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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH MAY, 1868.

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II. The Provisions of Section XXII of Ordinance No. 11 of 1864, are hereby Provisions of Section declared to apply to cases only where the Attorney General charges any Prisoner with XXII of Ordinance Felony.

No. 11 of 1864 to be applicable to cases of Felony only.

Panel for Coroner's

III. On the 1st Day of March in each Year, the Superintendent of Police or his Manner of forming Deputy shall cause the Names in the Jury List for the Year to be written on separate Jury. cards and to be placed in a Ballot Box to be kept for that purpose, and whenever it shåll be necessary to summon a Coroner's Jury the Superintendent of Police or his Deputy shall draw from the said Box, Six of the said Names to form a Panel, and the cards so drawn shall thereupon be locked up in a separate Box therein to remain until the entire Number of the names in the Ballot Box shall be exhausted by subsequent Panels, when all the Names of the Jurors shall be returned to the Ballot Box, if required, for the Purposes of the current Year, and in such case the Names shall be redrawn in Manner aforesaid. Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Police or his Deputy to open the Ballot Box and draw fresh Names therefrom as often as may be necessary to secure the full Number of Three Jurors at an Inquest.

IV. The Superintendent of Police or such other Officer as shall from time to time For Summoning be appointed for the purpose by the Governor, shall before the sitting of a Coroner's Coroner's Juries. Court whereat a Jury shall be necessary, issue Summonses according to the Form in the Schedule hereunto annexed, requiring the Attendance of the Persons so drawn from the Ballot Box, and every such Summons shall be personally served upon or left at the usual place of Abode of the Person so summoned.

to remit Fines and

V. The Coroner is hereby empowered to remit Fines imposed by him on Jurors Coroner empowered for non-attendance on sufficient cause being shewn and is also empowered to adjourn adjourn Inquests, Inquests from time to time and to use the same Jury for a Second Inquest should he consider it necessary.

nation of Bodies.

VI. The Superintendent of the Civil Hospital is the absence of the Colonial Preliminary Exami- Surgeon or such other Medical Officer as may be appointed by the Governor for that duty shall, on receiving a dead body make a preliminary examination thereof, and report to the Coroner who shall, if necessary direct a Post Mortem Examination to be held when a further report of the cause of death must be forwarded to the Coroner.

Practitioners,

VII. The Coroner is further hereby empowered to direct Payment of a Fee of Fees to Medical $10 for any Post Mortem Examination by a duly qualified Medical Practitioner undertaken by order of the Coroner, and also to direct Payment of the Sum of $5 for the attendance at an Inquest of any duly qualified Medical Practitioner whose evidence the Coroner may consider it expedient to take.

VIII. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall here- Commencement of after be fixed by Proclamation under the Hand of the Governor.

Ordinance.

SCHEDULE.

SUMMONS OF JURORS TO CORONER'S COURT.

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Mr. A. B.

o'clock in the

You are hereby summoned to appear as a Juror at the Coroner's Court to be holden at in this Colony on the

day of noon, and there to attend until you shall be discharged from the Court.

next, at the hour of

(Signed,)

C. D.,

N.B.-The Penalty for Disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars. Personal Ser- vice of this Summons is not necessary to subject a Party summoned to the Penalty for Disobedience.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for amending the Law relating to the Granting of Pensions and other Allowances to the Police Force.

Whereas it is expedient to amend the Law relating to the Granting of Retiring Pensions and other Allowances to Members of the Police Force; Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

Title.

Preamble.

of Ordinance No. 9 of

I. Sections XI and XII of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 shall be repealed from the Sections XI and XII time that this Ordinance comes into operation except as to any Right acquired 1862 repealed, except, thereunder by any Officers or Men whose Services may have been accepted by the Govern- &c. ment for a second period of Five Years, as mentioned in the said Sections hereby repealed.