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SEC. 11. A person shall be exempt from liability to act as a Juror if he be:

First. A judicial officer.

Second. Any other civil officer of this Territery or of the United States whose duties are at the time inconsistent with his attendance as a Juror.

Third. An attorney or counselor.

Fourth. A minister of the gospel or a priest of any denomination.

Fifth. A teacher in a college, academy or school.

Sixth. A practicing physician.

Seventh. An officer, keeeper or attendant of an alms-house, hospital, asylum or other charitable institution created by or under the laws of this Territory.

Eighth. Any person engaged in the performance of duty as officer, keeper, or attendant of any County jail, or of the Territorial prison.

Ninth. A captain, master or other officer, or any person employed on board of a steamer, vessel or boat, navigating the waters of this Territory, and keepers of public ferries.

SEC. 12. A juror shall not be excused by the court for slight or trivial cause, or for hardship or inconvenience to his business, but only when material injury or destruction to his property or that of the public intrusted to him is threatened, or when his own health or the sickness or death of a member of his family require his absence.

SEC. 13. Upon receiving and filing the certified copy of the list of persons qualified to serve as Jurors, the Clerk of the District Court shall immediately give written notice thereof to the Probate Judge and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of said County, and in said notice shall require them to attend at the Court-house of said County at a time to be specified in said notice, which said time shall not be less than three nor more than five days after the receipt of such notice by said officers, for the purpose of selecting the names of persons to serve as Grand and Trial Jurors. If there be no Court-house in the County, the notice shall also designate some public place at which said selection will be made. At the time and place designated the Clerk of the District Court or, in case of his absence, his deputy, the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and the Probate Judge, or, if only two attend such meeting, then any two of said officers shall proceed to select from the

list of persons qualified and liable to serve as Jurors, the names of fifty persons who shall have paid taxes on property, either real or personal, in said County in the preceding year, and for that purpose may require the County Recorder to attend their meeting with the tax-roll of the next preceding year.

SEC. 14. As the said names are selected, the Clerk of the District Court shall make a list thereof, and when it shall be completed, shall append thereto a certificate setting forth the time and place of such meeting; what officers were in attendance and took part therein; what proceedings were had, and that the names on said list are those selected by the said officers from which to draw Grand Jurors. Said certificate shall be signed by each of the officers present at and assisting in making such selection, and shall then be known as the Grand Jury list.

SEC. 15. The said officers shall next select from said list the names of one hundred other persons, and the Clerk of the District Court shall make a list thereof as the names are selected, and shall append them to a certificate in all respects similar to that prescribed by the preceding 'section of this act, except that it shall be therein stated that the names are those selected from which to draw Trial Jurors. Said certificate shall be signed by each of said officers, as in the preceding section, and shall then be known as the Trial Jury list. Both of said lists shall be forthwith filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, and the Probate Judge shall immediately thereafter give notice in writing to the Judge of the District Court of the said selections of names and filing of said lists.

SEO. 16. The persons whose names are so returned shall be known as regular Jurors, and must serve for one year and until other persons are selected and returned.

SEC. 17. Not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the time at which either a Grand or Trial Jury shall be required to be in attendance upon the District Court, the Judge thereof shall make and file with the Clerk of the District Court an order that the jury be drawn; the number to be drawn shall be fixed in the order; if to form a Grand Jury, it must be twenty-three, and, if a Trial Jury, such number as the Judge may direct, not exceeding fifty, and such order shall also state the time at which Jurors, Grand or Trial, shall be in attendance.

SEC. 18. At least one day before the drawing, the Clerk of the District Court must notify the Sheriff and the Probate Judge of the time when such drawing will take place, which time must not be more than three days after the receipt by him of the order for such drawing.

SEC. 19. At the time so appointed, the Sheriff in person or by[Deputy, and the Probate Judge must attend at the office of the Clerk of the District Court to witness such drawing, and if they do so, the Clerk must in their presence proceed to draw the jurors.

SEC. 20. If the officers so notified do not appear, the Clerk of the District Court must adjourn the drawing until the next day, and, by written notice, require two electors of the County to attend such drawing on the adjourned day.

SEC. 21. If at the adjourned day the Sheriff, Probate Judge and electors or any two of such persons appear, the Clerk of the District Court shall in their presence write down all the names contained in the Grand Jury list, on separate pieces of paper of the same size and appearance, and fold each piece so as to conceal the name thereon, and deposit them in a box to be prepared for that purpose, to be called the "Grand Jury Box;" and proceed to draw the Grand Jurors.

SEO. 22. The Clerk of the District Court must conduct such drawing as follows, if for a Grand Jury:

1. He must shake the box containing the names of Jurors selected from the list from which Grand Jurors are required to be drawn, so as to mix the slips of paper upon which such names were written, as much as possible.

