Provincial Courts to be
or by Acting Consuls
or Vie-Consuis.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
tained, may from time to time temporarily attach to the Supreme Court any persons holding appointments as Consuls or Vice-Consuls. Every person so attached shall discharge such duties in connexion with the Court as the Judge from time to time, with the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, directs, and shall have the like power and authority as the Assistant Judge or Law Secretary has, according as in each case the nature of the duties directed to be discharged by the person so attached may require.
II.-The Provincial Courts.
25. Each of Her Majesty's Consuls-General, Consuls, and Vice- held by Consuls or View: Consuls (holding a commission as such from Her Majesty) resident in China or in Japan (with the exception of Her Majesty's Consuls at Shanghai, and with such other exceptions as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State at any time thinks fit to make), or any person acting temporarily, with the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State or of Her Majesty's Minister in China or in Japan, as and for a Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul, so com- missioned as aforesaid,-shall for and in his own Consular district, hold and form a Court styled Her Britannic Majesty's Court at Canton, or as the case may be,-hereafter in this Order called a Provincial Court.
Beal.
Qualifications of jurors.
Exemptions.
Making of jury list.
Each Provincial Court shall have a seal bearing its style and such device as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time directs.
IV. JURIES. ASSESSORS.
26. Every male British subject resident in China or in Japan,- being of the age of 21 years or upwards,-being able to speak and read English, having or earning a gross income at the rate of not less than 250 dollars a year,--not having been attainted of treason or felony, or convicted of any crime that is infamous (unless he has obtained a free pardon).—and not being under outlawry,—shall be qualified to serve on a jury.
27. All persons so qualified shall be liable so to serve, except the following:-
Persons in Her Majesty's Diplomatic, Consular, or other Civil
service in actual employment;
Officers, clerks, keepers of prisons, messengers, and other persons attached to or in the service of any of Her Majesty's Courts; Officers and others on full pay in Her Majesty's Navy or Army, or in actual employment in the service of any Department connected therewith:
Persons holding appolotuents in the Civil service, and Commis- sioned Officers in the Naval or Military service, of the Emperor of China or of the 1,coon of Japan;
Clergymen and minuters in the actual discharge of professional
duties;
Advocates and attorneys in actual practice;
Physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries in actual practice; And except persons disabled by mental or bodily infirmity.
28. On or before the 14:h day of September, in the year 1865, and on or before the 14th day of January in every subsequent year, each Court shall make out a list of the persons so qualified and liable, resident within its district.
The list shall, on or before the 21st day of the same respective month, be affixed in some conspicuous place in the Court, and shall be there exhibited until the end of that month, with a notice annexed
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