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as well as all the Magistrates and
Police Officers attend in Court, and hear
the charge delivered by the Judge. The
Prisoners are then arraigned; every prisoner
has a right to be tried by thirteen
Jurymen of his own Cast, unless some
reason why the Prisoner should not be
tried by Jurymen of his own Cast can
be urged to the satisfaction of the Court
by the Advocate Fiscal, who on Ceylon
holds an office very nearly similar to
that held in Scotland by the Lord
Advocate, or unless the Prisoner himself,
from believing people of his own cast
to be prejudiced against him, should
apply to be tried either by 13 Jurymen
of another Cast, or by a Jury composed
of half-casts or Europeans; as soon as
it is decided of what cast the Jury
is to be composed, the Register of the
Court puts into an Urn, which stands
in a conspicuous part of the Court,
a very considerable number of the names
of Jurymen of that class out of which
the Jury is to be formed, he continues
to draw the names out of the Urn, the
prisoner having a right to object to
five peremptorily, and to any number
for cause, until he has drawn the
names of 13 Jurymen who have not been

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	163	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir alexander johnston	Watermarks	[[watermarks::j whatman [motif] 1825 balston & co]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1825
Notes public		ID Number	3599
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