court forty persons, which proportion
after the year eighteen hundred and sixty y-three
may be varied from year to year according to the
increase or decrease Of population in the respec-
tive Jurisdictions, by order of the Judges OF the
circuit court of Washington county.


SEC s. And be it further enacted, That the
Mayors of the cities of Washington and George
town. all judicial officers salared officers OF the
Government of the United States, commissioners
Of police, and those connected with the police or
fire department, cOunSellOrs and attorneys at law,
ministers of the gospel and priests of every de-
nomination, practicing physicians and surgeons,
keepers of hospitals, asylums, almshouses, or
other charitable institutions created by under
the laws relating to the District of Columbia,
captains and masters and other persons employed
on vessels navigating the waters of said District,
and keepers Of public ferries, shall be exempt
from jury duty, and their names shall not be
placed in the list Aforesaid.


SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the
names selected from said lists shall be written on
separate and similar pieces OF paper, which shall
be folded or rolled up that the names cannot
be seen, and placed in box, to be provided by
the register and clerks aforesaid which box shall
be sealed, and after being thoroughly shaken,
shall be delivered to the clerk OF the circuit court
of Washington county for saie-keeplng


SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, Ihat the
said register and clerks, and the clerk of the cir
cult court, SHALL at least ten days before the com
mencemcnt OF each term of the circuit or OF the
criminal court, meet at the City Hall i'll Washing
ton CITY, and then and there the clerk of the cir
cult court shall publicly break the seal OF said
box and proceed to draw thererom the names OF
SO many persons are required; and ii the jury
about to be drawn is intended Tor service i'll the
criminal court, the twenty three persons whose
names shal! be first drawn shall constitute the
grand jIry; and the twcnty-siN persons whose
names shall next be drawn shall constitute the
petit jury for that term; but in ii 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
it, discretion order additional names to be drawn;
and il all the names i'll the box shall have been
drawn out and no jury found, the court may ord
rr the marshal to summon talesmen until jury
shall be found And if Il jury be required for the
uiJ court, the twCnty-siX persons whose
names shall first be drawn shall constitute the
jury tor that term, and the names OF the persons
drawn aforesaid shall not be again placed IN
such box for the period OF two years. II any
person whose nalne Is drawn shall have dled
or removed from the District, or has become 9th
crwiSc disabled from serving Il juror, the said
register and clerks shall draw from the box
...thcr name, who shall serve instead; and after
IT,. requisite number OF jurors shall have been so
drawn the said box shall be again sealed and de-
lycred to the clerk OF the circuit court Us aore-
said.


be the duty of the marshal of the District of
Columbia, least five days before the meeting OF
the court for which jury is required to notify
flraNtr nTNh i'm
writing OF his selection juror of the court he
is 10 attend, and of the day and hour he is to ar
pear; which notice shall be given to each juror III
person, or be left at his usual place of residence;
a copy Of which notice, with his certificate stat
ing 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. :. And be it further enacted, That in case
either of the officers whose duty it Is to make
out the lists aforesaid shall neglect or refuse 10
act, in eitiei of them shall be interested
in any action or proceeding Pendin? III the SAID
circuit or criminal court, the chief judge of the
circuit court shall appoint fit and proper person
to discharge 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 qualitca-
tions, to supply the deficiency. And if at any
time there should not be, by reason OF challenge
otherwisr, Il sufficient number of jurors to
make up the panel, the court shall order the mar
shal to summon many talesmcn as are necessary
for that purpose.


SEC. s. And be it further enacted, That no per-
shall be competent to act juror unless he
be citizen OF the United States, resident OF the
District oI Columbia over twenty-one and under
siXty-tivc years of age, gOOO and lawful man,
who has never been convicted of a felony or mis-
dclncanOr involving moral turpitude. And a
person may be excused by the court from serving
jury when, for any reason, his interests or
those of the public will be materially injured by
his attendance, when he is party in any ac-
ton or proceeding to be tried or determined by
the Intervention of jury at the term for which
he may be summoned, or where his own health
don ol mn n
requires his absence


SEC. g. And be it further enacted, That if any
officer named in the first section of this act shall
put the list he is required to make, the name
of any person at his own request, or on the re
quest of any other person, or shall be guilty OF
any fraud coliusion with respect to the drawing
OF Jurors, he shall be deemed guilty OF a misde-
meanOr, and shall be punished by a fine Of not
less than one hundred dollars, and imprisoned i'll
the county Jail not less than sixty days, for each
and every offence. And the clerk OF the circuit
court shall draw from the box a greater number
of names than is required by the court, in accord
ance with the provisions of this act, shall put
in said box any name after the same has been de-
liyercd to him aforesaid, or shall be guilty of
any fraud or cousiou in respect to the drawing
of jurors, he shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor and shall be punished by fine of not
less than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned
III the county Jail not less than sixty days. for each
and every offence.


SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That if any
person selected juror and duly notified to
attend according to the requirements of this act,
shall, without sufficient cause, neglect to attend
agreeably to such notice, he shall be fined by the
court in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for
every day he shall be absent during the sitting of
said court.


SEC. IL. And be it further enacted, That the
names the lists specified i'll the second section
Of this act shall be selected, as near as may be,
from among the citizens of the several wards of
the cities of Washington 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 taxable in
habitants residing in said wards and districts,
respectively.


Approved, June 16, 1862.


CHAP CX.


An Act making Appropriations for Postal Service


on Post Routes established at the present Ses-


sion of Congress.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
of thp ITnitaJ StateS of in