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May Term, 1854. ss. May 15, 1854.
GRAND-JURY.
| 1 | Sworn. | Isaac Tower, | Randolph, | Foreman. |
| 2 | " | Elbridge G. Manning, | Andover. | |
| 3 | " | Asa Angier, | " | |
| 4 | " | Ballard Lovejoy, | " | |
| 5 | " | Levi Eldridge, | Chatham. | |
| 6 | " | Isaac B. Young, | " | |
| 7 | " | Josiah Peterson, | Duxbury. | |
| 8 | " | James Curtis, | " | |
| 9 | Not Sworn. | William Amory, | Boston, | Excused first day. Member of the bar. |
| 10 | Sworn. | James P. Bush, | " | Absent June 28th. |
| 11 | " | John Clark, | " | |
| 12 | " | Charles H. Mills, | " | |
| 13 | " | William N. Tyler, | " | |
| 14 | " | Samuel Weltch, | " | |
| 15 | " | Reuben Nichols, | Reading. | |
| 16 | " | Benjamin M. Boyce, | " | |
| 17 | " | Ephraim F. Belcher, | Randolph. | |
| 18 | " | Thomas S. Brimblecome, | Fairhaven. | |
| 19 | " | Obed F. Hitch, | " | |
| 20 | " | Lowell Claflin, | Hopkinton. | |
| 21 | " | William Durant, | Leominster. | |
| 22 | " | Charles Grant, | " | |
| 23 | " | Jeremiah B. Luther, | Douglas. |
On the 7th of June, Judge Curtis gave to this Grand-Jury his charge.[2] In that he spoke of the enforcement of the fugitive slave bill; and he charged the Jury especially and minutely upon the Statute of the United States of 1790, in relation to resisting officers in service of process as follows.
That not only those who are present and actually obstruct, resist, and oppose, and all who are present leagued in the common design, and so situated as to be able in case of need, to afford assistance to those actually engaged; but all who, though absent, did procure, counsel, command, or abet others to commit the offence; and all who, by indirect means, by evincing an express liking, approbation, or assent to the design, were liable as principals. And he added, "My instruction to you is, that language addressed to persons who immediately afterwards commit an offence, actually intended by the speaker to incite those addressed to commit it, and adapted thus to incite them, is such a counselling, or advising to the crime as the law contemplates, and the person so inciting others is liable to be indicted as a principal," and it is of no importance that his advice or directions were departed from in respect to the time, or place, or precise mode, or means of committing it.
That Jury remained in session a few weeks: pains were taken to induce them to find bills against the speakers at Faneuil Hall; but they found no indictment under the law of 1790, or that of 1850; they were discharged.
On the 22d of September, venires were issued by order of the Court for a new Grand-Jury; and, on the 16th of October, twenty-three were returned by Marshal Freeman, and impanelled. Here is the list of new Grand-Jurors:—
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October Term, 1854. ss. October 16, 1854.