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Grand jury not to enter on criminal business until commission is opened; and the fiscal business to be concluded before the opening of the commission, &c;
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34. The grand jury impannelled as aforesaid shall not be competent to receive any bill of indictment, or to present any nuisance or offence, or to enter upon any criminal business whatsoever, or to perform any functions appertaining to grand jurors, other than those relating to presentments for raising money or accounting therefor, or public works, or the general fiscal concerns of the county, until the judge of assize shall open the commission; and the whole of such fiscal business shall be concluded by such grand jury at or before the opening of such commission; and all the presentments for raising money, or any how respecting public works, shall be delivered to the clerk of the crown at or before such time, save as herein-after provided; and after opening such commission with the accustomed formalities the judge of assize shall at the usual time direct the grand jury to attend in court, and cause to be administered, in manner and form heretofore practised according to law, to each of the persons composing the same, such oath as has been or ought to have been heretofore administered to such persons by such judge or justices; and the said grand jury shall then and thereupon be and become to all intents and purposes fully competent to the exercise of all functions of grand jurors whatsoever, save the making any presentment for raising money, or respecting public works, or such other business of a fiscal nature as has been herein-before directed to be concluded before opening the commission, or the first day of such term, as aforesaid.
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