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CHAPTER 622 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURT IN BATH TOWNSHIP IN BEAUFORT COUNTY, AND TO PRE- SCRIBE THE JURISDICTION THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
In every case of which the recorder may have final jurisdiction, the defendant, upon demand therefor, shall be entitled to a trial by jury, but before making such demand the defendant must have pleaded not guilty to the warrant or indictment, and such demand must be: made before evidence is offered. The procedure in said court upon demand for a jury, as aforesaid, shall be the same, as nearly as may be, as is now provided by law for a jury in the courts of justices of the peace, and the costs taxable against the defendant therefor shall be the same as in courts of justices of the peace, except that jurors shall each receive fifty cents per day and mileage; and in case of conviction, the defendant shall be taxed with a jury tax of three dollars, which sum shall be deposited when demand for a jury is made.