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122 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1845 .


Supreme Court.


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.

Admission of 10. And be it further enacted and ordained , that the said Supreme Court is hereby
barristers and
attornies.
authorized and empowered to approve, admit, and enrol such persons as shall have
been admitted barristers or advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as bar
risters ; and such persons as shall have been admitted as solicitors , attornies , or writers
in one of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, 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, attornies, or proc
tors, in any other of Her Majesty's British colonies, to practise as solicitors, attornies,
and proctors in the said Court ; subject nevertheless to be removed and struck off from
the rolls of the said Court, upon reasonable cause. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of
1871.]

Fit persons to 11. Provided always, and be it further enacted and ordained, that in case there
be admitted to
practise for shall not be a sufficient number of barristers, solicitors , attornies, and proctors within.
three months in
case of necessity.
the said Colony, competent 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 , attornies, and proctors, as may be necessary, according to
such rules and regulations 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 readmitted without obvious necessity.

Sheriff of Hong 12. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the sheriff of Hongkong for the
kong to execute
writs and pro time being shall, by himself or his sufficient deputy, (to be by him appointed, and
cess.
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, com
mands, 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 execu
tion 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 . [Repealed by Or
dinance No. 1 of 1873. ]

Process against 13. And be it further enacted and ordained, that whenever the said Supreme
sheriff.
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 Court shall name and appoint some other fit person