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And whereas it is expedient that the said Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors should be further continued; Be it therefore Enacted, by The KING's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT the said recited Act of the first and second years of the reign of his late Majesty, as the same is amended by the said recited Acts of the third and tenth years of the same reign, and save and except as any provisions thereof may be repealed or other provisions substituted therefor by the said recited Act of the first 10 and second years of His present Majesty's reign, shall be continued, and the said recited Acts of the first and second, third and tenth years of the reign of his late Majesty, and such parts of the said recited Act of the first and second year of the reign of His present Majesty, as relates to the Law for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, shall 15 be and the same are hereby continued accordingly for One year from the passing of this Act, and thenceforth until the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

(Ireland.)

A

BIL L

For consolidating and amending the Laws relative
to Jurors and Juries in Ireland.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted
in the Committee.]

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1.

Age and
Qualification
of Jurors in

Ireland in
Superior
Courts,
Affizes, and
Seffions of the

HEREAS the Laws relative to the qualifications and Preamble. summoning of Jurors and the formation of Juries in Ireland are numerous and complicated, and it is expedient to consolidate and simplify the same, and to alter the mode of striking Special Juries, and in some respects to amend the said Laws; Be it therefore Enacted, by The KING's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT every man, except as hereinafter ex10 cepted, between the ages of Twenty-one years and Sixty years, residing in any County in Ireland, who shall have in his own name or in trust for him, within the same County, Ten Pounds by the year above reprizes in lands or tenements, or in rents issuing out of any lands or tenements, or in lands tenements and rents taken to15 gether, in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for the life of himself or some other person or persons, or who shall have within the same County Fifteen Pounds by the above reprizes in lands or tenements held by lease or leases for an absolute term of not less than Twenty-one years, of which Fifteen years at the least shall be un20 expired, or for any term of years determinable on any life or lives, shall be qualified and shall be liable to serve on Juries for the trial of all Issues joined in any of the King's Courts of Record in Dublin, and in all Courts of Assize, Nisi Prius, Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, such Issues being respectively triable in the County

year

Peace.

6 Geo. 4.

c. 50.§ 1.
[See Irish Acts

10 Car. 1. s. 2.

c. 13. § 1. 12 Geo. 1.

c. 4. § 16.

29 Geo. 2.

c. 6. § 1.

1 Geo. 3.

c. 17. § 9.

13, 14 Geo. 3, c. 41. § 1.]

2.

Exemptions from ferving on Juries.

6 Geo. 4.

c. 50. § 2.

6 Geo. 1.
c. 5. § 11.
23, 24 Geo. 3.
c. 17. § 35.
26 Geo. 3.
c. 14. § 71.
31 Geo. 3.
c. 34.

35 Geo. 3.
c. 28. § 35.]

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in which every man so qualified respectively shall reside; and shall
also be qualified and liable to serve on Grand Juries in Courts of
Sessions of the Peace, and on Petty Juries for the trial of all Issues
joined in such Courts of Sessions of the Peace and triable in the
County in which every man so qualified respectively shall reside; and
that every man, except as hereinafter excepted, being between the
aforesaid ages, residing in any county of a city or county of a town
in Ireland, and being there qualified as aforesaid, and also every
resident Merchant, Freeman and Householder having lands or te-
nements or personal estate of the value of One hundred Pounds, 10
shall be qualified and shall be liable to serve as a Juror for the trial
of all Issues joined in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at
Dublin, and in all Courts of Assize, Nisi Prius, Oyer and Terminer
and General Delivery, such Issues being respectively tried in the
said City or Town in which every man so qualified shall respec- 15
tively serve.

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Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That all Peers; all Judges of the King's Courts of Record in Dublin; all Clergymen in holy orders; all persons who shall teach or preach in any religious [SeeIrish Acts congregation; all Serjeants and Barristers at Law actually prac- 20 tising; all Assistant Barristers, all Judges of Ecclesiastical Courts, all Advocates in Ecclesiastical Courts or in Courts of the Civil Law, actually practising; all Attornies, Solicitors and Proctors duly admitted in any Court of Law or Equity, or of Ecclesiastical or Admiralty Jurisdiction, in which Attornies, Solicitors and Proctors have 25 usually been admitted, actually practising and having duly taken out their annual certificates; all Officers of any such courts, or of any Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, actually exercising the duties of their respective offices; all Public Notaries duly admitted; all Coroners, Gaolers and Keepers of Houses of Correction; all Members and Licentiates of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland actually practising, and all other Physicians actually practising; all Surgeons being members of one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in London, Edinburgh or Dublin, and actually practising; all Apothecaries certificated by the Court of Examiners 35 of the Governor and Company of the Apothecaries Hall of the city of Dublin, and actually practising; all Officers in His Majesty's Navy or Army on full pay; all Officers of Customs and Excise; all Sheriffs Officers, High Constables, Police Constables, and Parish Clerks; all Postmasters General and their Deputies, and all other 40 persons employed and acting in the service of His Majesty's Postoffice; all Treasurers, Inspectors of Grand Jury Accounts, Secre taries of Grand Juries, and Collectors of Cess, shall be and are hereby absolutely freed and exempted from being returned and from serving upon any Juries. or Inquests whatsoever, and shall not be

inserted