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ORDER IN COUNCIL
(2.) A person of Asiatic descent, arriving in Siam and applying to be registered as a British subject, shall be so registered if he (a) produces a passport as a British subject from British India or a British possession; or (b) files an affidavit or sworn declaration showing that he was born within His Majesty's dominions or within the territory of any Prince or State in India under the suzerainty of or in alliance with His Majesty, or that he had been naturalized in the United Kingdom; and (c) in either case gives satisfactory evidence of his identity.
149.-(1.) A person born in Siam, being the child of a person of Asiatic descent who arrived in Siam, may be registered as a British subject if it be proved that the father (a) was registered as a British subject, or (b) being entitled was prevented from being so registered by causes for which he was not responsible.
(2.) Any child of a person registered under the provisions of this Article shall not be entitled to be registered as a British subject by reason only that his father and grandfather were so registered.
150.-A person of Asiatic descent, being a native of Upper Burmah or of the British Shan States, shall not be registered as a British subject if it appears that he arrived in Siam before the 1st January, 1886, and has become domiciled there.
151.—A woman, being the widow of a person of Asiatic descent, who was in his lifetime registered as a British subject, shall be registered as a British subject if her name appears on the last certificate given to her husband before his death.
152.—The Consular officer may, without fee, register any British subjects, being minors, living in the houses of foreigners or Siamese subjects.
153.—All registers kept under any Order repealed by this Order shall continue in force until superseded by registers kept under this Order.
PART IX.-INTERNATIONAL COURT.
Whereas by a Treaty made the 3rd day of September, 1883, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the King of Siam, it was amongst other things agreed as follows:-
"Article VII. His Majesty the King of Siam will appoint a proper person or proper persons to be a Commissioner and Judge, or Commissioners and Judges, in Chiengmai for the purposes hereinafter mentioned. Such Judge or Judges shall, subject to the limitations and provisions contained in the present Treaty, exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction in all cases arising in Chiengmai, Lakon, and Lampoonchi, between British subjects or in which British subjects may be parties as complainants, accused, plaintiffs, or defendants, according to Siamese Law: provided always that in all such cases the Consul or Vice-Consul shall be entitled to be present at the trial, and to be furnished with copies of the proceedings, which, when the defendant or accused is a British subject, shall be supplied free of charge, and to make any suggestions to the Judge or Judges which he may think proper in the interests of justice: provided also that the Consul or Vice-Consul shall have power at any time before judgment, if he shall think proper in the interests of justice, by a written requisition under his hand, directed to the Judge or Judges, to signify his desire that any case in which both parties are British subjects, or in which the accused or defendant is a British subject, be transferred for adjudica- tion to the British Consular Court at Chiengmai, and the case shall thereupon be transferred to such last-mentioned Court accordingly, and he disposed of by the Consul or Vice-Consul, as provided by Article II. of the Supplementary Agreement of the 13th May, 1856" ;
And whereas the IXth Article of the said Treaty provides for the decision of appeals from the said Commissioners or Judges;
And whereas in pursuance of the said Treaty His Majesty the King of Siam has from time to time appointed Commissioners or Judges for the purposes mentioned in
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