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I enclose the draft of an Ordinance which, advised, will remove all difficulties, and secure the objects which Your Lordship has in view.
The mention of Mr. Plunket's name in connection with this Office must, as Your Lordship surmised, have been an inadvertence on the part of Chief Justice Smale. Mr. Plunket never was appointed Sheriff. Mr. Sangster was provisionally appointed to the Office by Mr. Administrator Austin in April, 1877, and has held it since that date.
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In complying with Your Lordship's wish to receive a full report upon the position and duties of the Sheriff, including the method of executing the process of the Court, and specially noticing the question whether the Government is considered responsible for his acts, in the event of any neglect or misfeasance in executing the process entrusted to him, I have been favoured by Mr. Snowden, the Acting Chief Justice, with the following particulars :-
"The Sheriff is an Officer to a certain extent under the control of the Supreme Court. (See Sheriffs Ordinance of 1873, Sec: 19.) It must be observed, however, that the Supreme Court "Reconstruction Ordinance (12 of 1873), and the Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure (13 of 1873), are of later date, and possibly...
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advised will remove all difficulties,
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The mention of Mr. Bunket's
name in connection with this Office must, as Your Lordship surmised, have been an inadvertence on the part of Chief Justice Smale. M. Plunket
never
ver
was
Mr
was
appointed Sheriff. Nt Sangster
provisionally appointed to the
Office by M. Administrator Austin in April, 1877, and has held it since that
date
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In complying with Your Lordship's wish to receive a full report upon the position and duties of the
Sheriff, including the method of executing
the
process of the Court, and specially_ noticing the question whether the Government is considered responsible his acts, in the event of any
for
neglect misfeasance in executing the process entrusted to him, I have been favoured by Mr. Snowden, the Asting Chief Justice, with the following particulars :-
"The Sheriff
is an
Officer
to
it
certain extent under the control of the
Supreme Court. (See Sheriffs Ordinance /
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of 1873, Sec: 19.) It must be observed,
however, that the Supreme Court --
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"Reconstruction Ordinance (12 of 1873), and
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the Honghong Code of Civil Procedure (13
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of 1873), are of later date, and possibly
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