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Grand jury shall transact fiscal business in open court, in such place and at such times as judges of Queen’s Bench shall appoint; accounts of presentment shall be laid before court to be fiated, and grand jury shall be called over each morning.
Penalty for non-attendance,
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3. The grand jury of the said county of Dublin, so impannelled at the presenting term in each year, shall be and be deemed to be the grand jury of the said county for all the purposes of this Act, and shall transact the fiscal business of the said county in open court, and in such place or room, and within such times, during term, as the judges of the Court of Queen’s Bench from time to time shall appoint, not exceeding twelve days from the first day of each presenting term; and the secretary of the grand jury shall cause to be laid before the Court of Queen’s Bench, two days at least before the last day that shall be appointed by the judges as aforesaid for the finishing of the fiscal business, all accounts of presentments to be fiated by the court; and each grand jury shall for the whole period during which they shall sit be called over each morning at sitting by the foreman or person acting as such, and at all other times when the number of grand jurors present shall be less than by law required for the performance of the functions of a grand jury; and any grand juror who shall make default in his attendance at any of such times shall for every such default incur a penalty of forty shillings; and such default shall be reported by the foreman to the Court of Queen’s Bench, and unless the same shall be excused on the ground of illness, or other good and substantial reason, to the satisfaction of the court, such fine and penalty shall be by the said court confirmed and declared absolute, and recovered and applied in the same manner as fines and penalties imposed on jurors for any defaults or misbehaviour may now by law be recovered and applied; and if the foreman shall fail to call over the jury at the times herein-before appointed, or to report the absence of any juror upon such call, he shall incur a penalty of forty shillings for each such default, to be in like manner recovered and applied: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall limit or affect the authority of the said court to enforce the attendance of any grand juror as said court may now enforce such attendance.
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