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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 646-JUNE 25, 1948 § 1862. Exemptions The following persons shall be exempt from jury service: (1) Members in active service in the armed forces of the United States. (2) Members of the Fire or Police departments of any State, Dis- trict, Territory, Possession or subdivision thereof. (3) Public officers in the executive, legislative or judicial branches of the government of the United States, or any State, District, Terri- tory, or Possession or subdivision thereof who are actively engaged in the performance of official duties. § 1863. Exclusion or excuse from service (a) A district judge for good cause may excuse or exclude from jury service any person called as a juror. (b) Any class or group of persons may, for the public interest, be excluded from the jury panel or excused from service as jurors by order of the district judge based on a finding that such jury service would entail undue hardship, extreme inconvenience or serious obstruction or delay in the fair and impartial administration of justice. (c) No citizen shall be excluded from service as grand or petit juror in any court of the United States on account of race or color. § 1864. Manner of drawing; jury commissioners and their com- pensation The names of grand and petit jurors shall be publicly drawn from a box containing the names of not less than three hundred qualified persons at the time of each drawing. The jury box shall from time to time be refilled by the clerk of court, or his deputy, and a jury commissioner, appointed by the court. Such jury commissioner shall be a citizen of good standing, residing in the district and a well known member of the principal political party in the district, opposing that to which the clerk, or his deputy then acting, may belong. He shall receive $5 per day for each day neces- sarily employed in the performance of his duties. The jury commissioner and the clerk, or his deputy, shall alternately place one name in the jury box without reference to party affiliations, until the box shall contain at least 300 names or such larger number as the court determines. This section shall not apply to the District of Columbia. § 1865. Apportionment within district; additional jury commis- sioners (a) Grand and petit jurors shall from time to time be selected from such parts of the district as the court directs so as to be most favorable to an impartial trial, and not to incur unnecessary expense or unduly burden the citizens of any part of the district with jury service. To this end the court may direct the maintenance of separate jury boxes for some or all of the places for holding court in the district and may appoint a jury commissioner for each such place. (b) Grand or petit jurors summoned for service at one place for holding court in a district may, if the public convenience so requires and the jurors will not be unduly burdened thereby, be directed to serve at another place in the same district. § 1866. Special petit juries; talesmen from bystanders Whenever sufficient petit jurors are not available, the court may order a special jury to be drawn or may require the United States marshal to summon a sufficient number of talesmen from the by- standers. 952 [62 STAT.

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