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12. The Magistrate may adjourn any enquiryfrom time to Adjourn ments
time, and may, if he consider it necessary, use the same jury 7(7 of68,6. ]
for a second enquiry.
13. The Magistrate shall have, in relation to the enquiries Powers of
provided for in sections 6 and 7 the same powers in all respects Magistrate.
as he possesses or may possess in relation to any other
proceedings taken before him, and may, at the conclusion of any
such enquiry, commit any person for trial at the Supreme Court
without further proceedings before himself or any otber Magis
trate .
14. The Magistrate shall not order the interment of the body Burials.
of any person otherwise than in some public cemetery within c(45
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ss. 46 V;
2, 4.]
the Colony, and in the ordinary and customary manner in
which persons of the same nationality are commonly interred,
provided always that this section shall not be so construed as
to require the performance of any religious rite at the interment
of the body of any person buried by order of a Magistrate under
this ordinance, or to alter the laws and usages relating to religious
ceremonies at the burial of such persons.
15. No inquisition shall be necessary in any enquiry by a Inquisition
Magistrate under this ordinance, and no committal under this abolished .
ordinance by any Magistrate shall be held to be bad on the
ground thatno inquisition was drawn up.
16. Any person who may have been committed for trial at Copies of
the Supreme Court by any Magistrate under this ordinance on depositions.
[22 V. c. 33.
a charge of murder or manslaughter shall be entitled to have at 8.3.)
any time from the Magistrates' clerk copies of the depositions
on which such committal shall have been made, on payment of
a reasonable sum for the same, not exceeding five cents for
every folio of pinety words.
17. When any person shall be committed for trial at the Trial &c.
Supreme Court by a Magistrate under this ordinance on a charge when carasout
of murder or manslaughter, or as accessory before the fact to of the Colony.
any murder, in any case in which the cause of the death enquired s. 3. ;) c. 12.
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into did not arise within the Colony , the Magistrate, the Judges
and officers of the Supreme Court , and all other persons or
authorities shall have the same powers respectively for the
commitment of, trial of, and execution of the sentence upon the
person so charged as they now or hereafter may by law possess
in relation to the commitment of, trial of, and execution of the
sentence upon any person committed and tried for murder or
manslaughter where thecause of death arose within the Colony.
18. The following fees shall be payable to any duly qualified Fees for
medical practitioner not an officer of the Government of the medicale .
Colony who has made any autopsy in pursuance of an order (7 of68,8.]