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Summons to juror. Sec. 80.

Process for summoning defendant on indictment &c. Sec. 93.

ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1844.

Supreme Court.

stating shortly the nature of the action) on the part of the plaintiff (or defendant) and this you, or any of you shall by no means omit, under the penalty, upon each of you of one hundred dollars.

Witness The Honorable John Walter Hulme, Our Chief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria,

G. H. No. Street, Victoria, Plaintiff's Attorney (or if the plaintiff sue in person)

A. B. of Plaintiff.

the day of Year of our Reign,

Mr. A. B.

SCHEDULE (No. 7.) Sec. 80. Summons to Juror.

You are hereby summoned to appear as a (either common or special, as the case may be,) juror at the Supreme Court to be holden at Wellington Terrace in this Colony, on the day of next and there to attend from day to day until you shall be discharged from the said Court.

(Signed) W. C., Sheriff.

N. B.-The penalty for disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars in the case of a common juror or two hundred dollars in the case of a special juror.

SCHEDULE (No. 8.) Sec. 93. Process for Summoning defendant on Indictment or Information.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to the Sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong, or his lawful Deputy, Greeting

We command you that you summon (the defendant, or defendants following the description in the indictment or information,) that he (she, or they) appear before our Supreme Court of the said Colony, at the session of the said Court, to be holden in and for the said Colony, at Victoria, on the next, and following days, there to answer to a certain indictment or information preferred or, to be preferred, filed, or to be filed, against him, (her, or them) by our Attorney General in our behalf (or when the prosecution is at the instance of a private party or private parties describing the prosecutor or prosecutors as in the indictment or information) and not to depart until he (she, or they) be discharged in due course of law;-and serve upon the said defendant (or upon each of the said defendants) a copy of the said indictment or information, and the notice of trial indorsed on the same, or annexed thereto, and return on that day to the Registrar of the Court this writ, with whatsoever you have done thereupon.

Witness The Honorable John Walter Hulme, Chief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria, the day of in the Year of our Lord 1844.

Notice of trial, &c. C. D.

SCHEDULE (No. 9.) Sec. 94. Notice of Trial of Indictment or Information.

Take notice that you will be tried on this indictment (or information or on the indictment or information whereof this is a true copy) at the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court, to be holden at Victoria, in and for the Colony of Hongkong, on the day of

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