turnable the first day of the term. 116. The courts direct the number of jurors to be returned, in cases where the number is not fixed by law. 117. Proviso, That this act shall not interfere with any provisions specially made for any county. 118. Sheriff, on receiving venire process, to give notice to the commissioners, and proceed to draw a panel. 119. Names of persons removed or dead, if drawn, shall be destroyed, and other names drawn to fill the panel. 120. How several writs of venire, in the hands of the sheriff, at the same time, shall be executed. 121. The same panel of names shall be annexed to the venires, issuing from Civil and Criminal Courts held in the same county during the same week. 122. Jurors shall be drawn from the names deposited for the preceding year, if thirty days do not intervene between the time of the depositing of the names and the term of the court. 123. Commissioners to make lists of the names drawn and deliver them to the sheriff and the prothonotary. 124. Special writs of venire shall issue in cases of a struck jury and view. 125. Jurors to be summoned ten days before the term. 126. Names of persons privileged from serving on juries shall not be put into any wheel as aforesaid. 127. Sheriff to enter the names of all persons summoned and serving on juries in a book, and the times of their service. 128. Prothonotaries and clerks to certify the sheriff, &c., at each term the names of jurors who appeared, made default, or were excused. 129. Jurors serving may have a certificate of their service. 130. Prothonotaries to cer tify to the commissioners the number of days every juror shall have served. 131. Coroners to perform the duties hereinbefore enjoined upon sheriffs in certain cases, or a disinterested person to be appointed for the purpose. then returned to the box. 143. A jury may be empannelled in a second or subsequent cause from the remaining jurors. 144. Jurors may in certain cases be supplied from the bystanders or the county at large. 145. Penalty on persons summoned from the bystanders, &c., in case of their refusing to serve. 146. Courts may award a special venire in any cause in case of a challenge to the array sustained. 147. How such a venire shall be directed, its form in such case. 148. Courts of criminal jurisdiction may award a special venire in case of a challenge to the array by the defendant and sustained. 149. Aliens shall not have a jury de medietate linguae. 150. Peremptory challenges. allowed, two in civil and four in any criminal case. 151. Liability to taxation not to render incompetent a juror, in suits upon official bonds, etc. 152. Peremptory challenge in cases of treason. 153. Peremptory challenge in murder and other cases. 157. How a special jury Ishall be struck from the list of common jurors. 158. Views to be had by six or more jurors. 159. Viewers at the calling on of the cause shall 161. Penalty on jurors taking any thing to give a verdict; proviso, saving to the party aggrieved his action for damages if the penalty be recovered by another person. 162. Embracery defined, and the penalty upon persons guilty thereof. 163. Existing Circuit Courts abolished. 164. Supreme Court at Harrisburg to sit in the capitol and use the library. 165. Acts creating the Lancaster and Southern districts repealed. 166. Records of the abolished districts removed. 167. Records of Northern district to remain at Sunbury. "I. OF THE SUPREME COURT "Section 1. That there shall be holden and kept at the times and places, and during the terms hereinafter appointed, a court of record, the name and style whereof shall be "The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." "Section 2. The Supreme Court is hereby declared to consist of a chief justice and four associate judges, and the said judges, or a majority of them, when convened for the purpose agreeably to law, shall have power to hold the said court. "Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Governor, from time to time, as any vacancy may occur in the office of chief justice or a judge of the said court, to commission, by a distinct patent, under the great seal of the Commonwealth, a person of known integrity and ability, skilled in the law, to supply such vacancy, distinguishing in such patent, the name of the office to which he may be so appointed. "Section 4. For the purpose of holding the said Supreme Court, the Commonwealth is hereby declared to be divided into four districts, denominated the eastern district, the western district, the northern district, and the middle district: The eastern district consists of the city and county of Philadelphia, and the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Northampton, Montgomery, Lehigh, Pike, and Wayne; the northern district, of the counties Northumberland, Luzerne, Lycoming, Bradford, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Susquehanna, Columbia, Union; the middle district, of the city and county of Lancaster, the counties of Dauphin, Berks, Schuylkill, York, Lebanon, Mifflin, Centre, Clearfield, Juniata, Huntingdon, Cumberland, Bedford, Franklin, Adams, Perry; The western district, of the city of Pittsburg, and the counties Allegheny, Somerset, Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Beaver, Butler, Mercer, Crawford, Erie, Warren, Venango, Armstrong, Cambria, Indiana, Jefferson. "Section 5. The judges of the said Supreme Court shall annually hold five terms of the said court, at the places and at and during the terms hereinafter specified, if the business depending in the said court at the respective places of holding the same shall require it, to wit: One term at the city of Philadelphia, to commence on the second Monday in December, and to continue three weeks, for the eastern district aforesaid; one other term at the said city of Philadelphia to commence on the third Monday in March, and to continue two weeks, also for the eastern district aforesaid; one term at the borough of Harrisburg, to commence on the second Monday of May, and continue eight weeks, for the middle district aforesaid; one term at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny, to commence on the first Monday of September, and to continue eight weeks, for the western district aforesaid; one term at Sunbury, in the county of Northumberland, to commence on the second Monday in July, and to continue two weeks, for the said northern district. "Section 6. Provided, That the judges of the said Supreme Court shall continue, by adjournment, the said terms, whenever the business which may be depending before them at any of the places aforesaid shall render it necessary, so always as not to interfere with their duties in any other of the districts aforesaid. "Section 7. It shall be the duty of the judges of the said Supreme Court, or one of them, to attend on the last Monday in July, at the place appointed by law for holding the said court for the eastern district aforesaid, to grant rules, make all necessary orders touching any suit, action, writ of error, process, pleadings, or other proceedings, returned to or depending in the said court at the said place, preparatory to the hearing, trial or decision of such action, writ of error, process, pleading or other proceeding. "Section 8. The said supreme Court shall have in each of the districts aforesaid, a seal, for the use of the said court, having engraven thereon the arms of this Commonwealth, and underneath the arms the figures ‘1776,' and around the edge and near the extremity or margin thereof the words following, 'Seal of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,' and such other words and devices as are inscribed on the seals of the said court now in use; and the said seals may be renewed under the direction of the said court as often as occasion shall require. "Section 9. A prothonotary or clerk shall be appointed for the said Supreme Court at each of the places of holding the same as aforesaid; he shall have the custody of the records and seal of the court for the respective district, and keep the same at the place of holding such court, and in the apartments provided by authority of law for that purpose, and he shall faithfully perform, under the direction of the court, all the duties appertaining to his office. "Section 10. The prothonotary of the said Supreme Court, and such other discreet persons as the said court may from time to time appoint, shall be, within the districts where they respectively reside, commissioners of bail, having, severally, full power to take and receive recognizances of bail in any suit or action depending in the said court. "Section II. The first day and last day of every term of the said Supreme Court, in every of the said districts, shall be a common day of return of all writs and process, whether original, |