sums opposite our respective names; and we further agree to conform to the By-laws and Rules of the said Association. H CHAPTER 12. An Act respecting the Registration of Deaths. [Assented to 11th March, 1879.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the as follows: made by min funeral unless 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in section fourteen of Return to be the Act respecting the registration of births, marriages, and ister, etc., deaths, being chapter thirty-six of the Revised Statutes, where officiating at any minister or other person has occasion to bury or perform any he has receiv funeral or religious service for the burial of any dead body ed certificate without having received the certificate of the Registrar of the of Registrar of Division in which the death took place that the particulars of such death have been duly registered, it shall be sufficient for such minister or other person (in lieu of the return by the said Deaths. section section required) to give to the registrar, within seven days after the burial, a written notice under the hand of such minister or other person, stating according to his knowledge, information and belief, the name and residence of the deceased, and the date and place at which the burial took place, or at which the service was performed, either without or with any of the other particulars mentioned in schedule C to the said Act. Number of Schedule B. of Jurors' Act amended. Time Act to take effect. HE CHAPTER 13. An Act respecting Grand Juries. [Assented to 11th March, 1879.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The precepts to the Sheriff for the return of Grand Jurors for the sittings of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, shall command the return of fifteen of such Grand Jurors and no more, and the panel of Grand Jurors for any of the aforesaid courts shall consist of fifteen Grand Jurors instead of twenty-four as heretofore. 2. The word "fifteen" shall be substituted for the words "twenty-four" wherever the latter words occur in Schedule B to the Jurors' Act. 3. This Act shall not come into force until a day to be named by the Lieutenant-Governor by his proclamation. S. 3 of Jurors' H CHAPTER 14. An Act to Amend the Jurors' Act. [ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The third section of the Jurors' Act, Chapter forty-eight of Act repealed. the Revised Statutes of Ontario, is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor : 3. Unless exempted, every person residing in any County or Qualification. other local Judicial division in Ontario, who is over the age of twenty-one years, and in the possession of his natural faculties, and not infirm or decrepid, and who is assessed as owner or tenant for local purposes upon property, real or personal, belonging to him in his own right, or in that of his wife, of the value of not less than six hundred dollars in Cities, and four hundred dollars in Towns, Incorporated Villages and Townships, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a Juror, both on Grand and Petit Juries, in Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Common Law having general Criminal or Civil jurisdiction throughout Ontario, and in all Courts of Civil or Criminal jurisdiction within the County or other local judicial division of the County in which he resides; 2. Provided nevertheless, that in Townships wherein the Exception in amount of property in respect of which a person would be qua- certain Tow:ships. lified and liable to serve as a juror if ascertained, under and in the manner provided by section six of the Jurors' Act, would be less than is by this section herein before prescribed in that behalf, the amount of property in respect of which a person shall be so qualified and liable to serve as a Juror shall in such Townships be ascertained and determined under and in the manuer provided by said section six, and except as to such townships the said section six shall not hereafter be in force. 2. Section eight of the said Act is hereby repealed, and the S. 8 of Juror' Act repealed, following section is substituted therefor: 8. Every member of the Senate and House of Commons and Exemptions of the Legislative Assembly of this Province, every Warden from serving. and every member of any County Council, every Mayor, Reeve, or Deputy Reeve of any city, town, township, or village, every Justice of the Peace and every other member and officer of any municipal corporation, is hereby absolutely freed and exempted from being selected by the selectors of jurors hereinafter mentioned to serve as a grand or petit juror in Her Majesty's Inferior Courts, and none of the names of any such persons shall be inserted in the rolls from which jurors are to be taken for such purposes, and if any such name be at any time accidentally inserted in any such roll, it shall, if drawn in selecting any jury list or drafting any panel therefrom for such Inferior Courts, be set aside and not inserted therein. 3. The senior Judge of the County Court, the junior Judge County selecthereof, the Mayor of any City situate in any such County, the tors. Warden, the Treasurer, the Sheriff, or in his absence the deputy Sheriff of the County, any three of whom shall be a quorum, shall be ex-officio selectors of Jurors, from the Jurors' Rolls within their respective Counties, and may be known as "County selectors." In case of an equality of votes amongst the selectors present upon any question which may arise, the County Judge, if present, or in his absence the Junior Judge, shall have a double or casting vote in the decision of the question. County Clerk a selector, when. Annual Meeting of County selectors. Determina tion of number of year. 4. When the County Treasurer is a practising solicitor, attorney or barrister, he shall be disqualified from acting as a County Selector, and in such case the Clerk of the County Council shall be a County Selector in his place and stead. 