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Choice out of list as reduced of persons who shall be associated with the justices to constitute presentment sessions for each district.
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71. The grand jury shall then cause the name of every person in such list for each district to be written upon separate pieces of parchment or card, as nearly as may be of equal size, with his respective additions and abode, which shall be put into a box for that purpose provided by the secretary of the grand jury; and the acting foreman shall in open court draw out one after another such number of the said cards or pieces of parchment as the said grand jury may have fixed and determined to be the proper number of cess-payers to be associated with the said justice or justices at each such sessions respectively; and such number of the said cess-payers so first drawn shall be associated with the said justice or justices, and shall with such justices constitute the presentment sessions for such district, and have and exercise, jointly with such justice or justices, all power and authority in the business of such sessions.
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