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Persons possessed of an annual salary or income not less than five hundred dollars, resident within the Colony, (with certain exceptions) to be qualified and liable to serve as common Jurors.
ORDINANCES Nos. 4 AND 5 OF 1849.
Jurors-Panel.
Examination of Witnesses before Commissioners.
No. 4 of 1849.
An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No. 7 of 1845, entitled "An Ordinance for the Regulation of Jurors and Juries."
[7th June, 1849.]
WHEREAS under the present provisions of the said Ordinance No. 7 of 1845, considerable difficulty has been experienced in supplying an adequate panel of common jurors within the Colony:
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that every male person who shall be in the receipt of an annual salary or income of not less than five hundred dollars per annum within the said Colony of Hongkong, and who shall reside within the same, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a common juror therein; and that the provision of the second section of the said Ordinance No. 7 of 1845, requiring such income or salary to be of the full annual amount of one thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as respects the amount of qualification exceeding the said annual sum of five hundred dollars. But it is hereby declared and provided, that nothing herein contained shall render any person liable to serve as a juror who can claim exemption or may not be so liable under the said second section of the said Ordinance No. 7 of 1845.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1851.]
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No. 5 of 1849.
An Ordinance to Facilitate the Examination of Witnesses in certain Cases before Commissioners in the Colony of Hongkong.
[7th June, 1849.]
WHEREAS by the Consular Ordinance No. 1 of 1849, entitled "An Ordinance for the better obtaining of Evidence in the Consular Courts in China, and to amend Ordinance No. 3 of 1847, entitled, ‘An Ordinance to authorize Her Majesty's Consular officers to adjudicate in Civil Actions,'" it has been enacted and ordained, amongst other things, that Her Majesty's Consuls or Vice-Consuls resident at the ports in China may, under certain circumstances, issue a commission for the examination on interrogatories of any witness or witnesses resident within the Colony of Hongkong, or at any place within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, not being a Consular port; and that, in the event of any such witness or witnesses refusing to appear before such Commissioners for the purpose of examination, it shall and may be lawful for any party in the suit or action to apply by petition, duly verified by affidavit, to the Chief Justice