Beizure of vessel
Jurisdiction as to piracy.
Report by Provincial Court.
Punishment in summary way for public insult to religion or religious Institutions.
Jurisdiction of Courts in China and Japan.
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ORDER IN COUNCIL
97. If any person navigating a Briti
wilfully violates, or wilfully attempts to violate, any such Regulation, the officer commanding any vessel of war of Her Majesty, or in charge of any boat belonging to such vessel of war, may use force for the purpose of compelling him to desist from the violation or attempted violation of the Regulation, and if appears necessary or expedient may seize the vessel, and such C mmand- ing Officer may either detain her at the place of seizure, or take her, or cause her to be taken, to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere where the offender may be more conveniently prosecuted for such offence.
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Any such vessel may lawfully be detained at the place of seizure, or at the port or place to which she is so taken, under the authority of any such Commanding Officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in Japan until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of the
offence.
X-PIRACY.
98. Any British subject being in China or in Japan may be proceeded against, tried, and punished under this Order for the crime of piracy wherever committed.
99. If the Court before which a British st charged with the crime of piracy is brough' is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.
The Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accord- ingly.
XI.-OFFENCES AGAINST RELIGION.
100. If any Fritish sul ject is guilty of publicly deriding, mocking, or insulting any religion established or observed in China or in Japan-or of publicly offering any insult to any religious service, feast, o. Simony established or kept in any part of China or in Japan, or to any place for worship, tomb, or sanctuary belonging to any such religion, or to the ministers or professors thereof,-or of wilfully committing any act tending to bring any such religion or its ceremonies, mode of worship, or observances into hatred, ridicule, or contempt and thereby to provoke a breach of the public peace, he shall be liable (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceed ing 500 dollars, or to a fine not exceeding 500 dolla sithout imprisonment.
Notwithstanding an thing in this Order, ever charge against a British subject of having committed any such offence shall be heard and deter- mined in a summary way, and any Provincial Court shall have power to im ose the unishment aforesaid.
Her Majesty's Consular Officers shall take such precautionary measures as seem to them proper and expedient for the prevention of such offences.
XII.-AUTHORITY WITHIN 100 MILES OF "IT COAST OF CHINA.
101. Where a British subject, being after the commencement of this Order in China or in Ja an, is charged with having committed, either before or after the commencement of this Order, any crime or offence within a British vessel at a distance of not more than 100 miles from the coast of China,--or within a Chinese or Japanese vessel at such a distance as aforesaid,—or within a vessel not lawfully entitled to claim the protec- tion of the flag of any State, at such distance as aforesaid,-any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan within the jurisdiction whereof he is found may cause him to be apprehended and brought before it, and may take the reliminary examination and commit him for trial.
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