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288 ORDINANCES Nos . 4 AND 5 OF 1854 .


Panel ofJurors. Supreme Court- Summary Jurisdiction.


No. 4 of 1854.

Title.
An Ordinance for reducing the Number of Jurymen from Eighteen to
Ten.

[ 31st October, 1854. ]
Preamble. HEREAS in consequence of the more frequent holding of Criminal Sessions in
W future, it will be unnecessary to summon more than a panel of ten jurymen :

Ordinance 4 of 1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Honorable the Lieutenant- Governor
1851 ss. 6 and 7
amended .
Administering the Government of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council
thereof, that sections 6 and 7 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1851 , be amended by substituting
10 jnrymen to the word ten for the word eighteen so often as the same occurs therein respectively, in
form panel.
order to diminish the said panel by eight names .



[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 15 of 1856 (disallowed) and Ordinance No. 7 of 1857. ]




No. 5 of 1854.

Title. An Ordinance to amend and extend Ordinance No. 9 of 1845 , entitled

" An Ordinance to invest the Supreme Court of Hongkong with a
Summary Jurisdiction in certain cases."

[ 31st October, 1854. ]
Preamble. HEREAS it is advisable to afford further facility for the recovery of the
Wpossession of lands and tenements the annual rental of which does not exceed

the sum of five hundred dollars , and accordingly to amend the Ordinance No. 9 of 1845
by extending its power to such cases of possession : —

Parts of 1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Honorable the Lieutenant- Governor
Ordinance 9 of
1845 repealed. Administering the Government of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council
thereof, that so much of the first and other sections of Ordinauce No. 9 of 1845 as are
in any wise inconsistent or repugnant to the provisions of this Ordinance shall, as
respects the application of the same, be deemed and are hereby repealed to such extent.
Possession of
tenements not 2. And be it further enacted and ordained, that when the term and interest of
exceeding $500
per annum, the tenant of any lands or tenements where the value of the premises or the rent pay
recoverable by
plaint in the able in respect of such tenancy did not exceed the annual sum of five hundred dollars,
summary
jurisdiction of shall have ended or shall have been duly determined by a legal notice to quit, and if
the Supreme
Court.
such tenant or occupier of the same or any part thereof shall neglect or refuse to quit
and deliver up possession of the premises or of such part thereof respectively, it shall
be lawful for the landlord or his agent to enter a plaint (after the form in the schedule
hereunto annexed) in the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction , and thereupon a