ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1868.
Jurors and Juries.
upon their Verdict or to communicate between them and the Court; Provided always that the provisions in this Section contained shall be obligatory only in cases of Capital Felonies and that in the discretion of the Court such of the foregoing provisions as to the Court may seem fit may be dispensed with in other cases of Felonies and in all cases of Misdemeanours."
III. There shall be added to Section XXIII of Ordinance Amending Section 29 of No. 11 of 1864, the Words following, that is to say: "Provided always that the Court may in case of any adjournment, in its discretion, allow the Jury to separate for such time and subject to such conditions as to the Court may seem fit."
IV. On the 1st Day of March in each Year, the Superintendent of Police or his Deputy shall cause the Names in the Jury List for the Year to be written on separate cards and to be placed in a Ballot Box to be kept for that purpose, and whenever it shall be necessary to summon a Coroner's Jury the Superintendent of Police or his Deputy shall draw from the said Box, Six of the said Names to form a Panel, and the cards so drawn shall thereupon be locked up in a separate Box therein to remain until the entire Number of the names in the Ballot Box shall be exhausted by subsequent Panels, when all the Names of the Jurors shall be returned to the Ballot Box, if required, for the Purposes of the current Year, and in such case the Names shall be redrawn in Manner aforesaid. Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Police or his Deputy to open the Ballot Box and draw fresh Names therefrom as often as may be necessary to secure the full Number of Three Jurors at an Inquest.
V. The Superintendent of Police or such other Officer as shall from Time to Time be appointed for the purpose by the Governor, shall before the sitting of a Coroner's Court whereat a Jury shall be necessary, issue Summonses according to the Form in the Schedule hereunto annexed, requiring the Attendance of the Persons so drawn from the Ballot Box, and every such Summons shall be personally served upon or left at the usual place of Abode of the Person so summoned,
VI. The Coroner is hereby empowered to remit Fines imposed by him on Jurors for non-attendance on sufficient cause being shewn and is also empowered to adjourn Inquests from Time to Time and to use the same Jury for a Second Inquest should he consider it necessary.
VII. The Superintendent of the Civil Hospital in the absence of the Colonial Surgeon or such other Medical Officer as may be appointed by the Governor for that duty shall, on receiving a dead body make a preliminary examination thereof, and report to the Coroner who shall, if necessary direct a Post Mortem Examination to be held when a further report of the cause of death must be forwarded to the Coroner.
VIII. The Coroner is further hereby empowered to direct Payment of a Fee of $10 for any Post Mortem Examination made by a duly qualified Medical Practitioner undertaken by order of the Coroner, and also to direct Payment of the Sum of $5 for the attendance at an Inquest of any duly qualified Medical Practitioner whose evidence the Coroner may consider it expedient to take.
IX. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall hereafter be fixed by Proclamation under the Hand of the Governor.*
SCHEDULE.
SUMMONS OF JURORS TO CORONER'S COURT.
Mr. A. B.
You are hereby summoned to appear as a Juror at the Coroner's Court to be holden at
in this Colony on the
day of
at the hour of
o'clock in the
noon, and there to attend until you shall be discharged from the Court.
(Signed,) C. D.
Coroner,
N.B. The Penalty for Disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars. Personal Service of this Summons is not necessary to subject a Party summoned to the Penalty for Disobedience.
* In force from 6th June, 1868 by Proclamation of 6th June, 1868.
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