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SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 125. 1921. 1311 ing, or as hereafter modified, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and shall have the same power to instruct `uries, set aside verdicts, arrest judgments and grant new trials as said Supreme ourt. ' Sec. 4. That jurors for said Municipal Court shall be drawn and mSf’1°°t‘°“ °’ l""°'S’ selected under and in pursuance of the laws now obtainin , or as hereafter modified, concerning the drawing, selection, term og service and mode of Hlling deficiencies in a panel and shall be subject to the same duties and liabilities, and shall receive the same compensation as petit jurors in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, as fully as if such laws directly referred to said Municipal Court, _ excepting that in said Municipal Court there may be an additional ,0,’}§§j“°“‘*‘ mm '“` term of service to begin on the Erst Tuesday in August of each year, _ _ and to terminate on the first Tuesda of October. Section 73 of ${,ljf§€‘;{°f§fff’“· the Code of Law of the District of Columbia, relaf to bills of exceptions, shall apply to said Municipal Court as $51 as to the Dum mms Supreme Court of the District of Co umbia. At least ten days aneapfgsiis. ` be ore the term of service of jurors shall begin, the clerk of the said Supreme Court shall certify to the said Municipal Court, for service as jurors for the then ensuin term, the names of not to exceed _ _ thirty-six persons, drawn as irected by law. Deiciencies in any Fm“‘gd°“"*°“°‘°s· pane of any such jury may be filled according to the law applicable to jurors in said Supreme Court, and for this p ose any judge of said Mrmicipal Court shall possess all the powersudfia judge of said Supglelme Court and of said court sitting as a stpoecial term. Additionalimom 0, enever the judges of the Municipal urt shall certify in ¢¤¤i¤¤¤•¤<>f<=•>¤¤· writing that the business of said court requires the services of additional jurors and shall file a certificate to that effect in the office of the clerk of the Su reme Court of the -District of Columbia, said Supreme Court shall t the clerk of the said Supreme Court to certify to said Municipal Court for service as `urors for the then ensuing terms the names of such number of other persons as may be necessary for such service, which names shall be drawn as dimcmd by law- rmiswieumimuy Sec. 5. That if neither lparty shall demand a trial by jury, or if ° the value in controversy s all not exceed $20, the case magnbe tried and determined by any judgle of the court, and his iin g upon the facts, which may e eit er general or special, shall have the same effect as a verdict of a. jury, with the same right of either party to take an exception to any ruling of the court, and have the same embodied in a bill of exceptions, as in case of a `ury trial. Judgments in mm Sec. 6. That all judgments hereafter entered by said itiunicipal mm; years. Court shall remain in orce for six years and no longer, unless the same shall have been docketed in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia as provided by existing Tom sum H mb law, in which event they shall be liens as is provided by Chapter etedinsupreme wm. XXXVIII of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia for V°‘·“‘·*’·”8‘· jubdgments of justices of the peace. No judgment shall become a ` n upon any lands, tenements, or hereditaments until so docketed. Sm 0, mm; Sec. 7. That nonresidents of the District of Columbia may com- acm. mance suits in said Municipal Court without first giving security for S°"“’“"’°' °°°‘*"· costs, but upon motion may be required to give suc security m V0, 31 P m9_ gurauance o section 175 o the Code of Law for the District of ' ° Sec. 8. That rtipon satisfactory evidence being presented to_the court or one of e judges thereof that the plaintiff in any suit is indigent and unable to make deposit of costs, such court or judge ma , in its or his discretion, permit the prosecution of such suit without the prepayment or deposit of costs.