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238 ORDINANCES Nos . 4 AND 5 OF 1849 .


Jurors- Panel. Examination of Witnesses before Commissioners.


No. 4 of 1849.

Title. An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No. 7 of 1845 , entitled " An Ordinance
for the Regulation of Jurors and Juries."

[ 7th June, 1849. ]
Preamble. HEREAS under the present provisions of the said Ordinance No. 7 of 1845,
W considerable difficulty has been experienced in supplying an adequate panel of
common jurors within the Colony :
Persons possessed 1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hong
of an annual sala
ry or income not kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that every male person who
less than five.
hundred dollars, shall be in the receipt of an annual salary or income of not less than five hundred
resident within
the Colony, (with
certain excep dollars per annum within the said Colony of Hongkong, and who shall reside within
tions) to be qua
lifted and liable the same, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a common juror therein ; and that
to serve as com
mon jurors. the provision of the second section of the said Ordinance No. 7 of 1845, requiring such
income or salary to be of the full annual amount of one thousand dollars, be, and the
same is hereby repealed, so far as respects the amount of qualification exceeding the
said annual sum of five hundred dollars. But it is hereby declared and provided, that
nothing herein contained shall render any person liable to serve as a juror who can
claim exemption or may not be so liable under the said second section of the said Or
dinance No. 7 of 1845.



[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1851. ]




No. 5 of 1849 .

Title. An Ordinance to Facilitate the Examination of Witnesses in certain
Cases before Commissioners in the Colony of Hongkong.

[ 7th June, 1849. ]
Preamble. HEREAS by the Consular Ordinance No. 1 of 1849, entitled " An Ordinance
WHEfor the better obtaining of Evidence in the Consular Courts in China, and to
amend Ordinance No. 3 of 1847, entitled, ' An Ordinance to authorize Her Majesty's
Consular officers to adjudicate in Civil Actions,"" it has been enacted and ordained ,
amongst other things, that Her Majesty's Consuls or Vice- Consuls resident at the ports in
China may, under certain circumstances, issue a commission for the examination on
interrogatories of any witness or witnesses resident within the Colony of Hongkong,
or at any place within the jurisdiction ofthe Supreme Court, not being a Consular port ;
and that, in the event of any such witness or witnesses refusing to appear before such
Commissioners for the purpose of examination, it shall and may be lawful for any party
in the suit or action to apply by petition, duly verified by affidavit, to the Chief Justice