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For Summoning Coroner's Juries.
Coroner empowered
to remit Fines and adjourn Inquests.
Preliminary Exami- nation of Bodies.
Fees to Medical Practitioners.
Commencement of Ordinance.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH MAY, 1868.
V. The Superintendent of Police or such other Officer as shall from Time to Time be appointed for the purpose by the Governor, shall before the sitting of a Coroner's 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.
VI. The Coroner is hereby empowered to remit Fines imposed by him on Jurors for non-attendance on sufficient cause being shewn and is also empowered to adjourn Inquests from Time to Time and to use the same Jury for a Second Inquest should he consider it necessary.
VII. The Superintendent of the Civil Hospital in the absence of the Colonial 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.
VIII. The Coroner is further hereby empowered to direct Payment of a Fee of $10 for any Post Mortem Examination made 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.
IX. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall hereafter be fixed by Proclamation under the Hand of the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 23rd Day of May, 1868.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULE.
SUMMONS OF JURORS TO Coroner's Court.
Title.
Preamble.
Provisions of 36 Geo. 3, chap. 7, and 57
Colony, except as to
Mr. A. B.
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
next, at the hour of noon, and there to attend until you shall be discharged from the Court.
o'clock in the
(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.
HONGKONG.
ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORIA REGINE.
SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 8 or 1868.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to assimilate the Law of this Colony respecting Treasonable Offences to the Law of the United Kingdom.
[23rd May, 1868.]
Whereas it is expedient to assimilate the Law of this Colony respecting Treasonable Offences to the Law of the United Kingdom; Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. From and after the passing and coming into operation of this Ordinance the Geo. 3, chap. 6, not Provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Thirty-sixth Year of the to be of Force in this Reign of KING GEORGE the Third, Chapter Seven made perpetual by an Act of the Offences against the Imperial Parliament of the Fifty-seventh Year of the same Reign, Chapter Six, and all the Provisions of the last mentioned Act in relation thereto, save such of the same respectively as relate to the compassing, imagining, inventing, devising, or intending Death, or Destruction, or any bodily Harm tending to Death, or Destruction, Maim or
Person of the Sovereign.
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