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prietor or Proprietors thereof respectively, he or they paying for or in lieu of Salvage a Sum of Money equal to One eighth Part of the true Value of such Ship, Vessel, Boat, Goods, Merchandize and other Property respectively; which Money shall be paid to Distribution of and divided and distributed amongst such Persons, and in such Money. Manner, Form and Proportion, as shall by any Proclamation or Order of His Majesty in Council be directed for the Distribution of the Produce of any Ship, Vessel, Boat, Goods or other Property of Pirates.

Deserters not entitled to Bounty, &c.

Their Shares

paid to Greenwich Hospital.

Agents for Sale of Ships, &c.

to register their Letters of Attorney.

Penalties for

not registering, as by 45 G.3. c.72.

Age and Qua

lification of

Jurors in Eng

land in Superior Courts, Assizes and

IV. And be it further enacted, That no Person or Persons who shall desert from any of His Majesty's Ships or hired armed Vessels, or otherwise from His Majesty's Service, shall be entitled to receive any Proportion of Bounty Money, Salvage or other Monies payable by virtue of this Act; but that the Shares of all such Persons, as well as all other Shares which shall not be legally demanded within the Times prescribed by the said Act of the Forty fifth Year of His late Majesty's Reign for the Demand of Prize Money, shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, within such Times, in such Manner, and to and for such Uses and Purposes, and subject to such Provisions, Regulations and Exceptions, as in the said Act is mentioned with respect to Prize Money.

V. And be it further enacted, That all and every Person and Persons who shall be so nominated and appointed Agent or Agents as aforesaid, for the Appraisement and Sale of any piratical Ships, Vessels or Boats taken by any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels, or hired armed Ships, or for the Distribution of the Bounty Money by this Act given, shall exhibit and cause to be registered their Letter or Letters of Attorney in the respective Courts wherein the Proceedings touching the Vessels so taken, or touching such Bounty or Salvage, shall be had; and all such Agents shall be subject to such Forfeitures and Disqualifications for not registering the same as in and by the said Act of the Forty fifth of His late Majesty's Reign are enacted and provided.

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W

CA P. L.

An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relative to
Jurors and Juries.
[22d June 1825.]
HEREAS the Laws relative to the Qualification and sum-
moning of Jurors, and the Formation of Juries in England
and Vales, are very numerous and complicated, and it is ex-
pedient to consolidate and simplify the same, and to increase
the Number of Persons qualified to serve on Juries, and to alter
the Mode of striking Special Juries, and in some other respects
to amend the said Laws;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's
most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That
every Man, except as hereinafter excepted, between the Ages of
Twenty one Years and Sixty Years, residing in any County in
England, who shall have in his own Name or in Trust for him,
within the same County, Ten Pounds by the Year above Reprizes
in Lands or Tenements, whether of Freehold, Copyhold or Cus-

tomary

.

c. 38.

(See 13 Ed. 1.
27 Eliz. c.6.
4 & 5 W. & M.
c.25. § 15.

3 G.2. e.25.
§ 18.)

tomary Tenure, or of Ancient Demesne, or in Rents issuing out of Sessions of any such Lands or Tenements, or in such Lands, Tenements the Peace. and Rents taken together, in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for the Life of himself or some other Person, or who shall have within the same County Twenty Pounds by the Year above Reprizes, in Lands or Tenements, held by Lease or Leases for the absolute Term of Twenty one Years, or some longer Term, or for any Term of Years determinable on any Life or Lives, or who being a Householder shall be rated or assessed to the Poor Rate, or to the Inhabited House Duty in the County of Middlesex, on a Value of not less than Thirty Pounds, or in any other County on a Value of not less than Twenty Pounds, or who shall occupy a House containing not less than Fifteen Windows, shall be qualified and shall be liable to serve on Juries for the Trial of all Issues joined in any of the King's Courts of Record at Westminster, and in the Superior Courts, both Civil and Criminal, of the Three Counties Palatine, and in all Courts of Assize, Nisi Prius, Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, such Issues being respectively triable in the County in which every Man so qualified respectively shall reside, and shall also be qualified and liable to serve on Grand Juries in Courts of Sessions of the Peace and on Petty Juries, for the Trial of all Issues joined in such Courts of Sessions of the Peace, and triable in the County, Riding or Division in which every Man so qualified respectively shall reside; and that every Man (except as herein. after excepted) being between the aforesaid ages, residing in any County in Wales, and being there qualified to the Extent of Three fifths of any of the foregoing Qualifications, shall be qualified and shall be liable to serve on Juries for the Trial of all Issues joined in the Courts of Great Sessions, and on Grand Juries in Courts of Sessions of the Peace, and on Petty Juries for the Trial of all Issues joined in such Courts of Sessions of the Peace, in every County of Wales, in which every Man so qualified as last aforesaid respectively shall reside.

Age and
Qualification

in Wales.
See 4 & 5 W. &

M. c.25. § 15.)

on Juries.

$8.

