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Grand jury to fix the number of cess payers to be associated with the justices for the purposes of this Act, &c.
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8. Every such grand jury as aforesaid shall at each assizes fix and determine the number of persons, not being more than twelve nor less than five, proper, with reference to the extent and circumstances of each county of a city, county of a town, or barony, to be associated with the justices at the presentment sessions to be holden therein for the purposes of this Act, and shall from the return aforesaid make out a list of double the number so determined upon of persons, with their additions and abode, who being males of full age resident and in actual occupation of lands or tenements within such county of a city, county of a town, or barony respectively, shall according to the return aforesaid have paid the highest sum or sums for grand jury rates under the last previous applotment in each such county of a city, county of a town, or barony respectively; and the secretary of the grand jury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each of the persons included in such list a copy thereof, and shall also deliver a copy thereof to the justices assembled at each presentment sessions to be held under the provisions of this Act: Provided always, that at every assizes the grand jury shall, before they shall make out such list, strike out of the return aforesaid the names of one half of the persons whose names appeared on the list made at the then preceding assizes, selecting in the first instance the names of the cess payers who were associated and acted with the justices at the presenting sessions.
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