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ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1845 . 135


Jurors.


Court that the said jury cannot agree upon a verdict, the Court shall discharge such
jury, and shall cause a new jury to be impanelled, and sworn, and charged with any
prisoner, and the action , indictment, or information shall be tried as if such first jury
had not been impanelled.

20. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the verdict of the jury shall in Verdict.
all cases be given by the foreman, in open Court, and in the presence of all the said
jury, and, if a criminal proceeding, in the presence of the prisoner, and shall be there
upon recorded by the Registrar of the said Court ; and the said Registrar shall, before
taking the said verdict, ask if they are all agreed thereon, and whether they find for
the plaintiff, or for the defendant, and in the case of a prisoner whether they find such
prisoner "Guilty" or " Not Guilty ; " and the said jury shall either pronounce a general
verdict for the plaintiff, or defendant, or of " Guilty " or " Not Guilty," or else shall
return a special verdict finding the facts of the case : Provided always, that the said
jury may acquit any prisoner of a part of the charge against him, and find him guilty
of the remainder.

21. And be it further enacted and ordained , that in the construction of this Or Interpretation
clause.
dinance wherever in describing any person or party, matter or thing , the word import
ing the singular number only is used, the same shall be understood to include, and
shall be applied to, several persons or parties as well as one person or party, and several
matters or things as well as one matter or thing, respectively, unless there be some
thing, in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.




SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS .




Summons to Jurors.

Mr. A. B.
You are hereby summoned to appear as a (either common or special as the case may be,) juror at the Summons to juror.
Sec. 9.
Supreme Court to be holden at in this Colony, on the
day of next, and there to attend from day to day until you shall be discharged
from the said Court.

(Signed,) W. C.,- Sheriff.

N. B.-The penalty for disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars in the case
of a common juror, or two hundred dollars in the case of a special juror.




[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of1851. ]