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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 137,161. 1880. 167 court of the District of Columbia holding a term of the circuit court for said District (whenever the condition of the business in such circuit court and in the criminal court, in the opinion of the general term of said supreme court, may render it proper and expedient so to do), may hold sittin gs for the trial of such criminal cases depending in the criminal court as the justice presiding therein may assign for that purpose, and may employ the petit juries drawn for such circuit court for such trials; . and such sittmgs may be held during the regular sessions of tl ;e criminal court, or, in_the recess thereof, during the term of such circuit court; and the business done at such sittings shall be recorded in the minutes of the criminal court. Sec. 2. That section eight hundred and sixty-one of chapter twenty- R. S. D. C. 861. four of the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia be, and the ’ same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " Sec. 861. It shall be good cause of principal challenge to any person called to serve as a talesman on a petit jury at any term of the criminal or circuit courts of the District of Columbia, that he has served as such juror in the trial of a cause in either of said courts at any time within one year next before his being so called and challenged. And whenever a paper, on which is written the name of any person, shall be drawn from the jury-box, and such person by reason of being challenged, or for any other reason, shall not serve as a juror at the term for or at which he shall have been so drawn, the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia (unless otherwise ordered by the justice presiding in the court for which such name was drawn) shall replace the said paper in the jury-box, folded or rolled up in the manner prescribed by section eight hundred and fifty-three of said chapter, subject to be drawn again from said jury-box with the other papers therein." Sec. 3. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith are herewith Repeals. repealed. Approved, June 8, 1880. CHAP. 16]..-An act to amend sections thi.rty-th.ree hundred and eighty-five and June 9, 1880. thirty-three hundred and fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States. ——-—-—--—··· ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-three hun. R. S. 3385, dred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States be Am°”d"’d· amended by striking out all of said section after the word “ shipment" where it occurs in the twenty-seventh line, and insert in lieu of the part stricken out the following: "Upon the presentation to the collector of internal revenue of a detailed report from the inspector of customs, and a certificate from the collector of customs at the port from which the goods are to be exported, that the goods removed from the manufactory under bond, and described in the permit of the collector of internal revenue, have been received by the said collector of customs, and that said goods were duly laden on board of a foreign-bound vessel, naming the vessel, and the said merchandise was entered on the outward-manifest of said vessel, and that said vessel and cargo were duly cleared from said port, and on the payment of the tax on deficiency, if any, the bonds which have been, or shall hereafter be, required to be given under the provisions of this section, shall be canceled. h_ b_ t Every person who, with the intent to defraud the revenue laws of the 1311;%; 1 oipztggé United States, relands or causes to be relanded, with1u the jurisdiction ,mb,wc§, &c_ of the United States, any manufactured tobacco, snuff, or cigars winch have been shipped for exportation under the provisions of this act, without properly entering such tobacco, snud, or cigars at a custom—house, and paying the proper customs and internal-reyenue taxes thereon, or who receives such relanded tobacco, snuff, or cigars, and every person who aids or abets in such relanding or receiving of such tobacco, snuff,