ARTICLE V. MANNER OF RETURNING THE TRIAL JURY LIST, IN THE CITY OF NEWYORK. SECTION 285. Commissioner of jurors. 286. Place of office and compensation. 287. Must annually prepare a jury list. 290. Notice to be given for correction of list. 291. Commissioner must attend to hear objections. 293. Jury list to be filed with county clerk. 294. A justice's jury list to be made. 295. Clerks to keep two jury boxes. 296. New ballots to be prepared annually. 297. Other persons may be added to jury list. 298. Their names to be returned to county clerk. § 285. There is, in the city of New-York, an officer known as the commissioner of jurors, who is appointed by the supervisors of the city and county of New-York, and the judges of the superior court and court of common pleas of that city, and who holds his office during their pleasure. § 286. His office must be kept at the place designated from time to time by the board of supervisors, who must also regulate his compensation, and the number and compensation of his clerks and assistants. § 287. The commissioner of jurors must annually, between the first days of May and June, make and enter in a book known as the jury register, a list denominated the trial jury list of the city of New-York, containing the names of persons to serve as trial jurors in that city and county, until a new list be returned. § 288. Every person must, upon the application of the commissioner of jurors, or any of his assistants, give correct information of his knowledge or belief of the liability of a person to serve as a juror. For his refusal to do so, or his wilfully giving incorrect information in respect thereto, he is liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, recoverable in a civil action by the corporation of the city of New-York § 289. In preparing the trial jury list, the commissioner of jurors must select the name of every person who is known or believed to be possessed of the qualifications prescribed in section 251, and not entitled to exemption, as provided in section 252. § 290. As soon after the first day of June in each year, as the trial jury list is completed, the commissioner of jurors must publish, for at least ten days, in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, a notice that the trial jury list will be open at his office daily, between nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon, for examination and correction, until a specified day, at least thirty days from the last publication of the notice. § 291 The commissioner of jurors must attend at his office, at the times mentioned in the notice, for the purpose of determining the right to exemption, of a person, whose name is on the trial jury list, and may take proof and administer oaths in respect thereto. § 292. Upon proof that a person, whose name is on the trial jury list, is exempt for any of the causes mentioned in section 252, and not otherwise, the commissioner of jurors must strike his name from the list, and enter in a book known as the exemption register, 1. The name of the person exempt: 2. The ground of exemption: 3. The name of the person by whose certificate or oath the exemption was proved: and 4. The day when the name was stricken from the list. § 293. Within ten days after the time appointed for the examination and correction of the trial jury list, as provided in section 290, the commissioner of jurors must file with the county clerk, a certified copy of the list as corrected. § 294. He must also, within the same time, make and deliver to the clerk of the justice's court of each justice's district in the city of New-York, a certified list denominated the justice's jury list, containing the name, place of residence, and occupation of each person embraced in the corrected trial jury list, who resides in the district. § 295. Each clerk mentioned in the last two sections must keep in his office two sufficient boxes, carefully secured, the one of whieh is denominated the undrawn jury box, and the other the drawn jury box. § 296. On receiving the trial or justice's jury list, as provided in sections 293 and 294, both inclusive, the clerk must destroy all ballots remaining in both boxes, and must prepare and deposit in the undrawn jury box, separate ballots, containing the name, place of residence and occupation of each person embraced in the list, and folded as nearly alike as possible, and so that the name cannot be seen. § 297. If, after the return of a trial jury list, the commisioner of jurors discover that the name of a person, qualified to act as a juror and not exempt, has been omitted, he must give written notice to the person so omitted, to appear at his office at a specified time, at least five days after the service, to show cause why his name should not be placed on the trial jury list. The notice must be served on the person to whom it is directed, personally, or by delivering it to a person of suitable age and discretion, at his place of residence. $298. If the person so served, fail to appear or to show by proof, as prescribed in section 291, that he is exempt, his name must be immediately returned to the county clerk, and to the clerk of the justice's court, in the district in which he resides, in the manner provided in sections 293 and 294, in respect to the original trial or justice's jury list; and a ballot containing the name, must be prepared and deposited in the undrawn jury box, in the manner provided in section 296. ARTICLE VI. DRAWING AND SUMMONING THE TRIAL JURY FOR THE CIRCUITS AND COURTS OF OYER AND TERMINER, THE SUPERIOR COURT AND COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, THE COURTS OF SESSIONS, AND THE COUNTY, SURROGATES' AND CITY COURTS. SECTION 299. Trial jurors to be taken from undrawn box of the county. 301. Other courts for which they may be drawn. 305. Number of jurors for different courts. 306. Trial jurors for circuit and oyer and terminer, the same. § 299. A trial jury, when required for either of the courts embraced in this article, must be drawn from the undrawn jury box of the county in which the court is held. But if it be drawn for a city court, the clerk must return to the box, every ballot containing the name of a person not stated thereon to reside in the city in which the court is established. 2. For every trial term of the superior court or court of common pleas of the city of New-York: 3. For every term of the court of sessions of the city cf New-York, and 4. For every term of a city court. |