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1778-1779 Jury List |
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State of South Carolina AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY begun and holden at Charles Town on Monday the fourth day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine; and from thence continued by divers Adjournments to Saturday - the twentieth - day of February - in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine. AN ORDINANCE for appointing a new Jury List for the District of Ninety-six, and to empower and direct the Judges out of the same to draw a Grand and Petit Jury to serve at the next Court of General Sessions to be holden for the said District next after the passing of this Ordinance, and for other purposes therein mentioned. WHEREAS the Jury Lists hitherto made out for said District has been very imperfect, not more than one fifth part having ever been on the Jury List, of those by Law qualified to serve, rendering the service thereby unequal and burdensome on those whose Names were inserted therein, while at the same time many reputable and proper Persons who have been Settlers and Inhabitants in the said District, and others who have arrived at full age since the last Lists were made out, altogether excape doing any duty in that respect, and the Judges, from the Causes aforesaid, have been prevented, at the last holding of the Court in that District, to draw a Grand and Petit Jury for the next Court, as by Law they were required to do AND WHEREAS it would be extremely hurtful to the public, as well as to Individuals who have or may have Business depending at the said Court, to be delayed for want of a Jury to transact the necessary Business of the said Court on the day appointed by Law: For Remedy whereof, BE IT ORDAINED by the Honorable The Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina now met and sitting in General Assembly and by the Authority of the same, That the several Persons whose Names are inserted in the Schedule of List hereunto annexed, intitled "A List of Grand Jurymen" shall be drawn by Ballot, impannelled, summoned and obliged to serve on all Grand Juries at the Circuit Courts to be holden hereafter for the District of Ninety six. AND the several Persons whose Names are inserted in the schedule or List hereunto annexed, intitled "A List of Petit Jurymen" and Jurymen in Civil Causes," shall be drawn by Ballot, impannelled, summoned and obliged to serve on all Petit and other Junes and inquests what-soever, for the said District of Ninety-six: AND that the several Persons whose Names are inserted in a Schedule or List hereunto annexed intitled "A List of Special Jurymen" shall be summoned, returned and obliged to serve as Talesmen in all Cases where Tales are allowed by Law for the said District of Ninety-six. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as may be after the passing of the Ordinance, any one or more of the Judges of the Court of General "Sessions shall cause to be written on small pieces of paper, of an equal size and Bigness, the Names of all the Persons hereby appointed to serve as Juryman, and having first diligently compared them with the list or Schedule hereunto annexed, shall cause them to be put in a Box or Chest to be prepared for that purpose, with proper Divisions made therein, which shall be marked on the Cover, to demoninate to what Jury they belong, and any one, or more of the said Judges, out of the Persons appointed to serve on Juries as aforesaid, shall cause to be drawn a Grand and Petit Jury and Jury for Civil Causes, to serve at the next Court to be holden for the said District of Ninety-six, which drawing shall be at the Court Room in the State House in Charles Town on or before the first day of March next, between the hours of Ten in the Forenoon and two in the afternoon, by a child under the age of Ten years, agreeable to the usual practice of drawing Juries. AND BE IT FURTHER ORAINED by the Authority aforesaid, that the Juries so drawn shall be summoned, returned and inpannelled to serve at the said Court for the District of Ninety-six, to be holden on the twenty sixth day of April next, shall be held, reputed, taken and deemed in Law to all Intents and purpose whatsoever as competent and legal; AND all their Acts and Verdicts, of full force, validity and effect, as if the Jury had been drawn at the same time and place prescribed by any former Law, Rule, Usage or Practice of said Court, any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary thereof in any way notwithstandlng. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Authority aforesa that from and after the first drawing of the Jury in manner and form aforesaid, for holding the next Court at Ninety six, on the twenty six day of April next, the Jury thereafter from Time to Time, out of the ? hereby established, shall be drawn, summoned, returned and impannel agreeable to, and in manner and form, and at the Times and places direct and prescribed by the act called The Circuit Court Act, or any other ? force relative thereto, anything herein contained to the contrary ? withstanding, and shall be intitled to all Priviledges, and subject liable to all the Duties, Fines, Pains and Penaltiest which are allowed --njoined and inflicted by the Laws of this State, on Jurymen. AND WHERE AS the Court House at Camden was lately burnt, and the Judge or Judges ? what Circuit, cannot by Law hold the Courts for Camden District at any other places; BE IT THEREFORE ORDAINED by the authority aforesaid that the same Judge or Judges, until a Court House is built for the said District, shall and may hold the said Courts at such place or places in the. Town of Camden he or they shall think proper, and if at any time hereafter any other of the Court Houses in the several Districts of this State should be burned or destroyed, it shall and maybe lawful for the Judge or Judges going Circuit, to hold the Court for such District respectively, until a new Court House can be built, at any other House they may think proper, at or ? the place where the Court House for such District now stands. AND WHERE AS the Jury List for the District of Cheraws, hath, this same defect in the Jury Box, been so intermixed, that Juries cannot be regularly drawn or impannelled agreeable to Law; BE IT THEREFORE ORDAINED by the authorized aforesaid that the Judge or Judges who shall next go on the Northern Circuit is and are hereby authorized and required, from the Jury list estalished for the said District, by an act passed the twenty eighth day March last, to make and prepare a new Jury list, and distribute the same unto the different Divisions of the Jury Box aforesaid, from which List Juries for the said District shall in future be drawn. Ref: - S. C. Archives - MS Act 1779 - No. 1123 |
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