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668 ORDINANCE No. 11 of 1864 .


Jury.

Jurylist to be in
use for one year. 11. On or before the first day of February in each year, the sheriff shall make out
and transmit a fresh jury list , in manner and form as hereinbefore directed ; and such
fresh jury list, when so transmitted, and approved of or altered as aforesaid, shall be
brought into use the first day of March then next following, and shall continue to be
used for one year. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882. ]
Manner of form
ing panel. 12. When the jury list shall be completed and returned to the Registrar, he shall
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cause the names therein to be written on separate cards and placed in a ballot box to
be kept for that purpose, and whenever it shall be requisite to summon a jury, the
sheriff shall attend at the Registrar's office and, in the presence of him or his deputy,
["a Deputy Registrar shall in the presence of the Registrar" as amended by Ordinance 1
No. 24 of 1882] draw from the said box eighteen, and at criminal sessions, thirty
of the said names to form a panel, and the cards so drawn shall thereupon be locked
up in a separate box therein to remain until the entire of the names in the ballot box
shall be exhausted by subsequent panels, when all the names of the jurors shall be
returned to the ballot box, if required, for the purposes of the current year, and in
such case the names shall again be redrawn in manner aforesaid . [ Proviso added by
Ordinance No. 7 of 1868.]
For summoning
juries. 13. The sheriff [" The Registrar " as amended by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882] shall ,
before the sitting of any Court whereat a jury shall be necessary, issue summonses ac
cording to the form in the schedule ( B ,) hereunto annexed, requiring the attendance
thereat of the persons so drawn from the ballot box, and every such summons shall be
personally served upon , or left at the usual place of abode of the person so summoned
two clear days before the day appointed for the sitting of the Court.
Panel.
14. The sheriff shall also, at the same time, cause to be delivered to the Registrar,
Deputy Registrar or clerk of the Court, a panel containing the names, places of abode,
and additions, of the persons so summoned . [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 24 of 1882 and
new section substituted . ]
Penalty for
non-attendance, 15. If any juror having been duly served with such summons , shall fail to attend ,
or being present shall not appear when called , or after appearance shall withdraw
himself without the permission of the Court, the Court shall, unless some reasonable
excuse be proved on oath or affidavit or otherwise to the satisfaction of the Court, set
upon the person so making default such fine, not exceeding the sum of one hundred
dollars, as to the said Court shall seem meet.
Jury to be
balloted for. 16. At the sitting of the Court the names of all the jurors summoned shall be
written on separate pieces of card of equal size and put into a box, and the Registrar,
Deputy Registrar or clerk of the said Court shall, in open Court, draw therefrom until
sevenjurors appear, who , after all just causes of challenge allowed, shall remain as fair and
indifferent, and the same shall be done whenever it shall be necessary to form anew jury.
Governor and
Council to mark 17. When and so often as the list of jurors shall have been transmitted by the
the names of
not less than Registrar in manner aforesaid to the Governor and Legislative Council, he and they
twenty-four.
[See Ord. No. 8 2 shall mark off, and designate with the term, " Special Juror," not less than twenty
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four of the names contained in the list, and the names of such special jurors shall be


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