§ MR. MACLIVERasked Mr. Attorney General, If certain of Her Majesty's Judges having decided in favour of the exemption of volunteer officers from serving as jurymen, he will give a definition of the Law on the subject, in 254 order that sheriffs may have a distinct rule to guide them?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES),in reply, said, that the liability to serve on juries was controlled by the Act of 1870. In the Schedule of that Act officers of the Navy, Army, Militia, and Yeomanry were exempted from such service when on full pay. The words of the Act did not exempt Volunteer officers, and he did not know of any reason why they should be exempted. He presumed that the cases in which Judges had decided in favour of the exemption of Volunteers were cases of officers in camp, or otherwise on service. It would be the duty of the officials of the Courts to summon officers placed in that position to appear; and on their appearance, no doubt, the learned Judges would listen favourably to any reasonable appeal for exemption.