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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JUNE, 1888.

15. No Inquisition shall be necessary in any enquiry by a Magistrate uuder this Ordinance, and no committal under this Ordinance by any Magistrate shall be held to be bad on the ground that no Inquisition was drawn up.

16. Any person who may have been committed for trial at the Supreme Court by any Magistrate under this Ordinance on a charge of murder or manslaughter shall be entitled to have at 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 ninety

words.

17. When any person shall be committed for trial at the Supreme Court by a Magistrate under this Ordinance on a charge of murder or manslaughter, or as accessory before the fact to any murder, in any case in which the cause of the death enquired 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 upou 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 the cause of death arose within the Colony.

18. The following fees shall be payable to any duly qualified medical practitioner not an officer of the Govern- ment of the Colony who has made any autopsy in pursuance of an order from the Magistrate under Section 5, or who has attended any enquiry, on Summons, as a medical witness -

..$10

For an autopsy.. For attendance to give evidence......$ 5 19. The following Ordinances or parts thereof are hereby repealed. but such repeal shall not affect any past operation of the said Ordinances, or anything done or suffered there-

nuder

No. 3 of 1856,...So much as relates to 6 and 7 Vict. c. 83 No. 11 of 1864,...Sections 27 and 28

No. 7 of 1868,...Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, and the

Schedule.

No. 2 of 1869,...Section 10.

20. Section 11 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1872 and Schedule F' to that Ordinance shall be read as if for the word Coroner there were substituted the word Magistrate.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this, day of June, 1888.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

4th

Assented to by His Excelleney the Governor, the 9th

Inquisition abolished.

Copies of depositions, (22 V. c. 33. 8. 3.)

Trial &c. when cause of death was out of the Colony. (6 V. e. 12. s. 3.)

Fees for medica? evidence. (7 of 68, 8.)

Repeals:

Amendment of Ordinance 7 of 72.

day of June, 1888.

Mr. A. B.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Colonial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

SUMMONS TO JUROR,

You are hereby summoned to appear as a Juror at an inquiry to be held by a Magistrate concerning the death of one C. D.

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in this Colony on o'clock, and there to attend until you shall be discharged, '

(Signed) E. F. Magistrate's Clerk.

NB.-The penalty for disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars. Personal service of this Summons is not necessary to subject the Juror summoned to this penalty.

OATH FOR JURORS.

You shall diligently enquire and true presentment make of all such matters and things as shall be here given you in charge, on behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, touching the death of now lying dead [of whose body you shall have the view]. You shall present no man for hatred, malice, or ill-will: nor spare any through fear, favour or affection; but a true verdict give according to the evidence and the best of your skill and knowledge. So help you God.

DECLARATION.

I do solemnly, sincerely. and truly declare that I will diligently, enquire and truc presentment make of all such matters and things as shall be here given me in charge, on behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, touching the death of

now lying dead [of whose body I am to have the view] I will present no man for hatred, malice, or ill-will; nor spare any through fear, favour, or affection: but a true verdict give according to the evidence and the best of my skill and knowledge.

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