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courts. (Approved July 3, 1890; 26 U. S. Stats. 217.)

KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.-In the several districts of Kentucky and Indiana, such number of jurors shall be summoned by the marshal at every term of the circuit and district courts, respectively, as may have been ordered of record at the previous term; and in case there is not a sufficient number of jurors in attendance at any time, the court may order such number to be summoned as, in its judgment, may be necessary to transact the business of the court. And a grand jury may be summoned to attend every term of the circuit or district court by order of the court. The marshal may summon juries and talesmen in case of a deficiency, pursuant to an order of the court made during the term, and they shall serve for such time as the court may direct. (Rev. Stats. sec. 815.)

LOUISIANA.-All grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each division shall be residents of such division. (25 U. S. Stats. 388, 438.)

MICHIGAN.-One grand and one petit jury only shall be summoned, and serve in both said courts at each term thereof; and jurors shall be selected and drawn from the division of the said district in which they reside and in which the terms of the said circuit and district courts to which they are summoned are held. (20 U. S. Stats. 175.)

MINNESOTA.-A grand and petit jury shall be summoned for each of said terms (of the circuit and district courts) which petit jury shall be competent to sit and act as such jury in either or both of said courts at such terms; provided, that the

judge of the district court may, in his discretion, dispense with the summoning or impanneling of more than one grand jury in each year in any of said divisions. (Approved April 29, 1890; 26 U. S. Stats. 73, sec. 6.)

MISSISSIPPI.Whenever the circuit and district courts in the southern district of Mississippi shall be held at the same time and place, only one grand jury and the necessary number of petit jurors shall be summoned for both courts, and they shall be the grand and petit jurors for both said courts. (Approved April 4, 1888; 25 U. S. Stats. 78.) Juries shall be summoned for the additional courts hereby created as now provided by law for the summoning of juries in said northern district. (22 U. S. Stats. 101.)

MISSOURI-Juries shall be summoned for the courts hereby created [in the several subdivisions of the districts], as now provided by law for the summoning of juries in the said districts, and whenever the circuit and district courts in either of said districts or divisions shall be held at the same time and place, jurors shall not be summoned for each of said courts, but for both said courts, and they shall act accordingly as grand and petit jurors for both said courts. (Approved May 14, 1890; 24 U. S. Stats. 424; 26 U. S. Stats. 106, sec. 3.)

NEW YORK. No jury shall be drawn for service exclusively in the circuit court for the northern district of New York at the terms thereof required by law to be held at Albany and Syracuse, or at the adjourned term thereof required by law to be held at Utica, if a jury is drawn to serve in the district court held at the same times and places

with said terms and adjourned term, but it shall be used for the trial of issues of fact arising in civil and criminal causes in said circuit court; and the verdicts of said jury and all proceedings upon the trial of said issues shall be of the same effect as if the said jury had been drawn to serve in the said circuit court. (Approved March 23, 1882; Rev. Stats. sec. 806, repealing the original section 806 of the Rev. Stats.; United States v. Rose, 6 Fed. Rep. 137.)

NORTH CAROLINA. The circuit and district courts for either of the districts of North Carolina may order a grand or petit jury, or both, to attend any special term thereof, by an order to be entered of record thirty days before the day on which such special term is appointed to convene. (Rev. Stats. sec. 816.)

NORTH DAKOTA.-When the circuit court and district court is held, as provided in this act, at the same time and place, one grand and one petit jury only shall be summoned and serve in both said courts. (26 U. S. Stats. 14.)

SOUTH DAKOTA. Similar provisions of the stat ute. (26 U. S. Stats. 14.)

OHIO. One grand jury and one petit jury only shall be summoned, and serve in both of said courts at each term thereof. (20 U. S. Stats. 101.)

Northern and Southern Districts. All grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each division shall be residents of such division. All mesne and final process, subject to the provisions herein before contained, issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions. (20 U. S. Stats. 101; 1 Sup. Rev. Stats. 339; 21 U. S. Stats. 64; 1 Sup. Rev. Stats. 509.)

SOUTH CAROLINA -The grand and petit juries for the district court sitting in the western district of South Carolina shall be drawn from the inhabitants of said district who are liable, according to the laws of said State, to do jury duty in the courts thereof; and all jurors shall be drawn during the sitting of the court for the next succeeding term. (Rev. Stats. sec. 817.)

TENNESSEE.

All grand and petit jurors summoned for service in each division shall be residents of such division. All mesne and final process subject to the provisions herein before contained, issued in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions. (21 U. S. Stats. 175.)

VERMONT.-The clerk of the district court for Vermont shall not cause a petit jury to be summoned or returned to any session in which there shall appear to be no issue proper for trial by jury, unless by special order of the judge. (Rev. Stats. sec. 807.)

In the district of Vermont, it shall be the duty of the circuit court, at its regular sessions, to give in charge to the grand juries all crimes, offenses, and misdemeanors which are cognizable as well in the district court thereof as in the said circuit court. (Rev. Stats. sec. 818.)

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