When to

cause survey

of his town.

9. Whenever the Supervisor of any town shall be to be made required by the Surveyor-General to cause a survey to be made of the bounds of his town, it shall be the duty of such Supervisor, within sixty days thereafter, to cause such survey to be made, and to transmit by mail or otherwise, a map and description thereof to the Surveyor-General. The expense of such survey and map shall be defrayed by the several towns, whose bounds, either wholly or in part, shall be described thereby; such expense to be apportioned by the board of Supervisors of the county.

Penalty for neglect.

Copies of entries.

Who exempt.

Canalofficers exempt from serving on Jury.

10. If any Supervisor shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties enjoined in the last preceding section, he shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars.

Duties of Town Clerk. 1 R. S., 350, Sec. 13.

The Town Clerk shall deliver to the Supervisor before the annual meeting of the Board of supervisors of the county, in each year certified copies of all entries of votes for raising money, made since the last meeting of the board of Supervisors and recorded in the town. book.

Jurors. 1 R. S., 631.

Every poor-house, alms-house, or other place provided by any city, town or county for the reception and support of the Poor and all real and personal property whatever, belonging to or connected with the same, shall be exempt from all assessment and taxation, levied either by the State or by any county, city town or village, and the keeper of every poor-house, alms-house, or other place provided as aforesaid, shall be exempt. from all service in the militia, from serving on Juries, and from all assessments for labor on the highways.

1 R. S., 721, Sec. 187.

Every collector of tolls, the clerks of such collector, not exceeding two, having the collector's certificate, that they are actually employed by him, and all superintendents of Repairs lock tenders inspectors of boats and weigh masters, shall be exempt from the perform-. ance of military duty and Jury service, while actually

OF THE RETURN AND SUMMONING OF JURORS.

engaged in their respective employments on the canals while the same are navigable.

1 R. S., 721, Sec. 20.

empt.

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Every alien who shall hold any real estate by virtue Aliens exof any of the foregoing provisions shall be subject to duties assessments taxes and burthens, as if he were a citizen of this State; but shall be incapable of voting at any election; or of being elected or appointed to any office, or of serving on any Jury.

exempt.

Every commissioned together with non-commission- Officers &c. ed officers, musicians and privates of uniformed companies, shall be exempt, during such time of service, from Jury duty, and shall be allowed two days' deducion from their assessment of highway labor, if so asessed.

ct of May 13, 1847, Amended by Act of December 15, 1847.

The Superintendent and Inspector, and each of their deputies and all persons employed in attendance upon any works for the manufacturing of coarse salt, shall be exempt from serving on juries, and from all military service except in cases of actual invasion or insurrection; and the commission or appointment in writing of any such officer or deputy, and the certificate of any owner or agent of any coarse salt manufactory, that any person is employed or engaged in attending upon such manufactory, shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.

Of the Return and Summoning of Jurors. 2 R.

S., 411.

cers who are

ry lists.

§ 12. The Supervisor, town clerk and assessors of the Town offseveral towns of this State, shall assemble on the first to make JuMonday of July next after this chapter shall commence and take effect as a law, at such place in their respective towns as shall be appointed by the Supervisor, or in his absence, or in case of a vacancy in his office by the town clerk, for the purpose of making a list of persons to serve as Jurors.

Who to be

selected as Jurors.

Property qualification in certain counties.

Lists of Jurors, where

§ 13. The said town officers, when so assembled, shall proceed to select from the names of those assessed, on the last assessment Rolls of the town, suitable persons to serve as Jurors; and in making such selection, they shall take the names of such only as are,

1. Male inhabitants of the town, not exempt from serving on juries.

2. Of the age of twenty-one years or upward, and under sixty years old.

3. Who are at the time assessed for personal property belonging to them in their own right, to the amount of two hundred and fifty dollars, or who shall have a freehold estate in real property in the county, belonging to them in their own right, or in the right of their wives, to the value of one hundred and fifty dollars.

