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of sessions of the peace, and on petty: juries 
for the trialsof all issues ifsuch ‘courts of 
sessionsof the «peace: in apes ouamiye in 
Wales “Seer le J 
‘Observation 1.° The dualifleation by estate 
toventitle a person: to: take upon him ‘the 
office'of juror has been various at: different 
periods: By the 13th Edw. Ii c¢. 3,\20s. 
peraniam’ was)the qualification requisite, 
increased by the 21st Taw. I. stat. 1, and 2d 
Hen. V. stat: 2, to: 40s. ;-by the 27th of 
Eliz.ic. 6, it'was enacted that a juror should 
possess afrechold property of the value of 
4i‘per unnum ; by the 16th and 17th of 
Chas, ‘II. chap. 3,/an act which had only 
three! years duration, ‘ 20/.. per ann. was re- 
quired: us a qualification ; by the 4th and 
5th) Wm. and Mary, it was ordained that 
thé qualification should be 10/. per annum, 
freehold or copyhold in England, and 61. in 
Wales: By the 3d Geo. IJ. chap. 25, per- 
soiis possessing a leasehold estate on a life 
or lives for ‘a term of 500 years, of the an- 
nual value of 207. over. and. above the re- 
served rent, were deemed qualified to serve. 
By the same act, persons were rendered 
qualified and liable to serve in the city of 
nate oF who possessed real or personal pro- 
of the value of 100/.. By the 4th Geo. 
p. ‘7, a leasehold, value 50/. per annum 
“ie the reserved rent, held for any term of 
years, was a sufficient qualification in the 
county of Middlesex. In cities and corpo- 
rations, 40/. personal property was, by the 
23d Hen. VIII., a sufficient. qualification. 
But these statutes, as well as so much of all 
statutes from the 48d Hen. III. to 5th Geo. 
IV. chap. 106 inclusive, as relates to jurors, 
arerepealed by the 62d section of the statute 
under review. 
Gbservation 2. Jurors impanelled in courts 
leet, not being affected by the recent sta- 
tute, it seems that all persons are liable to 
serve thereon without any regard to qualifi- 
cation by estate. —2 Hawk. P1.Cr. c.10, s.68. 
The second clause of the act specifies the 
persons to be exempted from. serving on 
juries, viz. peers ; all judges of the courts of 
record at Westminster, and of the courts of 
great session in Wales ; clergymen ; priests 
of the Roman Catholic faith who have taken 
aud subscribed the lawful oaths and declara- 
tions ; persons teaching or preaching in duly 
registered places of congregation of Protes- 
tant. dissenters, or who follow no secular 
occupation than that of a schoolmaster, pro- 
ducing @ magistate’s certificate of their 
haying taken and subscribed the lawful 
oaths and declarations ; practising serjeants 
and barristers at law ; practising members 
of the society of doctors at Jaw, and advo- 
cates of the civil law; practising attornies, 
solicitors, and proctors, duly admitted and 
certificated ; officers of the courts of law or 
equity, ar of ecclesiastical or admiralty juris- 
diction, actually exercising the duties of their 
respective offices ;. coroners, gaolers, and 
keepers. of | houses of correction ; practising 
members and licentiates of the London Col- 
Consolidation and Amendment of the Jury Law. 
lege of Physicians ; . practisio 
being members of, the, Re: pal Coleges of 
Surgeons in London; ‘Edinburgh. or .Dub- 
lin ; practising apothecaries, 
the Court of Examiners,of the "Apothecaries? 
Company ; officers in the age Xo 
full, pay; pilots licensed by »the,-Erinity. 
House of Deptford, Stroud, Kingston-upon- 
Hull, or Newcastle. peygere seg Yn 
in, the buoy: and light.service vby 
either of those corporations, ‘and. pilc li- 
censed.by the Lord Warden of the Ci ; 
Ports, or under, any act of, Parliament,or 
charter for the regulation of pilots.im any 
other port»; the King’s househald servants ; 
officers of customs. and excise’; sheriffs’. 
ofticers, high constables,'and sparish clerks ; 
and all persons exempt, . by. prescription, 
charter, grant, or writ,. from. serving on 
juries in any of the courts. ». 
The third clause disqualifies: aliens to 
serve on juries or inquests, except/on juries 
de medietate ; as also all. persons  attainted 
of treason, or felony, or convicted of any 
infamous crime, unless they have obtained a 
free pardon, and all persons under outlawry 
or excommunication. . 
The fourth clause requires the clerk of 
the peace of every county, riding, and 
division, to issue his warrant, within the 
first week of July in every year, to the high 
constable of each Hundred or other district, 
commanding them to issue their precepts to 
the churchwardens or overseers of the poor of 
the several parishes, and to the overseers of the 
poor of theseveral townships within their con - 
stablewicks, requiring them to prepare and 
make out, before the 1st of September then. 
next ensuing, a true list of all men qualified, 
aceording to this act, to serve on juries, and 
residing in their respective parishes and 
townships. And the fifth clause directs that 
the clerk of the peace is to annex to his 
warrant a competent number of printed 
forms of precepts and returns for the tse 
of the persons by whom the precepts are 
to be issued and the returns to bé made ;- 
and to charge the expense of printing the 
forms to the county. Where in any hun- 
dred, or other like district, there shall be 
more than one high constable, the sixth 
section of the act directs the clérk’ of the 
peace to deliver his warrant, preéepts and 
returns, to every one of such high constables ; 
and within fourteen days after the receipt 
of the warrant, the high constable iis, © 
sixth clause, to deliver the precept 
the 
there are several high cose 
hundred, &c. each is to be 
by this act throughout the iad f's 
dred, &c, _And where in any parish 
no overseers of the poor, other th 
churchwardens, such Pets Ds rd ens 8 
deemed and taken to be chirehwardens 
overseers of the poor of such” javish 