52 G.3. c.155.

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II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That all Peers; Exemptions all Judges of the King's Courts of Record at Westminster, and of from serving the Courts of Great Session in Wales; all Clergymen in Holy - (See 1 W. & M. Orders; all Priests of the Roman Catholic Faith who shall have c.18. $11. duly taken and subscribed the Oaths and Declarations required 19 G.3. c.44. by Law; all Persons who shall teach or preach in any Congre- 31 G.3. c.32. gation of Protestant Dissenters, whose Place of Meeting is duly registered, and who shall follow no secular Occupation except that of a Schoolmaster, producing a Certificate of some Justice of the Peace of their having taken the Oaths, and subscribed the Declaration required by Law; all Serjeants and Barristers at Law actually practising; all Members of the Society of Doctors of Law, and Advocates of the Civil Law, actually practising; all Attornies, Solicitors and Proctors duly admitted in any Court of Law or Equity, or of Ecclesiastical or Admiralty Jurisdiction, in which Attornies, Solicitors and Proctors have usually beer admitted actually practising, and having duly taken out their Annual Certificates; all Officers of any such Courts actually exercising the Duties of their respective Offices; all Coroners, Gaolers and Keepers of Houses of Correction; all Members and

(See 5 H.8.c.6.

18 G.2. c.15.

$ 10.)
(See 6 & 7

W. & M. c.4.)
55 G.S. c.194.

Proviso.

Aliens disqualified except on Juries de medietate.

Convicts (Exception) Outlaws, &c. disqualified.

Clerk of the Peace to issue Warrants to High Constables. (See 3 & 4 Anne, c. 18. § 5.

3 G. 2. c.25.)

Clerk of the

Peace to annex printed Forms of Precepts, &c.

Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians in London actually practising; all Surgeons being Members of One of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in London, Edinburgh or Dublin, and actually practising; all Apothecaries certificated by the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries Company, and actually practising; all Officers in His Majesty's Navy or Army on Full Pay; all Pilots licensed by the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, Kingston upon Hull or Newcastle upon Tyne, and all Masters of Vessels in the Buoy and Light Service employed by either of those Corporations, and all Pilots licensed by the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, or under any Act of Parliament or Charter for the Regulation of Pilots in any other Port; all the Household Servants of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors; all Officers of Customs and Excise; all Sheriff's Officers, High Constables and Parish Clerks, shall be and are hereby absolutely freed and exempted from being returned, and from serving upon any Juries or Inquests whatsoever, and shall not be inserted in the Lists to be prepared by virtue of this Act as hereinafter mentioned: Provided also, that all Persons exempt from serving upon Juries in any of the Courts aforesaid, by virtue of any Prescription, Charter, Grant or Writ, shall continue to have and enjoy such Exemption in as ample a Manner as before the passing of this Act, and shall not be inserted in the Lists hereinafter mentioned.

III. Provided also, and be it enacted and declared, That no Man, not being a natural born Subject of the King, is or shall be qualified to serve on Juries or Inquests, except only in the Cases hereinafter expressly provided for; and no Man who hath been or shall be attainted of any Treason or Felony, or convicted of any Crime that is infamous, unless he shall have obtained a free Pardon, nor any Man who is under Outlawry or Excommunication, is or shall be qualified to serve on Juries or Inquests in any Court, or on any Occasion whatsoever.

IV. And be it further, enacted, That the Clerk of the Peace in every County, Riding and Division in England and Wales, shall, within the First Week of July in every Year, issue and deliver his Warrant (in the Form set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed, or as near thereto as may be) to the High Constables of each Hundred, Lathe, Wapentake or other like District, by which he shall command them to issue forth their Precepts to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the several Parishes, and to the Overseers of the Poor of the several Townships within their respective Constablewicks, requiring them to prepare and make out, before the First Day of September then next ensuing, a true List of all Men residing within their respective Parishes and Townships, qualified and liable to serve on Juries according to this Act as aforesaid, and also to perform and comply with all other the Requisitions in the said Precepts contained.

V. And be it further enacted, That every such Clerk of the Peace shall cause a sufficient Number of Warrants, Precepts and Returns to be printed, according to the several Forms set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed, at the Expence of the County, Riding or Division, and shall annex to every Warrant a competent Number of Precepts and Returns, for the Use of the re

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spective

spective Persons by whom such Precepts are to be issued and such Returns to be made.

Precepts to

Churchwardens, &c. to

make out Jury

Lists.

Where there are several High Constables,

each responsible throughout the whole Hundred.

