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CHAPTER 470 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ISSUANCE OF WRITS OF VENIRE FACIAS FOR GRAND JURORS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chapter 277 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 2G the following section:-

Section 2H. The clerk of the court for Bristol county shall, not less than twenty-eight days before the first Mondays of January and July respectively, issue writs of venire facias for fifty veniremen from whom the court shall select twenty-three grand jurors to serve in said court, who shall serve for each sitting thereof for six months and until another grand jury has been impanelled in their stead.

Approved January 7, 1985.