Civil Government for Common Schools by Henry C. Northam
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page 39 of 97 (40%)
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A. The supervisors, town clerk, and assessors of the several towns
of the county make out a list of the names of those persons qualified, and the names in the several lists are written upon slips of paper of the same size and deposited in a box in the county clerk's office. Q. How is the grand jury list obtained? A. The supervisors apportion the number (three hundred,) among the several towns in the county in proportion to population. Each supervisor selects from his town the number to which it is entitled; and these several lists are written upon slips of paper as before and deposited in a box in the county clerk's office. Q. How frequently are the lists changed? A. The petit jury list is changed once in three years; the grand jury list every year. Q. When are these juries drawn? A. Not more than twenty, nor less than fourteen days before the sitting of the court for which they are drawn. Q. How many are drawn? A. Thirty-six petit and twenty-four grand jurors. Q. How is the jury for each individual case obtained? |
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