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<p n="473"> Order of Session to Prevent defective Returns.</p>
<p n="474"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Collect. Pub. Ord.<lb></lb>
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GREAT Defects having of late appeared in the Return of Persons qualified to serve on Juries; some<lb></lb>
Returns not containing the Christian Names, may having the Surnames so ill spelt as to require a<lb></lb>
quite different Sound in Reading; others without the Places of Abode; many summoned, not having the<lb></lb>
Qualification requifite; and great Numbers duly qualified omitted; and, in general, so ill worte as to be<lb></lb>
fcarcely legible; to the great Hindrance of the Several Courts in the Administration of Justice, and Detriment<lb></lb>
of the Publick, as wel as particular Burthen of Many Persons residing where such imperfect Lists are made,<lb></lb>
It is therefore Ordered, That it be, and it is hereby recommended to his Majesty's Justice, and Detriment<lb></lb>
apply, to attest their Lifts, to insepct and examine the same, touching the above particulars, and to observe<lb></lb>
that the true and proper Names of the Parishes, Wards, and District, appear in such Lifts: And if the<lb></lb>
same shall no be fairly written, as the Act requires, to cause it to be so done; or if it shall appear defective,<lb></lb>
so as not proper to be sworn to, then to refer such Constable, or Headborough, to the Session, and direct<lb></lb>
the High Constable to inform the Court thereof, that such Defaulter may be noticed, and proceeded against<lb></lb>
as the Law directs. And furthermore, that the High Constbles do give paritcular Cautions to their Petty<lb></lb>
Constables and Headboroughs for preventing any of the Defecta aforesaid, and do not receive from them<lb></lb>
any Lifts without inspecting the same, to fee that they are fairly and correctly written. And if any<lb></lb>
mainsest Error shall therein, then that he refer such Constable to the Session, giving Notice as<lb></lb>
above. And if any High Constable shall be remiss in the Premises, it will be deemed a Neglect of<lb></lb>
his Office.</p>
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