Chapter 5. To amend the code of law for the District of Columbia, approved March third, nineteen hundred and one
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CHAP. 5.— An Act To amend the code of law for the District of Columbia, approved March third, nineteen hundred and one. January 31, 1902.[[Public, No. 4](/us/pl/57/4).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section two hundred and District of Columbia. Code amended. Vol. 31, p. 1222.four of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the I District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word “one” in the second line thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the word “two;” also by adding to said section the following: *Proviso.* Drawing jurors, 1902.
" *Provided,* That immediately upon the approval of this amendatory Act it shall be the duty of said clerk to proceed to break the seal and to draw from the said box the names of twenty-three persons to serve as grand jurors in said criminal courts whose term of service shall terminate on the Monday preceding the first Tuesday of April, nineteen hundred and two: and at the same time it shall likewise be the duty of said clerk to draw from said box the names of twenty-six persons for service as jurors in the police court of the District of Columbia and to certify the same to the said police court, and the, term of service of said jurors so drawn shall terminate on the last Saturday of the January, nineteen hundred and two, jury term of said police court.
All provisions of the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, entitled ‘An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia’ relating to the grand jury and the police court juries shall apply respectiveIy to the juries drawn under the provisions hereof.” " Provisions for existing juries repealed. *Post,* p. 735. Sec. 2. That the joint resolution to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District Columbia,” approved January eighth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, January 31, 1902.