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be excused.

2. A person holding a county office;

3. An attorney and counselor at law;

4. A minister of the gospel or a priest of any denomination;

5. A teacher in a college, academy, or school;

6. A practicing physician;

7. An officer, keeper, or attendant of an almshouse, hospital, asylum, or other charitable institution;

8. Engaged in the performance of duty as officer or attendant of a County Jail or the State Prison;

9. Employed on board of a vessel navigating the waters of this State;

10. An express agent, mail carrier, telegraph operator, or keeper of a public ferry or toll gate;

11. An active member of the fire department of any city, town, or village in this State, or an exempt member by reason of five years active service;

12. A superintendent, engineer, or conductor on a railroad.

201. A juror cannot be excused by the Court for Who may 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, requires his absence.

ARTICLE III.

MANNER OF SELECTING AND RETURNING JURORS FOR COURTS OF

RECORD.

SECTION 204. List of persons to serve as jurors to be made by Super

visors.

205. How selection shall be made.

206. List to contain one name for every hundred inhabitants.

SECTION 207. Person who served as juror during preceding year not

to be selected.

208. List to be placed with Clerk.

209. Duty of Clerk on receiving lists.

210. Regular jurors to serve one year.

204. The Board of Supervisors of each county must, at their first regular meeting in each year, or at any other meeting if neglected at the first, make a list of persons to serve as jurors in Courts of record for the ensuing year.

205. They must proceed to select and list from those assessed on the assessment roll of the previous year, suitable persons, competent to serve as jurors; and in making such selection, they must take the names of such only as are not exempt from serving, who are in possession of their natural faculties, and not infirm or decrepit, of fair character, of approved integrity, and of sound judgment.

206. Such lists must contain not less than one for every hundred inhabitants of each township or ward, having regard to the population of the county, so that the whole number of jurors selected in the county shall amount, at least, to one hundred, and not exceed one thousand.

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207. In making such selection, the Board must not select any of the same persons who actually served as jurors at any term of Court during the preceding to be year; and if such persons are drawn and returned to serve as trial jurors, it will be the duty of the Court to strike the names of such persons from the list of jurors, and direct the Sheriff to fill up the list from among the neighboring citizens competent to serve as jurors; and in counties having ten thousand or more inhabitants, it shall be a good cause of challenge that any trial juror, whether on the regular panel or taken from among the bystanders, has served as a trial juror

List to be placed with Clerk.

Duty of

Clerk on receiving lists.

Regular jurors to

serve

one year.

at any time within the year next preceding the making of the list of persons to serve as jurors as hereinbefore provided.

208. Certified lists of the persons selected to serve as jurors must at once be placed in the possession of the County Clerk.

209. On receiving such lists, the Clerk must file the same in his office, and write down the names contained therein on separate pieces of paper, of the same size and appearance, and fold each pięce so as to conceal the name thereon, and deposit them in a box to be called the "jury box."

210. The persons whose names are so returned are known as regular jurors, and must serve for one year, and until other persons are selected and returned.

Jury to be drawn upon the

order of the Judge.

ARTICLE IV.

TIME AND MANNER OF DRAWING JURORS FOR COURTS OF RECORD.

SECTION 214. Jury to be drawn upon the order of the Judge.

215. Clerk to notify County Judge and Sheriff of time of drawing.

216. Sheriff and Judge to witness drawing.

217. Drawing, when to be adjourned.

218. Shall proceed, when.

219. Drawing, how conducted.

220. After adjournment of Court, disposition to be made of

ballots.

221. Copy of list to be furnished by Clerk.

214. Not less than ten nor more than thirty days before the commencement of any term of Court, the Judge thereof, if a jury will be required therefor, must make and file with the County Clerk an order that one be drawn. The number to be drawn must be fixed in the order; if to form a Grand Jury, it must be twentyfour, and if a trial jury, such number as the Judge may direct.

215. At least one day before the drawing, the Clerk must notify the Sheriff and County 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.

216. At the time so appointed, the Sheriff, in person or by deputy, and the County Judge, must attend at the County Clerk's office to witness such drawing, and if they do so, the Clerk must, in their presence, proceed to draw the jurors.

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217. If the officers so notified do not appear, the Clerk 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. 218. If, at the adjourned day, the Sheriff, County Shall proJudge, and electors, or any two of such persons, appear, the Clerk must in their presence proceed to draw the jurors.

ceed, when.

how

219. The Clerk must conduct such drawing as Drawing. follows:

1. He must shake the box containing the names of jurors returned to him, from which 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 as many such slips of paper as are ordered by the Judge;

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

conducted.

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After adjournment of Court, disposition

of ballots.

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 jurors required are drawn;

7. The minute of the drawing must then be signed by the Clerk and the attending officers or persons, and filed in the Clerk's office;

8. Separate lists of the names of the persons so drawn for trial jurors, and of those drawn for grand jurors, with their places of residence, and specifying for what Court they were drawn, must be made and certified by the Clerk and the attending officers or persons, and delivered to the Sheriff of the county.

220. After the adjournment of any Court at which jurors have been returned, as herein provided, the to be made Clerk must inclose the ballots containing the names of those who attended and served as jurors in an envelop, under seal, and the ballots of those who did not attend and serve must be returned to the jury box The ballots sealed in envelops must not be returned to the jury box until all the ballots therein have been exhausted.

Copy of

list to be furnished by Clerk.

221. The County Clerk 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 Court.

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