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exempted
Clerks of the China Submarine Telegraph Company may be exempt in Hongkong from serving on Juries,
I regret to have to report that there is little prospect of being able to
the Clerks referred to the
and
obtain for relief sought for during
nine months.
the ensuing
2. By Ordinance No. 11 of 1864 the List is revised by the Legislative Council on some day prior to the set
Jury
March in each
and on
last occasion consideration was
the
given
to the application of the
of the Manager of the Company that the Clerks in the Telegraph Office should be struck out of the List. I informed the
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Government at the same time that
in the Straits Settlements and India
the Telegraph employés
serve as
Jurors.
were not liable to
3. Of this latter fact the Governor-in-Council had no knowledge, and after discussion,
the Council declined to accede to the
application.
4. The matter has therefore passed
out of the hands of the Council, as by the Ordinance already quoted, the Court alone in its discretion has power to
exempt any
Person
or Persons from
serving as a Juror, and seeing Acting Chief Justice, a Member of the Council, was present, and objected to the
request being granted, there is