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Qualification of special jurors.
Sheriff to make out jury lists, and transmit same to Registrar.
Penalty on sheriff for neglect of duty.
Jury list to be in use for one year.
Order of summoning juries.
Summons.
ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1845.
Jurors.
4. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every male person between the ages of twenty-one years and sixty years, being of sound mind, and not afflicted with deafness, blindness, or other infirmity, who shall be an esquire or person of higher degree, or who shall carry on the trade or business of a banker or merchant within the said Colony of Hongkong, and who shall reside within the same, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a special juror therein: Provided, that no person who is herein before exempted from serving as a common juror shall be liable to serve on any special jury.
5. And be it further enacted and ordained, that from and immediately after the publication of this Ordinance, the sheriff of the said Colony of Hongkong shall make or cause to be made out, two separate and distinct lists, in alphabetical order, of all men who shall be qualified and liable to serve as common or special jurors as aforesaid, setting forth the christian and surnames of each at full length, together with his place of abode, and shall sign and transmit copies of such lists to the Registrar of the said Supreme Court, which lists, when so transmitted, shall be called respectively the "Common Jurors List," and the "Special Jurors List," and shall be in use until the first day of March, 1846.
6. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if any sheriff, or other minister, or officer shall wilfully insert or omit, in the lists of jurors, the name of any man which ought not to be so inserted or omitted, according to the lists of jurors so to be made out as aforesaid, or shall fail to sign and transmit correct copies of such lists to the said Registrar as herein before 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 said Court.
7. And be it further enacted and ordained, that on or before the first day of January which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and on or before the first day of January in each and every subsequent year, the said sheriff shall make out and transmit two fresh jury lists, in manner and form as hereinbefore directed; and all such fresh jury lists, when so transmitted, shall be brought into use the first day of March then next following, and shall continue to be used for one year then next ensuing.
8. And be it further enacted and ordained, that whenever it shall be requisite to summon a jury, the sheriff shall summon the persons whose names shall appear on the jury list, in the order in which they shall be placed; and at the commencement of every year, he shall begin with the names in the new list next after the names of the persons who were last summoned in the preceding year.
9. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the sheriff shall, before the sitting of any Court whereat a jury shall be necessary, issue summonses according to the form in the schedule hereunto annexed, requiring the attendance thereat of eighteen