NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 749
HOUSE BILL 798

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 9‑25 RELATING TO GRAND JURIES IN CHATHAM COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 9‑25, as the same appears in the 1957 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph relating to grand juries in Chatham County:
"At the first term of court for the trial of criminal cases in Chatham County, after the first day of July, 1959, there shall be chosen a grand jury as now provided by law. The first nine members of said grand jury shall serve for a term of one year and until their successors are chosen and qualified, and the second nine members of said grand jury shall serve for a term of six months and until their successors are chosen and qualified. Thereafter, at the first regular criminal term of Superior Court after the first day of January and the first day of July of each year, there shall be chosen nine members of the said grand jury to serve for a term of one year and until their successors are chosen and qualified. The foreman of the grand jury shall be chosen originally from the members serving a term of one year, and, thereafter, the foreman shall be chosen from the group which has served as grand juror for six months to serve for six months."
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1959.