4. In the possession of their natural faculties and not infirm or decrepit.

5. Free from all legal exceptions, of fair character, of approved integrity, of sound judgment and well informed.

§14. Every person residing in either of the counties. of Niagara, Erie, Chautauque, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Genesee, Orleans, Monroe, Livingston, Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence and Tompkins, who does not possess either of the qualifications specified in the third subdivision of the last Section, but is qualified in all other respects and who shall have been assessed on the last assessment Roll of the town for land in his possession which he holds under contract, for the purchase thereof, upon which improvements shall have been made to the value of one hundred and fifty dollars, and who shall own such improvements, shall be deemed qualified to serve as a juror; and the town officers authorized to select and return jurors may take the names of such persons.

§ 15. Duplicate lists of the persons so selected with to be filed. their additions and places of residence shall be made out and signed by the town officers so assembled, or the major part of them; and within ten days after the first Monday in July before mentioned, one of the said lists shall be transmitted to the county clerk; and the other of said lists shall be filed with the town clerk. 16 and 17 Sections omitted.

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every third

§ 18. On the first Monday of July in each third year New lists in after the first selection and return of Jurors as herein year. before directed, the Supervisor, town clerk and assessors, shall assemble at the place appointed by the Supervisor, or in case of his absence, or a vacancy in his office, by the town clerk, and shall make new duplicate lists of persons to serve as jurors for the then ensuing three years; and shall file such list with the town clerk and return a duplicate to the county clerk, as herein Proceedings. directed.

19. In making such selection the said town officers shall proceed as herein before directed in respect to the first selection of jurors.

Grand Jurors. 2 R. S., 720.

Lists of Grand Jurors.

§ 1. The Supervisors of the several counties of this State, except the city and county of New-York, at their annual meetings in each year, shall prepare a list of the names of three hundred persons to serve as grand jurors, at the Courts of Oyer and Terminer, and Courts of General Sessions, to be held in their respective counties, during the ensuing year and until new lists Lists in N.Y. shall be returned.

§ 2. The Mayor, recorder and aldermen of the city of New York shall meet on the second Monday of Ju-ly in each year, as a board of Supervisors of that city and county, and shall prepare a list of the names of six hundred persons to serve as grand jurors at the diffierent Courts of Oyer and Terminer, and General Sessions to be held in that city during the then ensuing Who is to be year, and until new lists shall be returned.

placed on

list.

§3. In preparing such lists, the said boards of Supervisors shall select such persons only as they know, or have good reason to believe are possessed of the qualifications by law required of persons to serve as jurors for the trial of issues of fact and are of approved integrity, fair character, sound judgment and well Who to be informed.

§ 4. Persons exempt by law from serving as jurors for the trial of issues of fact, shall not be placed on any list of grand jurors required by the preceding provisions.

omitted.

Contents of lists, &c.

§ 5. The lists so made out by the said boards of Supervisors shall contain the Christian and Surnames, at length, of the persons named therein, their respective places of residence and their several occupations; it shall be certified by the clerk of the board of Supervisors, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the Increasing county, within ten days after the first day of the meetjurors inN.Y. ing at which the same is herein directed to be made.— §. 6 omitted.

number of

If in other counties.

Duty of Supervisors.

§ 7. If the Circuit Judge of the first Circuit, the Mayor and Recorder of the city of New-York or any two of them, shall at any time be of the opinion that a greater number of persons than that herein required, should be returned to serve as grand jurors, they may by an order under their hands, direct such number to be increased; but such increase shall not exceed onehalf the number herein required to be selected for that city and county.

8. If the County Judges of any other county of this State or any three of them, shall at any time be of opinion that a greater number of persons than that herein required should be returned to serve as grand jurors in their county, they may by an order under their hands, direct such number to be increased, but such increase shall not exceed one-half the number herein required to be selected for such county.

§ 9. Upon any order which is authorized by the two last sections being served upon the board of Supervisors, they shall at their next annual meeting, increase the number of persons returned by them to serve as grand jurors pursuant to such order.

Each Supervisor usually furnishes the clerk of the board during the first ten days of its session with a list of the grand jurors required from his town, stating at the end of their names their occupation, the number of each town is appointed according to the population, in making out the list, those who were returned the preceding year ought to be omitted in the new list, if a sufficient number of competent jurors can be found without them.