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 1166 SIXTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 231. 1911. during which a person so accused may be held under recogmzance before indictment found. _ _ _ °*¤'=¤·¤‘8°gu 15, Sec. 285. The district courts, the district courts of the Termtories, B`S"m°` 'P` and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia may discharge their grand juries whenever they deem a contmuance of the sessions of such juries unnecessary. _ _ _ _ S·=rv¤¤¤ of rw} Ju- Sec. 286. No person shall serve as a pet1t juror m any district nga, mm, p.1b1. co1u·t more than one term in a year; and it shall be sufficient cause of challenge to an juror called to be sworn m any cause that he has been summonetf and attended said court as a j1u•or at any term of ‘ said court held within one year prior to the time of such challenge. · Perempwry chai- Sec. 287. When the offense c arged is treason or a capital offense, l°iig¤°¤ii»e¤· sixewea. the defendant shall be entitled to twenty and the United States to K&·°°°·“°· Fm- six perempto challenges. On the trial of any other felony, the defendant shg be entitled to ten and the United States to six · peremptorv challenges; and in all other cases, civil and criminal, each party shall be entitled to three peremptory challenges; and in all cases where there are several defendants or several plaintiffs, the parties on each side shall be deemed a sirigle party for the pu1l·poses of all challenges under this section. All ch enges, whether to the array _ - or panel, or to individual jurors forcause or favor, shall be tried by the coiért withoufu the aid of triers. f b » - I I 1¤¤s¤¤1i¤¤¤¤¤¤¤.i¤ no. 288. any prosecution or am, am or unlawfu Wifliifnzilyiiisiilf cohabitation, under any statute of theuUnit5dd lgieisis, iflrhhall be sufficient capsp of challenge to any person drawn or summoned as a jury- man or a esman— uvms in www First, that he is or has been living in the ractice of b' am ol - °I P°l"°m" °t°‘ amy, or unlawful cohabitation with more thian one womlfn, oiihhatyllige Vol- 22. 1>.3r IS or has been guilty of an offense punishable either by sections one or three of an Act entitled "An Act to amend section fifty-three hundred . and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference · mk S., sec. 5852. r- tp bigamyl, and for other purposes/’ approved March twenty-second, erghteen undred and egg ty-two, or y section fifty-three hundred vox. 12, p. 501. and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or the Act of duly first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An `Act to plunish and prevent the practice of golygamy in the Territories of the nited States and other places, an disapproving and ammlling certain Acts of the legislative assembly of the territory of Utah"; or mgegives in mlm- _ Second, that he believes it right for a_man to have more than one ' living  ·ll11d1VOI°C6fl wife at the same time, or to live in the practice of co iabiting with more than one woman. ¤¤¤¤¤¤s¤¤ Any person appearing or offered as a juror or talesman, and challenged on either o_f the foregoing grounds, ma be uestioned on his oat 1 as to the existence of any such cause ofychalillenge; and other elxggpnce may gxiimtrodiuied beprpfiupon gh; qulpstion raised by such c enge; an is ques ion s ia e trne the court. e,gfi¤¤¤¤¤*we¤W¤· But as to the first ground of challenge befofh mentioned, the person challenged shall not be bound to answer if he shall say upon his oath that he declines on the ground that his answer may tend to criininate himself; and if he shall answer as to said first ground, his answer shall not be given in evidence in any criminal prosecution against him for any offense above named; but 1f he declines to answer on any ground he shall be rejected as incompetent. ’