VI. And be it further enacted, That within Fourteen Days High Constaafter the Receipt of such Warrant of the Clerk of the Peace, bles to issue every High Constable shall issue and deliver his Precept (in the Form set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed, or as near thereto as may be), together with a Competent Number of the printed Forms of Returns, to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the several Parishes, and to the Overseers of the Poor of the several Townships within his Constablewick, requiring them by such Precept to prepare and make out a true List of all Men residing within their respective Parishes and Townships, qualified and liable to serve as Jurors as aforesaid, and to perform and comply with all the Requisitions in the said Precept contained: Provided always, that where in any Hundred, Lathe, Wapentake or other like District, there shall be more than One High Constable, in such Case the Clerk of the Peace shall issue and deliver his Warrant, together with a competent Number of the Precepts and Returns as aforesaid, to every One of such High Constables, each of whom shall be individually liable for the due Performance of the several Matters commanded in such Warrant throughout the whole of such Hundred, Lathe, Wapentake or other like District, and shall for the Nonperformance thereof be subject to all and every the Penalties by this Act imposed upon any High Constable: Provided also, that where in Proviso, where any Parish there shall be no Overseers of the Poor, other than no Overseers. the Churchwardens, such Churchwardens shall be deemed and taken to be the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of such Parish within the Meaning of this Act, to all Intents and Purposes: Provided also, that where any Parish or Township shall extend into more than one Hundred, Lathe, Wapentake or other like District, either in the same or different Counties, such Parish or Township shall be deemed and taken, for all the Purposes of this Act, to be within that Hundred, Lathe, Wapentake or other like District, in which the principal Church of such Parish or Township shall be situate.

VII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace of any Division in England or Wales, at a Special Petty Sessions to be holden for that Purpose before the First Day of July in any Year, to make an Order for annexing any Extraparochial Place, whenever they shall think it expedient, to any Parish or Township adjoining thereto, for the Purposes of this Act, and a Copy of such Order shall, within Five Days from the making thereof, be served upon the Churchwardens and Overseers of such adjoining Parish, or upon the Overseers of such adjoining Township, and such Extraparochial Place shall from thence continually be deemed and taken, for all the Purposes of this Act, to be within and to form an integral Part of such Parish or Township; and the Churchwardens and Overseers of such Parish, and the Overseers of such Township, shall be, and they are hereby respectively authorized and required to make out, according to this Act, a true List of all Men qualified and liable to serve on Juries as aforesaid, residing as well in their own respective Parish or Township as in the Extraparochial

Place

Parishes, &c. extending into more than One Hundred, treated as where Parish Church is.

Justices of Division may order any Extraparochial Place to be annexed to any adjoining Parish or Township, for

the Purposes of this Act.

Churchwardens, &c. to

make out Lists

of Persons qualified to

serve. (See 3 & 4 Anne, c. 18. $5.)

Lists to be fixed on Church

kept by Churchwardens for Inspection.

Place thereto annexed, and shall from time to time perform and execute within such Extraparochial Place, for the Purposes of this Act, but for no other Purpose, all and every the same Acts, Duties, Powers and Authorities, as in their own respective Parish or Township, and shall be as fully liable to the same Penalties for the Nonperformance thereof within such Extraparochial Place, as if they had in every Instance been mentioned in this Act with reference to such Extraparochial Place.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That the Churchwardens and Overseers of every Parish, and the Overseers of every Township, within the Meaning of this Act, shall forthwith, after the Receipt of such Precept from the High Constable, prepare and make out in Alphabetical Order a true List of every Man residing within their respective Parishes or Townships, who shall be qualified and liable to serve on Juries as aforesaid, with the Christian and Surname written at full Length, and with the true Place of Abode, the Title, Quality, Calling or Business, and the Nature of the Qualification of every such Man, in the proper Columns of the Form of Return set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

IX. And be it further enacted, That the Churchwardens and Overseers of each Parish, and the Overseers of each Township, Doors, and also having made out according to this Act a List of every Man qualified and liableto serve on Juries as aforesaid, shall, on the Three First Sundays in the Month of September, fix a true Copy of such List upon the principal Door of every Church, Chapel and other public Place of Religious Worship within their respective Parishes or Townships, having first subjoined to every such Copy a Notice, stating that all Objections to the List will be heard by the Justices of the Peace at a Time and Place to be mentioned in such Notice, and having also signed their Names at the Foot of such Copy, and shall likewise keep the Original List, or a true Copy thereof, to be perused by any of the Inhabitants of their respective Parishes or Townships, at any reasonable Time during the Three first Weeks of the Month of September, without any Fee or Reward, to the End that Notice may be given of Men qualified who are omitted, or of Men inserted who ought to be omitted out of such List; and the Churchwardens and Overseers of each Parish, and the Overseers of each Township, are hereby authorized to cause a sufficient Number of Copies of such Lists, for the Purposes aforesaid, to be printed at the Expence of their respective Parishes or Townships.

No Fee.

Copies printed at Expence of Parishes.

Petty Sessions held last Week of September.

Lists to be there produced, considered, reformed, and

X. And be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Peace in every Division in England and Wales shall hold a Special Petty Sessions for the Purposes herein mentioned, within the last Seven Days of September in every Year, on some Day and at some Place, of which Notice shall be given by their Clerk, before the Twentieth Day of August next preceding, to the High Constable and to the Churchwardens and Overseers of every Parish, and to the Overseers of every Township, within such Division; and the Churchwardens and Overseers of each Parish, and the Overseers of each Township, shall then and there produce the List of Men qualified and liable to serve on Juries as aforesaid within their respective Parishes or Townships, by them prepared

and

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