Donghong.
No S S
18th
Graverma
July
872.
Sir Arthur Kennedy, Home, B
to
The Right Honorable The Earl of Kimberley
of Kimberlay
Pierst.
Superintendent of the Govt. at the principal
Draws attention to the salary of the - which is
by fees...
Suggests
per
annum
supplemented
increase of £200 to be given in
view of fees.
ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1868.
Jurors and Juries.
Sir Richard GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 7 of 1868.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for amending the Laws relative to Jurors and Juries.
[23rd May, 1868.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws relative to
Jurors and Juries:-Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
Title.
Preamble.
I. There shall be added to Section XII of Ordinance No. 11
of 1864, the words following, that is to say:-" Provided always
that it shall be lawful for the Registrar to open the Ballot Box
and draw fresh Names therefrom as often as may be necessary to
secure the full Number of Thirty Jurors at the Criminal Sessions."
Section 12 of
Ordinance No.
11 of 1864
amended by
Registrar may
open Box in order to secure requisite number.
II. Section XXII of Ordinance No. 11 of 1864, is hereby
repealed, and the words following shall be substituted for such
Section, and shall be henceforth read as if the same had been
originally inserted therein:-"After the Jury in any case shall
have been sworn, or charged with any Prisoner, they shall be kept
in some convenient Place in Court apart by themselves,
retirement of individual Jurors for personal purposes only excepted,
and then in charge of an Officer of the Court, until the Chief Justice
or other presiding Judge has summed up the Evidence, and has left
the case with the Jury. Provided that in case and as often as the
Court shall adjourn before the case shall have been so left with the
Jury, then such Jury may as often as the Court shall direct be removed
in charge of an Officer of the Court to some convenient Place there
to take refreshment and rest until the Court shall re-assemble and
such Officer shall be sworn that he will suffer none save himself to
speak to or to communicate with them without the express leave of
the Court. If after the case shall have been so left to the Jury, any
such Jury shall desire to withdraw for the purpose of considering
their Verdict, then they shall be kept by such Officer of the Court
in some convenient Place apart by themselves with power to retire
alone only for personal purposes until they are agreed upon their
Verdict, or be discharged therefrom by the Court; and the Officer
shall be sworn that he will suffer none to have access to them, or
speak to them, and that he will not speak to them himself except to
ask whether they are agreed upon
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