2. He must then publicly draw out of the box twenty-three such slips of paper.

3. A minute of the drawing must be kept by one of the attending officers, in which must be entered the name contained on every slip of paper so drawn, before any other slip is drawn.

4. If after drawing the whole number required, the name of any person has been drawn who is dead or insane, or who has permanently removed from the County to the knowledge of the Clerk or any other attending officer, an entry of such fact must be made in the minute of the drawing, and the slip of paper containing such name must be destroyed.

5. Another name must then be drawn in place of that contained on the slip of paper so destroyed, which must in like manner be entered in the minutes of the drawing.

6. The same proceedings must be had as often as may be necessary, until the whole number of Grand Jurors required are drawn.

7. The minutes of the drawing must then be signed by the Clerk and the attending officers or persons, and filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court.

SEC. 23. If a Trial Jury be ordered, the names of the Jurors shall be drawn in the same manner, and the same proceedings shall be had in all respects as are herein prescribed for drawing Grand Jurors, except that the number of the names drawn shall be the same as the number of Jurors ordered by the Judge. Provided, that a separate box shall be provided for the purpose, which shall be known as the "Trial Jury Box."

SEC. 24. The minute of the drawing prescribed by subdivision three of section twenty-two of this act, must as soon as the drawing is completed, be filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, who shall on the same day deliver to the Sheriff of the County a list of such names with his certificate attached thereto, that the names thereon were duly drawn as Grand or Trial Jurors, as the case may be, stating the time and place at which such drawing was had and the officers or electors who were present at and taking part therein, and he shall also attach thereto and deliver to the said Sheriff a certified copy of the order for the Jury, Grand or Trial, as the case may be, and the same shall be the order and authority to the Sheriff to summon the said Jurors.

SEC. 25. After the adjournment of any District Court at which Jurors have been returned, as herein provided, the Clerk shall inclose the ballots containing the names of those who attended and served as Grand Jurors, in an envelope under seal, and in like manner shall inclose the ballots of those who attended and served as Trial Jurors in a separate envelope under seal, and the ballots of those whose names were drawn either as Grand or Trial Jurors but who did not attend and serve, must be returned to the "Grand Jury Box" or the "Trial Jury Box," as the case may be. The ballots sealed in envelopes must be returned to the respective jury boxes when all the others shall have been exhausted, and not until then.

SEO. 26. At the assembling of the proper officers for the first drawing of either Grand or Trial Jurors, in each year, all the ballots of Grand and Trial Jurors used during the preceding year must be destroyed in presence of said officers.

SEC. 27. The Clerk of the District Court must furnish any person applying therefor, and paying the fees allowed by law for the same, a copy of the list of Jurors drawn to attend any District Court.

SEC. 28. As soon as he receives the copy of the list of Grand Jurors and a copy of the order prescribed in section twentyfour of this act, the Sheriff shall summon the persons named therein to attend by giving personal notice to each, or by leaving a written notice at his place of residence, with some person of proper age, and shall return the list to the District Court at the opening thereof, specifying the names of those who were summoned and the manner in which each person was notified. Trial Jurors shall be summoned in the same manner as is herein provided for summoning Grand Jurors.

SEC. 29. Whenever jurors are not drawn and summoned in the manner hereinbefore prescribed to attend any District Court, or a sufficient number of jurors fail to appear, such court may, in its discretion, order a sufficient number to be forthwith drawn and summoned to attend such court, or it may, by an order entered on its minutes, direct the sheriff of the County forthwith to summon so many good and lawful men of his County to serve as Jurors as the case may require. And in either case such Jurors shall be summoned in the manner provided by the preceding section.

SEC. 30. When there not competent Jurors enough present to form a panel, the Court may direct the Sheriff or other proper officer to summon sufficient number of persons having the qualifications of Jurors, either Grand or Trial, as the case may be, to complete the panel from the body of the County and not from bystanders, and the Sheriff shall summon the number so ordered accordingly and return the names to the Court.

SEC. 31. When jurors are required in any Police, Justice's or Recorder's Court, they shall, upon the written order of the Judge or Justice thereof be summoned by the Sheriff, Constable, Marshal, or Policeman of the jurisdiction.

SEC. 32. Such jurors shall be summoned from the persons resident of the city, village, or precinct, competent to serve as Jurors, by notifying them orally that they are so summoned, and of the time and place at which their attendance is required.

SEC. 33. The officer summoning such jurors shall, at the time fixed in the order for their appearance, return it with a list of the persons summoned indorsed thereon.

SEC. 34. Juries of Inquest shall be summoned by the officer before whom the proceedings are had or upon his written order,

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