PAYMENT OF JURORS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 446, 5 January 1869, Page 2

PAYMENT OF JURORS.

"We perceive by an Act passed in the last session of the G-eneral Assembly, to consolidate and amend the law relating to juries in New Zealand, that every juror who shall be summoned and who shall have attended at the Supreme Court to try ''• civil issues " or assess damages, and shall have actually served as a juror upon a jury, shall be entitled to receive, if the jury be a special jury, the sum of 20s"; ; if a common jnry, 10s; and every talesman who shall have been added, to any panel to try civil issues or assess damages, and shall have served upon anyjury, shall be entitled to receive the same sum for such attendance as if he had been originally written on the said panel. The following is a list of exemptions from service as jurymen :—Members of the Evecutive Council, members of both Houses of the General Assembly, members of Provincial Councils, during the time that such Councils shall be in session; Justices of the Supreme, District, and

Native Lands Courts, and Resident Magistrates, clergymen in holj orders, and all perilous who shall preach or teach in any religious congregation, and who shall not follow any secular occupation except that of a schoolmaster ; all schoolmasters and inspectors of schools, all barrißtera-at-Jaw and solicitors, duly admitted and actually practising ; all persons holding any salaried or paid office by appointment of the Governor, all coroners, gaolers, police-officers, and constables, all licensed pilots and masters of vessels actually employed in the service of the Government, whether by the appointment of the Governor, or by virtue of any contract with the Government; all persons in her Majesty's Army and Navy on full pay, every commissioned officer of the Militia or of the Volunteer Force, whether on actual service or not, and every other member of any corps of Volunteers, while on actual service in the field, and every militiaman when called out and on actual service, and every Volunteer holding a certificate of efficiency granted under, and in accordance with, the provisions of " The Volunteer Act, 1865," and any rules or regulations made thereunder for the time being in force. It must bo understood that members of the Provincial Council are exempt only when the Councils are in session, and that the names of volunteers and militiamen can be inserted in the jury list : except only when they are on actual service. The Act came inte operation on the Ist January.