Chapter CCXCVIII. to provide for the Compensation of grand and petit Jurors in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. CCXCVIII.— An Act to provide for the Compensation of grand and petit Jurors in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, and for other Purposes.July 15, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That hereafter the grand andPay and travel of grand and petit jurors in the circuit and district courts of the United States. petit jurors in the several circuit and district courts of the United States shall each receive for his services the sum of three dollars per day for each day’s actual attendance at court, and for the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the same; and the sum of five cents per mile for the distance necessarily travelled from their residence in going to and returning from said court by the shortest practicable route.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That no person shall be summonedJurors not to be summoned oftener than once in two years. as a juror in any circuit or district court more than once in two years, and it shall be sufficient cause of challenge to any juror called to be sworn in any cause that he has been summoned and attended said court as a juror at any term of said court held within two years prior to the time of such challenge. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the act of Congress, approvedRepeal of acts1849, ch. 118.Vol. ix. p. 403.1842, ch. 7.Vol. v. p. 471.See acts.1800, ch. 61.Vol. ii. p. 82.1789, ch. 20, § 29.Vol. i. p. 88.[This section repealed, Pub.
Res. No. 2.*Post*, p. 589. March three, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled “An act concerning the selection of jurors in certain courts of the United States,” and the act of Congress, approved March nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An act to amend the act approved May thirteen, eighteen hundred, entitled An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,’” be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, July 15, 1870.