NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 285

HOUSE BILL 388

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 9-5 TO FIX THE COMPENSATION OF JURORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF BLADEN COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That G. S. 9-5, as the same presently appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1B of the General Statutes, be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following sentences:

"Provided, however, that in Bladen County all jurors summoned for service in the Superior Court shall receive for their services the sum of six dollars ($6.00) per day. In addition, all jurors in Bladen County shall receive a travel allowance of seven cents (7¢) per mile while coming to the county seat and returning home, the distance to be computed by the usual route of public travel; provided that this allowance shall be paid on the basis of one round trip per calendar week for each calendar week in which attendance is required."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective July 15, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of April, 1961.