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Show 422 Acrs RELATING Part UK Sect. V11. the clerk of the court ; and out of the per- quifites of the court they had a falary of three or four {billings a day *. " This method lay open to manage" ment;" to at leal't we learn from a great law officer of the province: " who- TO THE Commas. 423 are given about making out the lills of perfons qua/yin! to ferve on juries ; but as to the qualification itfelf, the a8: is totally filenti About the time ofifliuing the fummons forjurors ;‘_":about the manner of {up- plying the want ofjurors, where a fulfi- " ever pleafcs (lays he) nominates them cient number do not appear, or having ap- " at our town-meetings." peared, are reduced to an infuflicient num- As a proof how very open they lay to manage‘ ber, by challenges, or otherwife; about the ment, he adds, " that by this means one mode of afcertaining the number, and of drawing the names of jurors, the act is full and particular: and appears to be liable to no objection.- Not {0 with refpeét to the rifle?" who is to fumnion the jurors. They are to be fummoned by the j'ji- Names are powerful things. --~ Nine tenths of the " who was fuppofed to be a principal in " the riots of the 10th of june (preceding " his letter) was upon thatjury, whofe bu; " finefs it was to enquireinto them T. That an inflitution, which was not only {0 liable to 41521 [7, but had actually been thus aézgfld, called for reformation, will, Ifuppofe, be readily allowed. i To CH2}! world are governed by them. blifh that reformation is a bulinefs of a a€t provided for the t‘ul‘lieiency and in- (large part of this a&. Particular direétions '5 See Appendix to Neale's Hillory of New lingland, vol. ii. No. 4.. Article Juries. f See Hutchinfon and Oliver's letters, p. 31. Had the dependence of the (ilicer, who is to fummon juries, it would have been a matter of prudence, and allowable policy, to call him aflwri '; but was it allowable to give this name to a needy dependent, liable to are V Ec4 be |