THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH AUGUST, 1864.
respectively either added to or struck off from the said List, upon Cause duly assigned in such Notice; and the Registrar immediately after the Expiration of the Time for posting such List, shall forward the same, and such Notices as may be so served on him, to the Clerk of the Legislative Council, to the end that the Governor with the Advice of the Council (and he and they are hereby empowered so to do) may strike off or add such name or names from among those of the said Inhabitants as to the said Governor and Council may appear fit, and the said List when so approved of or altered, shall be returned to the Registrar by the Clerk of the Council and called the "Jurors' List," and shall be in force until the First Day of March which shall be in the year next ensuing, that in which such return shall have been made.
IX. Every Jury List in force within the Colony shall contain the Surnames of all men who shall be qualified and liable to serve on Juries together with the Christian or other names by which such Persons are usually known, whether such names shall have been delivered in writing in accordance with the provisions in the Section last aforesaid or have been inserted therein by the Sheriff or by the Governor and Legis- lative Council.
Jury List.
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for neglect of Duty.
X. If the Sheriff or other Minister or Officer shall wilfully insert or omit in the Penalty on Sheriff List of Jurors the name of any man which ought not to be so inserted or omitted according to the List of Jurors so to be made out as aforesaid, or shall fail to sign and transmit a correct Copy of such List to the Registrar as hereinbefore directed, or shall otherwise fail well and truly to do and perform all and every the Acts, Matters and Things, hereby required to be by him performed, such Sheriff or other Minister or Officer, shall be fined at the discretion of the Court.
XI. On or before the first day of February in each Year, the Sheriff shall make Jury List to be in out and transmit a fresh July List, in Manner and Form as hereinbefore directed; and use for One Year. such fresh Jury List, when so transmitted, and approved of or altered as aforesaid, shall be brought into use the First Day of March then next following, and shall continue to be used for one Year.
XII. When the Jury List shall be completed and returned to the Registrar, he shall cause the Names therein to be written on separate Cards and placed in a Ballot Box to be kept for that purpose, and whenever it shall be requisite to summon a Jury, the Sheriff shall attended at the Registrar's Office and in the presence of him or his Deputy draw from the said Box Eighteen and at Criminal Sessions Thirty of the said names to form a Panel and the Cards so drawn shall thereupon be locked up in a separate Box therein to remain until the entire of the Names in the Ballot Box shall be exhausted by subsequent Panels, when all the names of the Jurors shall be returned to the Ballot Box, if required, for the purposes of the current year, and in such Case the Names shall again be redrawn in manner aforesaid.
Manner of forming
Panel.
For Summoning
XIII. The Sheriff shall, before the Sitting of any Court whereat a Jury shall be necessary, issue summonses according to the Form in the Schedule (B,) hereunto Juries. annexed requiring the Attendance thereat of the Persons so drawn from the Ballot Box, and every such Summons shall be personally served upon, or left at the usual Place of Abode of, the Person so summoned Two clear Days before the Day appointed for the Sitting of the Court.
XIV. The Sheriff shall also, at the same time, cause to be delivered to the Registrar, Deputy Registrar or Clerk of the Court, a Panel containing the names, places of Abode, and Additions, of the Persons so summoned.
Panel,
attendance.
XV. If any Juror having been duly served with such Summons, shall fail to Penalty for Non- attend, or being present shall not appear when called, or after appearance shall with- draw himself without the Permission of the Court, the Court shall, unless some reasonable excuse be proved on Oath or Affidavit or otherwise to the Satisfaction of the Court, set upon the Person so making Default such Fine, not exceeding the Sum of One Hundred Dollars, as to the said Court shall seem meet.
for.
XVI. At the Sitting of the Court the Names of all the Jurors summoned shall be Jury to be balloted written on separate pieces of Card of equal Size and put into a Box, and the Registrar, Deputy Registrar or Clerk of the said Court shall, in open Court draw therefrom until Seven Jurors appear, who, after all just causes of challenge allowed shall remain as fair and indifferent, and the same shall be done whenever it shall be necessary to form a new Jury.