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Jury to be summoned if refusal made of selling, &c.
Jurymen may be challenged, but not the array.
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18. If any body or bodies politic or corporate, or other person or persons having or claiming to have any estate, title, term, or interest in or to such grounds, houses, tenements, edifices, erections, or buildings as aforesaid, or any charge, lien, or incumbrance thereon, shall refuse to agree with the said grand juries respectively, for the sale and conveyance of their respective rights, terms and interests therein, or shall not produce or evince a clear title to such estate, rights, titles, terms, or interests as they shall or may so claim, or if the said grand juries respectively shall be ignorant who are entitled to the same, then and in every or any such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, and they are hereby empowered and authorized from time to time to issue a warrant or warrants, precept or precepts, to the sheriff of the county, county of a city, or county of a town, who is hereby authorized, directed and required accordingly to empannel, summon, and return a competent number of substantial persons, qualified to serve on juries not less than sixty, out of which persons so to be empannelled, summoned, and returned, a jury of twelve persons shall be drawn, by some person to be by the said commissioners appointed, in such manner as juries for the trials of issues joined in His Majesty’s Four Courts at Dublin, by an Act made in Ireland in the twenty-ninth year of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, “An Act for the better regulating juries,” are directed to be drawn, which persons so to be empannelled, summoned, and returned as aforesaid, are hereby required to come and appear before the said commissioners, at such time and place as in such warrant or warrants, precept or precepts, shall be directed and appointed, and to attend the said commissioners, till discharged by them; and all persons concerned shall and may have their lawful challenges against any of the said jurymen, but shall not be at liberty to challenge the array.
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