JURORS -- PANEL ORDINANCE

JURORS -- PANEL ORDINANCE

Jurors--Panel.

No. 4 of 1849.

An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No. 7 of 1845, entitled 'An Ordinance
for the Regulation of Jurors and Juries.'
[7th June, 1849.]

'HEREAS under the present provisions of the said Ordinance No. 7 of 1845;

considerable difficulty has been experienced in supplying an adequate
panel-off::

common jurors within the Colony:

I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of
Hong=
kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that every male
person who
shall be in the receipt of an annual salary or income of not less than
five hundred
dollars per annum within the said Colony of Hongkong, and who shall
reside within
the same, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a common juror
therein; and that
the provision of the second section of the acid 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same is hereby repealed, so far as respects the amount of qualification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 nerve 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[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1851.]
238

Title.
Preamble.
Persons possessed of an animal salary or income not less than five hundred dollars, resident within the Colony, (with certain exceptions) to be qualified and liable to serve as common jurors.

238

Title.
Preamble.
Persons possessed of an animal salary or income not less than five hundred dollars, resident within the Colony, (with certain exceptions) to be qualified and liable to serve as common jurors.

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