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Section IV

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Constables, &c. yearly, at Michaelmas Quarter Sessions, to return Names and Places of Abode of Persons qualified to serve upon Juries.; Two Justices at Sessions to deliver Duplicate of Return by Clerk of the Peace, to Sheriffs, and cause Lists to be entered by Clerk of the Peace.; Sheriff returning Persons not named,; Penalty £5.

And that all Sheriffs of Counties may be the better informed of Persons qualifyed X1who are to be returned for Tryals of Issues joyned in the Courts of Chancery Kings Bench Com[m]on Pleas or Exchequer or to serve upon Juries att Assizes Sessions of Oyer and Terminer General Goal Delivery and Sessions of the Peace Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Constables Tythingmen & Headboroughs of Towns in each County or their Deputies or some or one of them shall yearely att the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden for each County Riding or Division or any part thereof in the Week after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel upon the First Day of the said Sessions or upon the First Day that the said Session shall be held by Adjournment att any other particular Division or Place returne and give a true List in Writing of the Names and Places of Abode of all Persons within the respective Places for which they serve qualifyed to serve upon such Juries with their Titles and Additions between the Age of One and twenty Yeares and the Age of Seventy Yeares to the Justices of the Peace in open Court Which said Justices or any two of them att the said Sessions in the respective Counties Ridings or Divisions shall cause to be delivered a Duplicate of the aforesaid returned List by the Clerks of the Peace of every County or Riding to the Sheriffs or their Deputies on or before the First Day of January next following and cause the said Lists to be fairely entred into a Book by the Clerk of the Peace to be by him provided and kept for that Purpose amongst the Records of the said Court of Sessions And no Sheriff shall impanel or returne any Person or Persons to try any of the Issues joyned in any of the said Courts or to be or serve in any Jury att the Assizes Sessions of Oyer and Terminer Goal Delivery or Sessions of the Peace that shall not be named or mentioned in the said List And any Constable Tythingman or Headborough failing att any time to make the Returne aforesaid shall forfeit and incurr the Penalty of Five Pounds to His Majesty and Successors to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information.

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annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.