Ordinance No 12 of 1867.
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Acting Attorney General's Report
The provisions of Ordinance No 9 of 1866 have been too much canvassed both in this Colony and at Home that I see no reason why at an early day should not be fixed for bringing this Ordinance into operation.
Section 7 seems to me the only clause which calls for explanation. The object of its introduction was to relieve the doubts which existed in the mind of the Chief Justice as to whether Ordinance No 7 of 1866 dispensed with a Jury. It certainly was intended at the time of the passing of the Ordinance that the High Court should have jurisdiction to try the offences therein enumerated without the intervention of a jury and but for the suggestion of the Chief Justice