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Ordinance No 12 of 1867.

368

Acting Attorney General's Report

The

provisions of Cadiance N9 of 1866 have been to much canvassed....

both in this Colony

this Colony and at thou

that I see no

reason why

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early

day should not be fixed for bunging this Ordnance nito operation.

Section / Peems to me the only clause

which calls for explanation. The object of its introduction was to relieve the doubts which existed in the

ancird of the Chief Justice as to whether Ordinance No 7 of 1866 dispensed_. with a Jury. It certainly was __

uitended at the time of the passing of the Cirdnance that the

should have

High Court

jurisdiction

to try the

offences therem eum

therem enumerated without

the intervention of a sury and but

for

the

suggestion of the Chief Justice