Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1879 — The Jurors’ Test-Oath Repeal Bill. [ARTICLE]

The Jurors’ Test-Oath Repeal Bill.

The following is the full text of the bill which passed the Senate on the 6tli for the repeal of the Jurors’ Test-oath: A bill In relation to juries, and to repeal Sections 801, 820 uiul 821 and part of 800 of the lievised Statutes of tie United States. lie it emit ted, etc.. That the perdiem pay of each juror, grand and pettt, In any court of the United States “hall lie 82,50. and that the last clause of Section 800, Revised Statutes of the United States, which refers to the State of Pennsylvania, and Sections 801, 820 mid 821, Kevl-ed Statutes of the United States, are hereby repealed; and that all such jurors, grand and petit. Including tin se sun: moued during the scßsiou of the e< tirt, shall b ■ publicly drawn from a box containing the nnines of not less than 300 I e sons St s.iefsing the qualifications pte.-cribe.l in ectiou SOO, lievised Stulutes, which names shall have been placed therein by the Clerk of such Court, und a Commissioner be appointed by a Judge thereof, which Commissio; er shall be a citizen residing in the district ill which such Conrt Is held, of good standing and n i well-known member of the principal political n: r y .'opposing that to which the Clerk may belong, .the Cleric and said Commissioner each to pla-critic name In said box alternately null! the whole number ret aired shall be placed therein. but nothing herein eoutaiued shall 1 o cottsliatcd to pievcnt miv Judge In a district In which such is now the pin' tire from ordering the names of jurors to he drawn from boxes used by the Stnto authorities in selecting jurors in the highest Courts of the State, uutl no person shall servo as petit juror more than one-term in any one yenr, nor be compelled to serve as snch juror more than two weeks a any term, unless It be necessary in order to complete the trial of a cause In which ho may have been impaneled; and all jurors to servo in the Courts after the passage of this act shall be drawn in conformity herewith. All general ana special laws in conlllct herewith are hereby repealed. The smugglers who take lace across the Franco-Belgian frontier employ the services of trained dogs. A recent author says that when oncfladen with the forbidden goods the dog assumes spontaneously bis part of the responsibility. He starts when it is dark ; finds out where the customs’ officers are. If he meets only one on his road he will tight him. if he cannot otherwise force his way through; but if he is not strong enough for a battle-royal, he hides himself behind a tree, or a hedge, or a bush, and waits patiently for a favorable opportunity. Arrived at hip destination, he takes care to ascertain that ho one is about whom he does not know and mistrusts before showing himself. — N. F, Post. . — A German farmer disputed his tax bill. He said: “lpays the State tax, the county tax and the school tax; but I pdys «o total tax. I’se got no total tax and never had A dark-lantern throws some light on a baujj robbery.