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1058 [ 17 of 1888. ] CORONER'S ABOLITION.

of death , and make such order with regard thereto as he shall
[6'V. c. 12. consider necessary. Suchenquiry may be held notwithstanding
8. i .]
that the cause of death did not arise within the Colony.
Deaths in
Gaol and 7. Whenever any prisoner shall die in gaol, and whenever
executions. any person shall suffer capital punishment, the Magistrate sball,
[11 of64. 27.) within 24 hours ( or 48 hours if a Sunday intervene) with a
jury of three persons as hereinafter provided , view the body
and enquire into the cause of death, and may make such order
in relation thereto as he may consider necessary .
Panel for 8. Whenever aa Magistrate shall require a jury under section
jury .
( 7 of 68. 4. ] 6 or 7 , the Registrar of the Supreme Court shall , on receipt of
a requisition from such Magistrate, draw from the Common
Jurors Ballot Box for the year the names of six jurors to form
a panel , which panel the Registrar shall transmit to the Magis
trate. All the provisions of The Jury Consolidation Ordinance,
No 18 of 1887, shall apply, as far as may be, to such drawing,
in the same manner as if the jurors were required for a common
jury in the Supreme Court.
Summoning
juries.
9. The Magistrate's clerk shall, before the holding of any
[7 of 68. 5 ; enquiry under this ordinance at which a jury may be necessary,
îi of 64. 28.) issue forms of summons according to the form in the schedule
hereto, requiring the attendance of the jurors drawn , and every
such summons shall be personally served upon or left at the
usual place of abode of the juror so summoned . Any juror
failing without reasonable excuse to attend at such enquiry or
at any adjournment thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceed .
ing twenty -five dollars, which may be recovered in a summary
[ 7 of 68. 4. ] way before a Magistrate, but the Magistrate before whom the
juror is required to attend may remit such fine if he see fit so
to do. The Magistrate shall select the three jurors required
from the panel by ballot, and may, if necessary , require any
bystander to serve as a juror, but no officer of the gaol or
prisoner confined therein shall serve as a juror in any such
enquiry.
Procedure 10. The jury required by the foregoing section may be sworn
with a Jury.
or declared according to the form of oath or declaration pro
vided in the schedule hereto, which may be administered to two
or more jurors at once.
Procedure. 11. Whenever an enquiry is made under this ordinance with
(31 V. c. 24 .
8. 5.) jury it shall be the duty of the Magistrate making such
enquiry to record in writing the findingof the jury and the
[ See No. 7 of duty of the jurors to sign the same. In cases under section 7
1889.)
it shall be the duty of the Magistrate to furnish to the Super
intendent of the Gaol a copy of the finding of the jury signed
by him .