Consolidation and Amendment of the Jury Law. 
Of thé ‘sessions ‘transmit the same to’ the 
‘Shetiff to resister; and ‘he is to give, on ap- 
plication of every person who has so duly 
iSetVed, a certificate’ testifying the same. 
bonefpe 42d Clause provides, ‘that no per- 
\Kort shall be ‘rettirtied* asa juror to serve 
“ating session ‘of nisi pritis’ or of gaol de- 
“ivery in the’ county of Middlesex, who has 
‘gérved ‘aS @ juror at either of such sessions im 
‘he sai County;iin’ either of the two terms 
‘or vacations next “immediately preceding, 
and has ‘the sheriff’s” certificate of haying 
‘$6 séeved' ; ‘and no'person shall be returned 
as"a juror to ‘serve on ‘trials, before any 
court of assize, nisi prius, oyer and termi- 
‘nery Or gaol delivery, or any of the superior 
éourts in the counties palatine, or the courts 
‘of great sessions in Wales, or who has served 
‘as a juror at any of such courts within one 
year, or in the counties of Hereford, Cam- 
‘bridge, Huntingdon, or Rutland, or four 
years before in the county of York, or two 
years before in any other county, and has 
‘the sheriff’s certificate of such service ; and 
no person shall be returned to serve on any 
grand or petty jury at any session of the 
peace in England or Wales, who has served 
asa juror at any such session within one 
year before in Wales, or in the counties of 
Hereford, Cambridge, Huntingdon, or Rut- 
larid} or ‘two years before in any other 
county,’and has the certificate ofthe clerk of 
the peace of ‘such service : and if sheriffs or 
other ministers transgtess in any of the 
eases aforesaid, they are fineable. But these 
provisions do not extend to grand jurors at 
the’assizes or great sessions, or to special 
jurors. f ~ 
Sheriffs, coroners, bailiffs, or other offi- 
‘eéis taking money or reward to excuse 
persons from serving ; or if bailiffs or other 
‘officers summon any person except those 
mentioned in the warrant or mandate ; or 
if sheviffs, bailiffs, or other officers summon 
‘ny juror less than ten days before the day 
‘On’ which he is to attend, or any special juror 
less tlian three days before his attendaice, 
éxcept'in the cases hereinbefore excepted ; 
for“every wilful transgression, he is finc- 
Jablée*at the discretion of the court, sect. 
43, And if high’ constables, for fourteen 
day after’ the! warrant of the clerk ‘of the 
peace has been served on him, or Jeft at his 
Nisaalplave’ 6f abode; tefuse or neglect to 
FSuetind deliver Wis precept ds is required 
iby this'act; or to"annex ‘thereto thé sufficient 
number of forms 6f return, or déliver within 
4irée days any additional number as the 
thurchwarder or ‘overseers’ inay demand of 
Him; or’shall réfuse “Or neglect any petty 
-SessiOnS Or Adjotirniment thereof, or to receive 
Me Vist oF lists ’ teridered bythe justices, or to 
eliver the sithe’'to “the next quarter ‘ses. 
won; Tor every wilfil’ offence they forfeit 
alsamifrom 16/0743. at the “didcretion of 
ahem 1 Wefore “Whom they are con- 
Wictedi 4 See! 44) qoriagor 2st yiiog, 1 
TONE Churehwardens' dr d¥erseers ‘refuse “or 
Neglect,’ Unless’ prevented by sickness, to 
¢ 
533 
on due notice refuse or neglect to produce © 
the list at the petty sessions, or any adjourn- 
ment thereof ; or shall refuse or allow the 
petty sessions or any justice of the peace on 
request to inspect or make extracts from the 
poor-rate, for every such wilful neglect’ or 
refusal_they forfeit any sum from 101, to 
40s. And the justice before whom’ ‘they 
shall be convicted of a wrongful insertion’ or 
omission is forthwith to certify the same to 
the clerk of the peace, who is to correct the 
list accordingly, and give the sheriff notice 
thereof, that he may correct the jurors’ book 
inlike manner. Sec.45. _ ¢ phe 
The 46th clause prescribes the penalty of 
50l. for every omission or ieee of duty by 
clerks of the peace, clerks of petty sessions, 
and sheriffs or under-sheriffs in furtherance 
of this act. By the 47th clause’ alien 
jurors are exempted from challenge for 
‘want of freehold or of any other qualifica- 
tion required by this act. The 48th enacts 
tliat justices of the peace are not to be sum- 
moned or impanelled as jurors atany sessions 
of the peace for the jurisdiction for’ which 
they are justices. And the 49th exempts the 
inhabitants of the city and liberty of West- 
minster from serving on any jury at the 
Middlesex sessions. Wt ¢ 
The 50th clause provides that the qualifi- 
cations hereinbefore required for jurors, and 
the regulations for procuring lists of per- 
sons liable to serve on juries, shall not ex- 
tend to the jurors or juries in any liberties, 
franchises, cities, boroughs, or towns cor- 
porate not being counties, or in any cities, 
boroughs, or towns being counties of them - 
selves, but that in all such places the panels 
shall be prepared as heretofore, provided 
that no person shell be impanelled or re- 
turned by the sheriffs of London, as a juror, 
to try any issue in the courts of record at 
Westminster, or to serve on any jury at the 
sessions of oyer and terminer, ga i deliyery, 
or sessions of the peace, to be. held for the 
said city, who shall not, be a honsrhalits, or 
the occupier ofa shop, ware louse, counLNg- 
house, chambers, or office, for. the pur of 
trade or commerce fe nS Pa and 
‘have Iands, tenements, or, personal estate of 
the value of 100/.; and that the lists of 
qualified 
