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1779 302 (1779)

handle is hein.ssl/sssc0102 and id is 1 raw text is: 3C A. A. D. 1779. N..1 242.. Tide. %t 0rbitance for. appointitni a ntru 3ftist Ltft for the Diftrid of 'Cheraws, and to empower-any one of the Judges out of the fame. to draw. a Grand, Petit, and Common Pleas Jury, to ferve at the-Courts of General Seflons :ind' Common' Pleas, next to. be holden for thefaid Dif/rid7i after the pafing of this. Ordinance, and for raj/ing the Fines for the Non-appearance o urors, and for other Purpofes'.therean mentoned., ... 1. 11. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. Obfolete. ordained. IX. Be it ordained, That. incafe any judge, theriff, or clerk of ary of the coxirts of juftice Penaltyonjudge in this State, thall hereafter neglea, or omitlto draw, or-caufe tobe drawn, proper jurors to theriff, or clerk, ferve at the faid courts, -according to the law or laws in fuch cafes made and. provided, they not drawing a and each of them.fhall.forfeit,the fum-.of.-foootcurrent money;. one half to the ue of tlie jur.. State,. and. the other to.the ufe of the informer; -to be recovered by-aaion of debti in ay of the courts of common.pleas in this State. X. And whereas jurors have of. late years greatly negleed to appear and ferve on juries, o by which public and private juftice hath been1frequently delayed; to remedy the fame: Be.it P .enalty-for -,ordained, That any j uryman who Thall be legally fUmmoned to appear, and aEE as luch, at any non-attendance of the courts of juflice in this State,.and fhall negle& or refufe to do the fame, every fuch ju- of jurors. ror, in lieu of the former fines, if a grandjuror, fhall forfeit the fum off5oo current money; and, if a petitjuror, or a juror funmoned to .appear anda&l at a court of common.pleas, ge- neral or fpecial, (hall forfeit the fum off2So like money, unlefs fuch perfon can thew a good and fufficient caufe, of excufeion oath, ras'hath been, ufual heretofore, to be proved to the fatisfaftion of any of the judges at the next fitting of the court, to be recovered and applied in the fame way and manner, that fines for non-attendance of jurors. have been heretofore re- covered and applied. 3f Augft, 1779. CHARLES PINC K NE.Y, Prefident of the Senate. T THOMAS FARR, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. D3. s. ~ rbMna e- for appoting al .U U furp E ift for r. . s the Dyirid1 of inety-Six, and.to .empower and direll the. Judges,) ile. out of the fame, to draw a Grand and .Petit Jury roferve at the- next Court of Geniral Sefions to be 'holdenfor the faid .Dirid, next after the pafingl of this Ordinance, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned. V. Whereas the court-houfe at Camden was lately burnt, and* the judge orjiidges going that circuit cannot by law hold the courts for. Camden diTiif at any other place: Be it there- fore ordained;.That the faid judge or-judges, until a court-houfe is built forthe laid'diftria, fhall and may hold the faid courts,. at fuch place or places in the town of Camden,.as he or they thall think proper and other.. 2oth February, 1779- C H A.R L.E S P I NC K NE Y,. Prefident of the Senate.. JOHN afATHEWS,. .. .. Speaker of the Iiciufe of Rep refe ntatives..

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