Juries Act 1843 (SA)

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VICTORIA3 R E G I N E. ,

AN ACT to Provide for Trial by Jury at the Gmerul SBWS*OIU of

the Peace next msuinq. .t

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WHEREAS under and by virtue of the powers of an Act of the	Governor and Legislative Council of this Province made and passed
on the twenty-second day of November last entituled "An Act for the Regulation of the Sessions of the Peace in South Australia" a proclamation was made by His Excellency the Governor on the twenty-third day of the said month of November whereby it was aad is appointed that General Sessions of the Peace shall be holden at the Supreme Courthouse in the City of Adelaide on the second Tuesdays of the months of January May and September in every year And
whereas m Act to regulate trials by Jury in South Australia is now under the consideration of the Governor and Council by which Act

tba Peace but it is apprehended that such Act eyleot be passed NB

I pmvisjon is intended to be made as to the number and qualification

of Jtuors for the trial of offenders in the Court of General Mans of

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time to enable a Jury to be summoned for the Court to be holden on

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the second Tuesday in January next and it is therefore necessary to

make provision for the assembling a Jury on such day:

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BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by his Excellency G a o ~ o ~ GEBY Esquire

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ib Governor and Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Province of South

% Australia and its Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same by and

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That

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with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof

it shall be lawful for the Sheriff of this Province on the delivery to

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him of a precept issued in the name of Her Majesty and tested and signed in the manner directed by the before mentioned Act for the Regulation of the Sessions of the Peace in South Australia to cause

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to be summoned twenty-four men out of the persons whose names are contained in the book called " the Jurors' Book" made for the current year 1842 in pursuance of the Act of the Governor and Council of the Province passed on the fitleenth day of November 1837 entituled " An Act for the Constitution of Juries" twenty-four men qualified as required by such Act for the trial of issues of fact

JU"m ,,,ay h	which men so to be summoned shall be deemed to be lawfully sum-
mo-dfa nextsw-	moned under and by virtue of the said Act for the regulation of the

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Sessions of the Peace in South Australia and any twelve of them make

a Jury between our Sovereign Lady the Queen and all or any of the

offenders to be tried at the said Court of General Sessions of the Peace and the Jurors so summoned shall be liable to be fined by

I	the Court for non-attendance in the same manner and to the same extent as Juries may be fined in the Supreme Court under the said Act to regulate 'trials by Jury in South Australia and trials by
Juries so to be summoned as aforesaid shell have all the same

l ? incidents as to challenge or otherwise as trials by Jury under the laut mentioned Act.

G. GREY,

Governor South Aust.aliru

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Clerk of Council.