Chapter XXVI. to amend the Act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An Act providing for the [S]election of Jurors to serve in the several Courts of the District of Columbia
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CHAP. XXVI.— An Act to amend the Act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An Act providing for the [S]election of Jurors to serve in the several Courts of the District of Columbia.April 20, 1871. Whereas,1862, ch. 102, § 1.Vol. xii. p. 428.Preamble.1871, ch. 62.Vol. xvi. p. 419. by the first, section of said act, the list of jurors to serve in said courts is to be made by the register of Washington city, and the clerks of the city of Georgetown, and levy court of Washington comity, and said officers are abolished by the act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled “An act to provide a government for the District of Columbia”:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That,Supreme court of the District of Columbia to designate persons to make lists of jurors. until the legislative assembly shall otherwise provide, the supreme court of the District of Columbia may, by orders in general term from time to time, designate necessary officers or persons to make the lists of jurors Ibr service in said court, instead of said abolished officers.
Sec. 2. ThatJustice of circuit court may order talesmen to be summoned. the justice holding the special term usually called the circuit court, may order talesmen to be summoned by the marshal whenever the panel drawn for service in said court, for any reason, becomes defective. Approved, April 20, 1871.