hongkong-colonial-ordinances-1847 — Page 86

9º VICTORIÆ.- No . 6 of 1845. 17


said Majesty, subject to Suspension by the Governor, in like Manner
as other Officers in the said Colony ; and that all other Officers shall
be removable from their several Offices in the said Court by the
Governor, or Acting Governor for the Time being, upon reasonable
Cause.


X. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Admission of Bar-
risters and Attorneys .
Supreme Court is hereby authorized and empowered to Approve,
Admit, and Enrol such Persons as shall have been admitted Barris-
ters or Advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as Barristers ;
and such Persons as shall have been admitted as Solicitors, Attorneys,
or Writers in one of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edin-
burgh, or as Proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, or who
shall have served for a period of Three Years as an Articled Clerk to
any Solicitor, Attorney, or Proctor, actually practising as such within
the Colony of Hongkong, or shall have been admitted as Solicitors,
Attorneys, or Proctors, in any other of Her Majesty's British Colonies,
to practise as Solicitors, Attorneys, and Proctors in the said Court ;
subject nevertheless to be removed and struck off from the Rolls of
the said Court, upon reasonable Cause.

XI. Provided always, and be it further enacted and ordained, Fit persons to be
admitted to for
That in case there shall not be a sufficient Number of Barristers, Three Months in case
Solicitors, Attorneys, and Proctors within the said Colony, competent of Necessity.
and willing to appear and act for the Suitors of the said Supreme
Court, it shall be lawful for the said Court, and the said Court is
hereby authorized , to admit temporarily so many other fit and proper
Persons to appear and act as Barristers, Solicitors , Attorneys, and
Proctors, as may be necessary, according to such Rules and Regula-
tions as the said Court shall, for that purpose, make and establish :
Provided that the Persons so admitted shall be admitted for a period
of Three Months only, and shall not be re-admitted without obvious
Necessity.

XII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Sheriff of Sheriff of Hongkong
to execute Writs and
Hongkong for the Time being shall, by Himself or his sufficient Processes.
Deputy, (to be by him appointed, and duly authorized under his Hand
and Seal, and for whom he shall be responsible during his continuing
in such Office, ) execute, and the said Sheriff and his said Deputy is
and are hereby authorized to execute, all Writs, Summonses, Rules,
Orders, Warrants, Commands, and Processes of the said Supreme
Court, (other than such as shall be issued under the Summary
Jurisdiction of the said Court, as hereinafter provided by Ordinance
No. 6 of 1845 , ) and make a Return of the same, together with the
Manner of the Execution thereof, to the said Court, and to receive
and detain in Prison all such Persons as shall be committed to the
Custody of such Sheriff by the said Court.

XIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That whenever the Process against She-
riff.
said Supreme Court shall direct or award any Process against the
said Sheriff, or award any Process in any Cause, Matter, or Thing
wherein the said Sheriff, on Account of his being related to the
Parties, or any of them, or by Reason of any good Cause of Challenge
which would be allowed against any Sheriff in England, cannot, or
ought not by Law to execute the same, in every such Case the said
E Court