5. The County selectors for each County shall assemble annually at the office of the Clerk of the Peace, on the fifteenth day of September, or if such day be a Sunday or statutory holiday, then on the first day thereafter, not being such holiday, for the purpose of determining the number of Jurors both Grand and Petit, and for the Superior and Inferior Courts respectively, which shall be returned by the local Municipalities, to the Clerk of the Peace, for service as Jurors during the ensuing year, and the Clerk of the Peace shall attend the meeting of such selectors, and, in a book to be kept for the purpose, shall enter their proceedings and resolutions; but he shall have no voice in the selection of Jurors, and shall in no case advise or express an opinion whether any name ought to be placed upon or omitted from the Jury list. 6. The County selectors shall at such meeting, by resolution, first determine and declare the number of Jurors, both Grand Jurors for the and Petit respectively, that will be required for service at the several sessions of the Courts during the ensuing year, and shall fix the total number of names of Jurors, Grand and Petit, respectively, and for the Superior and Inferior Courts respectively, which the local Municipalities shall return at three times the number declared by the resolution to be required. Determina tion of number 7. The County selectors shall then, by resolution, determine of Jurors from the number of names of such Grand and Petit Jurors respeceach Munici- tively, for Superior and Inferior Courts respectively, to be repality. turned by each local Municipality in the County, and the number of names of persons on the Voters' lists of each Municipality, marked as qualified to serve on juries, shall form an approximate basis for such division; and the Clerk of the Peace shall preserve, and at such meeting produce for the use of the County selectors, the Voters' lists, delivered to him by the Clerks of the several Municipalities under the provisions of the Voters' Lists Act, or duly certified copies of such lists. County selec8. At their first meeting after this Act shall come into tors to choose letter for each force the County selectors shall, by resolution, determine Municipality. at which letter of the alphabet the selectors for each Municipality within the County shall begin in making their first selection, and so far as may be practicable, they shall choose for each of such Municipalities a different letter of the alphabet. Clerk of the 9. The Clerk of the Peace shall within five days after the palities. of of Grand and Petit Jurors respectively, required to be returned from the Municipality for which he is Clerk, for service ia the Superior and Inferior Courts respectively; and the first year after this Act shall come into force, he shall at the same time notify such clerk of the letter of the alphabet at which it has been determined he and his co-selectors shall begin. 23 and 25. 10. The words "the first day of September," where they Amendments occur in sections fourteen and seventeen of the Jurors' Act, are to ss. 14, 17, repealed, and the words "the tenth day of October" are substituted therefor; and the words "the fifteenth day of the said month of September," where they occur in the third sub-section of the twenty-third section, and the words "the fifteenth day of September," where they occur in the twenty-fifth section of said Jurors' Act, are repealed and the words "the twenty-fifth day of October" are substituted therefor. 11. The eighteenth section of the said Jurors' Act is hereby S. 18 of Jurors repealed, and the following is substituted in lieu thereof: Act repealed. pal selectors to lect Jurors. 18. The selectors for each Municipality shall, from the Manner in certified voters' list for the Municipality for the year if such which Municilist has been certified, or if the same has not been certified, make list from then from the list for the year published by the Clerk of the which to seMunicipality, or if no such list has been published then from the last certified list, or if there is no certified list for the Municipality then from the assessment roll, write down on one or more sheets of paper provided for that purpose, twice as many names of persons appearing by the Assessment Roll to be possessed of the requisite property qualification and otherwise duly qualified to serve on juries, as have been required by the County selectors to be selected and returned from the Municipality; and the proper assessment roll shall in all cases be referred to by the selectors for the purpose of determining who are exempt or disqualified from acting as Jurors and for such other purposes as are necessary in the discharge of their duty as selectors. duce Voters' 2. The Clerk of the Municipality shall for the purposes of Clerk to prothis section, bring with him and produce to the selectors the List and Asproper Voters' List and Assessment Roll. sessment Roll. betical order. 3. The first year after this Act shall come into force, the Selection to be selectors for each Municipality respectively shall commence made in alphawith those persons whose surnames begin with the letter of the alphabet determined upon for such Municipality by the County selectors; and shall then, and thereafter from year to year in making the selection, proceed from letter to letter in alphabetical order, and shall write down the names consecutively in alphabetical order of all those persons qualified to serve on juries and not exempt by law, until twice the total number required C |