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JURY BILL.

IN THE SEVENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA:
SESSION III. No. 2.

ANALYSIS.

I. CONSTITUTION OF JURIES,

1. Who liable.
   II. FORMATION OF JURY LISTS,
2. Justices of the Peace to prepare Jury Lists.
3. Police Magistaates to hear and determine Objections.
4. And transmit List to Sheriff.
5. List to be in use for One Year.
   III. JURY OF FREEHOLDERS.
6. So much of former Ordinance as relates to Constitution
   of Juries, may from time to time be brought into opera-
   tion.

"A BILL to make Temporary Provision for the CONSTITUTION of JURIES.
(Passed ).

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, Preamble.
with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, Session II, No. 3,
entituled "An Ordinance to regulate the Constitution of Juries," it was provided,
that every man except as therein excepted, between the ages of 21 years and 60
years, who should have to his own use a freehold estate in lands and tenements
within the Colony, and who should reside within the same, should be qualified and
liable to serve as a Juror therein, and provision was made for the formation of a Jury
List in manner therein mentioned. And Whereas the Registration of Titles to Land
within the Colony is not yet sufficiently advanced for the purpose of the aforesaid
Ordinance, Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council, as follows;

I. CONSTITUTION OF JURIES.

1. Every man being a natural born subject of Her Majesty, (except as in the Who liable.
   aforesaid Ordinance excepted,) between the ages of 21 years and 60 years, who shall
   be of good fame and character, and who shall reside within the Colony, shall be
   qualified and liable to serve as a Juror therein. Any Native of New Zealand whose
   capability may be certified under certain regulations to be from time to time issued
   by the Governor and Executive Council, shall also be held duly qualified and liable
   to serve as a Juror, on a mixed Jury, for the trial of any case, civil or criminal, in
   which the property or person of any Aboriginal Native of New Zealand may be affected.

II. FORMATION OF JURY LIST.

2. The Police Magistrate in every District or County shall, on the first day of Justices of the
   February in this and every succeeding year, or as soon thereafter as may be, call a Peace to pre.
   Special Meeting of the Justices of the Peace residing within 20 miles of the Police pare Jury List.
   Office, for the purpose of forming a Jury List; the Justices at such meeting (any
   two being a quorum), shall prepare a List in alphebetical order of all men residing
   within such limits as aforesaid, who shall be qualified and liable to serve as Jurors,
   setting forth the Christian and Surname of each at full length, together with his place
   of abode and calling or business-the Police Magistrate shall forthwith cause a copy
   thereof to be published in one or more of the Newspapers of the District or County,
   and shall also cause a copy thereof to be affixed upon the principal door of the Police
   Office, and to such lists and copy thereof shall subjoin a Notice that all objections
   thereto will be heard and determined by him at any time within 10 days after such
   meeting as aforesaid.

3. The Police Magistrate shall have power, after hearing such objections, to Police Magis-
   strike out of the said Lists the names of all persons who shall not be liable to serve trate to hear
   as Jurors, and also of such as are disabled by lunacy or unsoundness of mind, or and determine
   deafness, blindness, or other infirmity, and shall correct all errors therein. objections.

4. A copy of the List so corrected by the Police Magistrate shall be transmitted And transmit
   by him forthwith to the Sheriff of the District. List to Sheriff.