United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/26th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 47
Chap. XLVII.—An Act to amend the act, approved May thirteenth, eighteen hundred, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.’”[1]
Act of May 13, 1800, ch. 61.
Jurors of U.S. courts in each State to have like qualifications, &c.
1841, ch. 38.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurors to serve in the courts of the United States, in each State respectively, shall have the like qualifications, and be entitled to the like exemptions, as jurors of the highest court of law of such State now have and are entitled to, and shall hereafter from time to time have and be entitled to, and shall be designated by ballot, lot, or otherwise, according to the mode of forming such juries now practised and hereafter to be practised therein, in so far as such mode may be practicable by the courts of the United States, or the officers thereof; and further, shall have power, by rule or order, from time to time, to conform the same to any change in these respects which may be hereafter adopted by the Legislatures of the respective States for the State courts.
Approved, July 20, 1840.
- ↑ An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend the act approved May 13, 1800, entitled ‘An act to amend an act to establish the judicial system of the United States;’” March 3, 1841, chap. 38.
An act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to amend the act approved May 13, 1800, entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States;” March 19, 1842, chap. 7.