the-ordinances-of-the-legislative-counci-1890v2 — Page 511

EVIDENCE CONSOLIDATION . 1101
[ 2 or 1889. ]
necessary or of the judicial character of the person appearing to
have made such signature and statement.
26. All answers to interrogatories, disclaimers, examinations, Answers, &c.
affidavits, declarations, affirmations, and attestations of honour Court
in Supreme
may be
and all other documents required to be sworn or declared in sworn and
taken in
suits or matters depending in the Supreme Court, and also England,
acknowledgments required for the purposes of enrolling any Ireland,
Scotland,the
deed in the said Court, shall and may be sworn, declared and Channel
taken in England, Scotland or Ireland, or the Channel Islands, Islands, & cc.
or in any other colony, island, plantation, or place under the c. 86,s. 22.
dominion of Her Majesty in Foreign Parts, before any Court, No. 1 of 1857,
s. 1. ]
Judge , notary public, or person lawfully authorised to administer
oaths in such country, colony, island, plantation or place
respectively, or before any of Her Majesty's Consuls or Vice
Consuls in any Foreign Parts out of Her Majesty's dominions ;
and the Judges and other officers of the Supreme Court shall
take judicial notice of the seal or signature, as the case may be,
of any such Court, Judge, notary public, person , Consil, or
Vice -Consul, attached , appended , or subscribed to any such
pleas, answers, disclaimers, examinations,affidavits, affirmations,
attestations of honour,declarations , acknowledgments, or other
documents to be used in the said Court.
27. In civil proceedings : --
( 1. ) Entries in books of account kept in the course of books
Entriesofin
business with such a reasonable degree of regularity account .
as shall be satisfactory to the Court, shall be admis- (Code,s.55.]
sible in evidence, whenever they refer to a matter
into which the Court has to inquire, but shall not
alone be sufficient evidence to charge any person
with liability .
( 2. ) The Ilongkong Gazette and any Government Gazette Government
of any country, colony, or dependency under the Gazettes.
dominion of the British Crown, may be proved by
the bare production thereof before the Court.
( 3. ) All proclamations, acts of state, whether legislative or Proclama
&c . of
tionse,, acts
executive, nominations, appointments, and other stat
official communications of the Government, appear
ing in any such Gazette, may be proved by the
production of such Gazette, and shall be primâ facie
proof of any fact of a public nature which they were
intended to notify .
( 4. ) The Court may, on matters of public history, litera- Books of *
ture, science, or art, refer, for the purposes of science
charts , maps,
evidence, to such published books, maps, or charts
as the Court shall consider to be of authority on
the subject to which they relate.