Chapter 577. To amend section 204 of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto
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CHAP. 577.— An Act To amend section 204 of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.June 14, 1926. [[H. R. 3833](/us/bill/69/hr/3833).] [[Public, No. 385](/us/pl/69/385).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia Code.Vol. 41, p. 559, amended. That section 204 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" Sec. 204. Drawing jurors: At least ten days before the firstJurors.Monthly drawing of grand and petit.*Post*, p. 892. Tuesday of each month specified in section 202 when jury trials are to be had, said jury commission shall publicly break the seal of the jury box and proceed to draw therefrom, by lot and without previous examination, the names of such number of persons as the general term of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia may from time to time direct to serve as grand and petit jurors in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; and shall forthwith certify to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia the names of the persons so drawn as jurors.
" Approved, June 14, 1926.