Chap. 277.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact section 2d of chapter 162
of the Code of 1860 in Relation to the Persons Exempt from Jury Ser-
vice.

In force March 22, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section two
of chapter one hundred amd sixty-two of the Code of eighteen
hundred and sixty, in relation to persons exempt from jury ser-
vice, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$2. The governor and lieutenant-governor of the state,
practicing attorneys, licensed practicing physicians, officers of
any court, all telegraph operators actually engaged as such in
any office in this state, officers and members of the fire depart
ment of a city or town, and all persons mentioned in the second
and third sections of chapter twenty-second, as exempted from
ordinary militia duty (except school commissioners, trustees of
free schools and officers of the militia who resign their com-
missions after serving seven years successively, and non-com-
missioned officers and members of volunteer companies), shall
be exempted from serving on juries,” in civil and criminal cases.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.