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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 Returns of Persons qualified to serve on Juries; some
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Returns not containing the Christian Names, many having the Surnames so ill spelt as to require a
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quite different Sound in Reading; others without the Places of Abode ; many summoned, not having the
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Qualification requisite; and great Numbers duly qualified omitted ; and, in general, so ill wrote as to be
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scarcely 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
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Justices of the Peace
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,
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especially those residing in distant Parts of the County, to whom any Petty Constable or Headborough shall
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apply, to attest their Lists, to inspect 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 Districts, appear in such Lists : And if the
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same shall not be sairly 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
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High Constable
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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
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High Constables
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do give particular Caution to their
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Petty
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Headboroughs
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for preventing any of the Defects aforesaid, and do not receive from them
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any Lists without inspecting the same, to see that they are fairly and correctly written. And if any
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manifest Error shall appear therein, then that he refer such Constable to the Session, giving Notice as
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above. And if any High Constable shall be remiss in the Premises, it will be deemed' a Neglect of
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his Office.
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