Chapter VII. *supplementary to an act entitled “An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred, entitled An act to amend an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.”* March 19, 1842
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Chap. VII.— An Act *supplementary to an act entitled “An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred, entitled An act to amend an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.”* March 19, 1842. Act of May 13, 1800, ch. 61. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the judges of Act of March 3, 1841, ch. 38. Commission’rs to select persons to serve as jurors.the courts of the United States in the State of Pennsylvania be, and they hereby are, authorized to appoint, when they deem it necessary, one or more commissioners in the different cities and counties, or any of them, of the districts in which their Courts are held, who shall have power, by virtue of such appointment, to select from the taxable citizens residing within the limits of the said counties and cities, a number (to be designated from time to time by the said judges) of sober, judicious, and intelligent persons, to serve as jurors in the said courts; and the commissioners so appointed shall return the names by them selected to Names of those selected to be returned to the marshals.the marshal of the proper district; whereupon, the said courts shall, by due appointments, rules and regulations, conform the further designation and the empannelling of juries in substance to the laws and usages which may be in force in such State.
Approved, March 19, 1842.