being a barrister or a solicitor of the High Court of Justice, and not an alderman or councillor of the borough, to act for him as Deputy-Coroner during his illness or unavoidable absence, but no longer or otherwise. The mayor or two justices for the borough must, on each occasion, certify in writing signed by him or them, the necessity for the appointment of a Deputy-Coroner. This certificate must state the cause of absence of the Coroner, and must be openly read to every inquest jury summoned by the DeputyCoroner.

ARTICLE 60.

COUNTY CORONERS ACT IN BOROUGHS WHICH HAVE NO

CORONER.

1 Where a borough has not a separate Court of Quarter Sessions no person other than the Coroner for the county or district in which the borough is situate, shall take in the borough any inquisition belonging to the office of Coroner. That Coroner is, for every inquisition duly taken by him within the borough, entitled to such rateable fees and salary as would be allowed and due to him, and to be allowed and paid in like manner, as for any other inquisition taken by him within the county or district.

CHAPTER VIII.

TERRITORIAL DIVISION OF ENGLAND FOR ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

ARTICLE 61.

COUNTIES AND CIRCUITS.

1THE English and Welsh counties are divided into eight circuits as set out in the note hereto.

1Every part of a county which is detached from the main body of such county is considered for all purposes connected with the administration of criminal justice as forming part of that county by which it is surrounded.

2

Every county of a city or town corporate (except London and Bristol) which is not itself the assize town for the county in which it is included, or to which it is adjacent, is for purposes of commitment and trial taken to be a part of the county in which it is included or to which it is adjacent.

3 The towns of Berwick-on-Tweed and Newcastle-on-Tyne are adjacent for this purpose to the county of Northumberland, and the town of Hull to the county of York.

Separate commissions are issued for those counties of cities

Counties corporate, enumerated in 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 61. As to Berwick

see s. 109.

Effect of 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 64, s. 26, and 7 & 8 Vict. c. 61, s. 1.

2 Effect of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 55, s. 19.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 55, s. 24; 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 109 and Sched. C. And This sehedule also provides that Bristol,

see Sched. D. to 45 & 46 Vict. c. 50.

Chester, and Exeter shall be deemed to be adjacent to Gloucestershire, Cheshire, and Devonshire respectively; but all these are assize towns.

or towns corporate which are assize towns for the counties in which they are included or to which they are adjacent, and a separate commission is issued for the county of the city of Bristol.

1

Her Majesty may by order in Council provide in such manner, and subject to such regulations as to her Majesty may seem meet, for the discontinuance, either temporarily or permanently, wholly or partially, of any existing circuit, and the formation of any new circuit by the union of any counties or parts of counties, or partly in the one way and partly in the other, or by the constitution of any county or part of a county to be a circuit by itself.

ARTICLE 62.

ASSIZE COUNTIES.

Her Majesty may by order in Council from time to time unite any neighbouring counties together into one assize county for the purpose of any Court of Assize or Sessions of Oyer and Terminer or Gaol Delivery held in the months of 2 September, October,3 November, December, January, March, April, or May, and may appoint the places at which assizes are to be held for such counties.

4

"Her Majesty may by order in Council provide in such manner as may seem meet for the jurisdiction of the Court, and the attendance, jurisdiction, authority, and duty of sheriffs, gaolers, officers, jurors and other persons, the use of any prison, the removal of prisoners, the alteration of any commissions, writs, precepts, indictments, recognizances, proceedings and documents, the transmission of recognizances, inquisitions and documents, and the expenses of prosecutors and witnesses, and of maintaining and removing prisoners so far as may seem to her Majesty necessary for carrying into effect an order in Council under the Winter Assizes Act, 1876; and for any

1 37 & 38 Vict. c. 83, s. 23 (part). This power practically supersedes a more limited power of the same sort given by 26 & 27 Vict. c. 127.

240 & 41 Vict. c. 46.

3 39 & 40 Vict. c. 57, s. 2.

4 42 Vict. c. 1, s. 1.

5 39 & 40 Vict. c. 57, s. 2, sub-ss. (3) & (4).

matters which appear to her Majesty to be necessary or proper for carrying into effect an order in Council under the said Act.

1Her Majesty may by order in Council direct that the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court, at any session held for the Central Criminal Court district in the months of November, December, or January, shall extend to any neighbouring county or part of a county mentioned in the order as if it were included within the limits of the Central Criminal Court district, and may apply the Central Criminal Court Act to the said county or part of a county, and offences committed therein, as if the same were a county or part of a county mentioned in that Act.

ARTICLE 63.

DISTRICT OF THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

The City of London, the county of Middlesex, and those parts of the counties of Essex, Kent, and Surrey which are within the 2 parishes and other places mentioned in the footnote hereto, are the district of the Central Criminal Court.