civil litigants.

13. When criminal and civil jury trials are held at the Costs to be apportioned same sittings the costs of summoning the jury panel shall between be apportioned between the Crown and the civil litigants Crown and in proportion to the number of cases requiring a jury, but the Crown and the civil litigants shall pay the per diem jury allowance according to the time during which the panel actually was held in the criminal or civil matters, respectively, and the trial judge shall certify to the same. But nothing herein contained shall be taken to waive the payment of the deposit now required by civil litigants requir ing a jury. No. 19 of 1902, s. 13.

14. The Sheriff on receipt of the precept for summoning Sheriff to the jury panel shall execute the same by delivering to each summon jury. person, or leaving with some grown up person residing at his house, a reasonable time before the date of trial, a summons in form C in the schedule hereto. No. 19 of 1902, s. 14.

return precept to court.

15. The sheriff shall on or before the opening of the court Sheriff shall deliver to the court the precept with his return thereto. No. 19 of 1902, s. 15.

summons.

16. Every person summoned to serve as a juror who fails Penalty for to obey the summons or to answer to his name when called failing to obey by the Clerk shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, which may be immediately imposed by the Court, provided that the Court may for good cause reduce or remit the said penalty. No. 19 of 1902, s. 16.

17. All fines for non-attendance of jurors shall if not paid How fines to forthwith be levied together with sheriff's costs and ex- be collected. penses as authorized for the execution of civil process by warrant of distress issued by the Clerk of the Court directed to the Sheriff, and in default of sufficient distress and upon such return of insufficient distress such person may on the order of the Court be imprisoned for a term not exceeding sixty days. No. 19 of 1902. s. 17.

18. Any party to a civil cause may apply to a judge in Special jury. chambers on giving two clear days' notice for a special jury

and upon such application the judge may make such order

as he sees fit. No. 19 of 1902, s. 18.

19. There shall be payable to the Sheriff and Clerk each Sheriff and out of the general revenue fund of the Territory on the cer- clerks fees. tificate of the revising judge, the sum of ten cents for every name added to the list of jurors so prepared as aforesaid. No. 19 of 1902, s. 20.

In the Territorial Court of the Yukon Territory.

Edward VII. by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, etc., etc. To the Sheriff of the Yukon Territory :

.in the

You are commanded that you cause to come before this Court on..... day of...........A.D. 19....... at 10 o'clock in the forenoon at....... Yukon Territory for the trial of causes requiring trial by jury the good and lawful men of the said Territory whose names and places of abode are given in the schedule hereto annexed.

Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court at... ....in the said Territory this.....

...A.D. 19......

SCHEDULE TO PRECEPT.

......day of

Names.

Residense.

Return of Sheriff.

FORM C.

In the Territorial Court of the Yukon Territory:

To......

....

By virtue of a precept to me directed you are hereby required and commanded to be and appear at............

on the......... day of ............... A. D. 19...

at the hour

of ten o'clock in the forenoon and so on from day to day until discharged to serve as a juror in the trial of causes then and there to be heard.

Herein fail not at your peril.

Sheriff's office

No 19 of 1902.

...........

day of...

A. D. 19......

Court in ali

mony.

CHAPTER 27.

An Ordinance Respecting Alimony.

Jurisdiction of 1. The Territorial Court of the Yukon Territory shall have the Territorial jurisdiction to grant alimony to any wife who would be entitled to alimony by the law of England or to any wife who would be entitled by the law of England to a divorce and to alimony as incident thereto or to any wife whose husband lives separate from her without any sufficient cause and under circumstances which would entitle her by the law of England to a decree for restitution of conjugal rights; and alimony when granted shall continue until the further order of the court. N.W.T., c. 29, s. 1.

CHAPTER 28.

An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Slander.

1. In any action of slander founded on words spoken of Slander of the plaintiff imputing unchastity, adultery or profligacy to females. a female, whether married or unmarried, it shall not be necessary to allege or prove any special damage but such Special words shall be actionable per se. N.W.T., c. 30, s. 1.

damage.

slander.

2. In any action of slander founded on false and malici- Not necessary ous defamatory words, reflecting upon the character, repu- to prove special tation, honesty or actions of any person, or on false or mali- damage in cious statements which might tend to bring into ridicule action of or contempt any person, it shall not be necessary to allege or prove any special damage, but such false and malicious defamatory words or statements shall be actionable per se. No. 37 of 1900, c. 1.