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furors,
no challenge to jurors for want of freehold,
50l. above debts a qualification.
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VI. And whereas it has been found, that a sufficient number of freeholders cannot easily be had in the said city qualified to act as jurors in the court of record of the said city, whereby the trials of causes in the said court are much retarded to the great loss and delay of the parties concerned: and whereas there are numbers of wealthy citizens in the said city, who have not freeholds, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from henceforth the want of freehold shall not be a legal or sufficient objection or challenge to any person summoned to be a juror in the said court; but that any person, possessed of or worth the sum of fifty pounds over and above all his just debts, shall be qualified to be impannelled and sworn as a juror in the said court, as if such person had a sufficient freehold.
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