Order of Session to prevent defective Returns.
Collect. Pub. Ord.
Pag. 17.
GREAT Defects having of late appeared in the Returns of Persons qualified to Served on Juries; some
Returns not containing the Christian Names, many having the Surnames so ill spelt as to require a
quite different Sound in Reading; others without the Places of Abode; many Summoned not having the
Qualification requisite; and great Numbers duly qualified omitted; and, in General, so ill wrote as to be
Scarcely legible; to the great Hinderance of the Several Courts in the Administration of Justice, adn
Detriment of the Publick, as well as particular Burthen of many Persons residing where such imperfect
Lifts are made, IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, That it be, and it is hereby recommended to his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace, especially those residing in distant Parts of the County, to whom any
Petty Constable or Headborough shall apply to attest their Lifts, to inspect and examine the same,
touching the above Particulars, and to observe that the true and proper Names of the Parishes, Wards,
and Districts, appear in such Lifts: And if the same shall not be fairly written, as the Act requires,
to cause it to be to done; or if it shall appear defective, so as not proper to be sworn to, then to refer
such Constable, or Headborough, to the Session, and direct the High Constable to inform the Court
thereof, that such Defaulter may be noticed, and proceeded against as the Law Directs. AND further
more, that the High Constables do give Particular Caution to their Petty Constables and Headboroughs
for preventing any of the Defects aforesaid, and do not received from them any Lists without inspecting
the same, to see that they are fairly and correctly written. And if any maniseft Error shall appear therein,
then that he refer such Constable to the Session, giving Notice as above. AND if any High Constable
shall be remiss in the Premises, it will be deemed a Neglect of his Office.
Middlesex: July Session 1790
William Wright< no role >
Order for the Return of Jurors