Chapter 27. To amend section two hundred and seventy-six of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven

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CHAP. 27.— An Act To amend section two hundred and seventy-six of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven. February 3, 1917.[[H. R. 20209](/us/bill/64/hr/20209).][[Public, No. 300](/us/pl/64/300).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That section two hundredJudicial Code.Jurors for United States courts.Vol. 36, p. 1164, amended. and seventy-six of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

" “Sec. 276. All such jurors, grand and petit, including those summonedDrawings.Deputy clerk qualified to act in. during the session of the court, shall be publicly drawn from a box containing, at the time of each drawing, the names of not less than three hundred persons, possessing the qualifications prescribed in the section last preceding, which names shall have been placed therein by the clerk of such court, or a duly qualified deputy clerk, and a commissioner, to be appointed by the judge thereof, or by the judge senior in commission in districts having more than one judge,Commissioner.Qualifications. which commissioner shall be a citizen of good standing, residing in the district in which such court is held, and a well-known member 874of the principal political party in the district in which the court is held opposing that to which the clerk, or a duly qualified deputy clerk then acting, may belong, the clerk, or a duly qualified deputy clerk, and said commissioner each to place one name in said box alternately, without reference to party affiliations until the whole number required shall be placed therein.

” " Approved, February 3, 1917.