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Grand jury shall fix number of cess-payers to be associated with justices, not less than five nor more than twelve, for each district; and shall reduce list furnished by collectors to treble that number.
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70. Every such grand jury as aforesaid shall 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 district, 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 treble the number so determined upon of persons, with their additions and abode, who, being males of full age, resident on and in actual possession of lands, houses, or tenements within such district 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 district respectively: Provided always, that at every presenting term 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 presenting term, 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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