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which Petty Iurors are also summoned. Should the above suggestion. meet the favourable consideration of Your Excellency, we trust its acloption
be accompanied by another- improvement, - namely, empowering tros thirds, or such majority, as may seem best, to return a verdict, the present system of requiring unanimity having nothing to recommend it but its antiquity-
The proposed alteration is however nothing more than has long worked well in testland, has recently been introduced unto the Mauritius, and has been recommended by Lord Langdale the present Master of the Rolls in
Exgland.
But as the complement of Suries in Hongkong is Lix (instead
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of Imelne us in England or Fifteen
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in Scotland) which would leave it to four to return a terdict, should Special Jurors be added, it might perhaps be advisable to enlarge the present Iuries to greater number than six-
Your Memorialists are
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unwilling here to trouble Your Excellency with arguments, but if required, a deputation of their body will be happy to wait upon Your Excellency and more fully into the subject- And your tremorialiste vill ever pray. (Signed) Jas H. Brimelow.
D. Laprank.
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C. T. Mennecken.
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