hongkong-colonial-ordinances-1847 — Page 199

14 REGULA GENERALIS .


and the Officers of Court, shall be entitled to, and shall receive all
such Fees as the Registrar of the Court shall allow to them on
Taxation.


When Privilege of XXXVII. That any Person having been so admitted to sue or
suing or defending as defend as a Pauper, and becoming of Ability during the Progress of
a Pauper to cease.
the Cause, or misbehaving himself therein by any Vexatious or
Improper Conduct or Proceeding, or wilfully delaying the Cause,
shall, on the same being shewn to the Court, be deprived of all the
Privileges of such his Admission .



4. CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS.

Process for Sum- XXXVIII. That the Process of the said Court for summoning
moning Defendant
Indictment on the Defendant to answer any Indictment or Information, and for
or Infor-
mation.
the Service of a Copy of the Indictment or Information on any
Defendant therein named, shall be by Writ sued out by the Regis-
trar of the said Court, or when the Prosecution is at the Instance of
a Private Party, by the Prosecutor or his Attorney, and the same
shall be directed to the Sheriff of the Colony, in the Form, or as
near as may be, in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked No. 5 .

Notice of Trial on XXXIX . That the said Registrar or his Deputy in Crown cases,
Indictment
mation. or Infor- or the Prosecutor or his Attorney, shall endorse on, or annex to,
every Indictment or Information, and every Copy of any Indictment
or Information, delivered to the Sheriff for Service thereof, a Notice
of Trial ; which Notice shall specify the Court before which, and the
particular Session and Time when, he will bring the Defendant to
Trial on the said Indictment or Information ; and which shall be as
near as may be in the Form in the Schedule hereunto annexed,
marked No. 6.


Prosecutorto deliver XL. That the said Registrar or his Deputy, or the Prosecutor
to Sheriff . Process,
Copy of Indictment or or his Attorney, shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Sheriff,
Information, and No- (together with the Process of the Court for summoning the Defen-
tice of Trial.
dant) a Copy of the Indictment or Information, with the Notice of
Trial endorsed on the same or annexed thereto ; and if there are
more Defendants than one, then as many Copies and Notices as
there are Defendants ; and if the Prosecution be at the Instance of
any Private Party, the Prosecutor shall also at the same time pay
to the said Sheriff his lawful Costs and Charges for serving the
same.

Time and Mode of
XLI. That the Sheriff shall, as soon as may be after having
Defendant
on Indictment or In- received a Copy or Copies of the Indictment or Information , and
formation.
Notice or Notices of Trial, and the Process of the Court for serving
the same, and Ten Days at least before the Day therein specified
for Trial of the said Defendant or Defendants, by himself, or his
Deputy, or other Officer, deliver to the said Defendant or Defendants
the said Copy or Copies, or Notice or Notices, and explain to him,
her, or them, the Nature and Exigency thereof ; and when the said
Defendant or Defendants, or any or either of them, cannot be found,
he shall leave a Copy or Copies of the said Indictment or Informa-
tion, and Notice or Notices of Trial, with some one of his, her, or
their Household , for him, her, or them, at his, her, or their Dwelling-
house,