1876/77 public laws – Ch.271 Sec.18

That so much of section number two hundred and twenty-nine, of chapter three of the code of civil . procedure, contained in chapter seventeen of Battles Revisal, as requires the county commissioners to draw thirty-six jurors to serve during the first week of the terms of the superior courts of said connty, and also to draw eighteen jurors to serve during the second week of 32 the terms of the superior courts, shallnot apply to the com missioners of Wake county; and from and after the ratification of this act, the county commissioners of the said county of Wake shall proceed, at least twenty days before the meeting of regnlar terms of the superior courts: of sau county, to draw the names of twenty-four jurors in the manner now prescribed by law, twelve of whom shall be summoned to appear and serve as jurors during the first week of the terms of said superior court, and the reInaining twelve to appear and serve during the second week of the terms of said superior court, Aud it shall be the duty of the said commissioners of Wake county, at least twenty days before the regular terms of the said criminal court, or ten days before a special term of said court, to draw names ct thirty Jurors in the same manver and under the same rules and regulations as is now required by law for drawing: the jurors to serve in the superior courts, who shall be sum-= moned to appear and serve as a grand jury and petty jurors: at the next term to be held of the aforesaid criminal court. And the jurors who shall attend said courts shall be entitled to the same compensation, and be subject to the same rules and regulations, and possess the same. qualifications: as are provided by law in regard to jurors in the superior | courts; and that there may not be a deficiency of jurors, | the sheriff, by order of the court, shall summon from day to day, of the by-standers, other jurors to serve on the petit jury, and such tales jurors shall be entitled to the same com pensation, aud be subject to the same rules and regulations, and possess the same qualifications as are prescribed by law for tales jurors,