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Jurors to be summoned.
Jurors many be challenged.
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LXXII. And be it enacted, That if, in any Notice of Appeal to be served on said Commissioners as aforesaid the Party appealing shall require a Jury to be summoned for determining the Matter of such Appeal, then and in every such Case the said Commissioners shall issue their Warrant under their Hands and Seals to the Sheriff of the County where such Appeal is to be heard, commanding such Sheriff to impannel, summon, and return a Jury, and such Party shall also serve a Copy of such Notice of Appeal on such Sheriff; and the said Sheriff to whom the said Warrant shall be directed or such Notice given is hereby required accordingly to impannel, summon, and return a Jury of Twenty-four Men, qualified according to Law to be returned for Trials of Issues joined in Her Majesty‘s Courts in Dublin, to appear before the said Assistant Barrister at such Time and Place as in such Warrant or Warrants shall be appointed, not being less than Fourteen Days after such Warrant shall be served upon the said Sheriff, upon Pain to forfeit for every Default in not making such Return Five Pounds, to be sued for and recovered in the Manner herein-after directed, and also to return in Issues upon every Person so impannelled and returned, who, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, shall not appear, the Sum of Forty Shillings, which shall be levied, by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Person not appearing as aforesaid, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the said Assistant Barrister; and in case a sufficient Number of Jurymen shall not appear at such Time and Place, the said Sheriff shall return other honest and indifferent Men that can speedily be procured to attend that Service, being qualified as aforesaid, to make up the said Jury to the Number of Twelve; and all Parties concerned shall and may have their lawful Challenges against any of the said Jurymen; and the said Assistant Barrister is hereby empowered, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, from Time to Time, as Occasion shall require, to summon and call before him all and every such Person and Persons as shall be thought necessary to be examined as Witnesses touching the Matters in question; and the Assistant Barrister may order and authorize the said Jury, or any Six or more of them, to view the Place or Matter in question, which Jury (upon their Oaths, to be administered by the said Assistant Barrister, which Oaths, as also the Oaths to such Person or Persons as shall be called upon to give Evidence, the said Assistant Barrister is hereby empowered to administer,) shall inquire of, assess, and ascertain the Sum of Money to be paid for the Purchase of such Land, or the Recompence or Satisfaction to be made for Damages that may or shall be sustained as aforesaid, and what Abatements (if any) are to be made to any Tenant or Occupier of such Land, and to settle and ascertain in what Proportions the Sum so assessed shall be paid to the several Persons interested in the Premises.
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