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Order of Session to Prevent defective Returns.
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Collect. Pub. Ord.
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Pag. 17.
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GREAT Defects having of late appeared in the Return of Persons qualified to serve on Juries; some
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Returns not containing the Christian Names, may having the Surnames so ill spelt as to require a
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quite different Sound in Reading; others without the Place of Abode; many summoned, not having the
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Qualification requifite; and great Numbers duly qualified omitted; and, in general, so ill worte as to be
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fcarcely legible; to the great Hindrance of the Several Courts in the Administration of Justice, and Detriment
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of the Publick, as well as particular Burthen of many Persons residing where such imperfect Lists are made,
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It is therefore Ordered, That it be, and it is hereby recommended to his Majesty's Justice, and Detriment
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apply, to attest their Lifts, to insepct and examine the same, touching the above Particulars, and to observe
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that the true and proper Names of the Parishes, Wards, and District, appear in such Lifts: And if the
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same shall no be fairly written, as the Act requires, to cause it to be so done; or if it shall appear defective,
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so as not proper to be sworn to, then to refer such Constable, or Headborough, to the Session, and direct
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the High Constable to inform the Court thereof, that such Defaulter may be noticed, and proceeded against
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as the Law directs. And furthermore, that the High Constbles do give paritcular Cautions to their Petty
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Constables and Headboroughs for preventing any of the Defect aforesaid, and do not receive from them
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any Lifts without inspecting the same, to fee that they are fairly and correctly written. And if any
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mainsest Error shall therein, then that he refer such Constable to the Session, giving Notice as
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above. And if any High Constable shal be remiss in the Premises, it will be deemed a Neglect of
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his Office.
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