By § 5. the sheriff, undersheriff, or other officer to whom the return of
juries shall belong, shall from time to time enter or register in a book
to be kept for that purpose, the names of such persons as shall be
summoned, and shall serve as jurors on trials at any assizes or _nisi
prius_; or in the said courts of great sessions or sessions for the
counties palatine, together with their additions and places of abode
alphabetically, and also the times of their services; and every person so
summoned, and attending or serving as aforesaid, shall (upon application
by him made to such sheriff, undersheriff or other officer) have a
certificate testifying such his attendance or service done, which
certificate the said sheriff, _&c._ is to give without fee or reward; and
the said book shall be transmitted by such sheriff, _&c._ to his
successor from time to time.
By § 6. no sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff or other officer or person
whatsoever shall directly or indirectly take or receive any money or
other reward to excuse any person from serving or being summoned to serve
on juries; and no bailiff or other officer appointed by any sheriff or
undersheriff to summon juries, shall summon any person to serve thereon
other than such whose name is specifyed in a mandate signed by such
sheriff or undersheriff, and directed to such bailiff or other officer.
By § 8. every sheriff or other officer to whom the return of the _Venire
facias juratores_, or other process for the trial of causes before
justices of assize or _nisi prius_ in any county in England shall belong,
shall, upon his return of every such writ of _Venire facias_ (unless in
causes to be tried at bar, or in case where a special jury shall be
struck by order or rule of court) annex a panel to the said writ,
containing the christian [names] and surnames, additions and places of
abode of a competent number of jurors named in such lists as qualified to
serve on juries, the names of the same persons to be inserted in the
panel annexed to every _venire facias_, for the trial of all issues at
the same assizes in each county; which number of jurors shall not be less
than 48 in any county, nor more than 72, without direction of the judges
appointed to go the circuit and sit as judges of assize or _nisi prius_
in such county, or one of them.
By § 18. any person or persons having an estate in possession in land, in
their own right, of the yearly value of 20l. or upwards, over and above
the reserved rent payable thereout, such lands being held by lease or
leases for the absolute term of 500 years or more, or for 99 years or any
other term determinable on one or more life or lives, the names of such
persons shall be inserted in the respective lists as aforesaid, in order
to their being inserted in the freeholders book[47].
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