DROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
報 門轅 港 香
Published by Authority.
. No. 57.
VOL. XLIV.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 1898.
號七十五第 日七十二月十年戌戊 日十初月二十年八十九百八千一 簿四十四第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 559.
The following Circular Despatch with its enclosure is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th December, 1898.
HONGKONG. No. 289.
T. SERCOMBE SMITHI,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
4th November, 1898.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you for your information a copy of an Order of the Queen in Council dated the 20th ultimo entitled "The China and Japan Order in Council, 1898."
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
The Officer Administering the Government of
Your most obedient humble Servant,
EDWARD WINGFIELD, for the Secretary of State.
WE
HONGKONG.
AT THE COURT AT BALMORAL,
The 20th day of October, 1898. PRESENT,
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
DUKE OF FIFE
EARL OF KINTORE
LORD GEORGE HAMILTON.
HEREAS by Treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, Her Majesty
the Queen has jurisdiction in China and Japan.
NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by the "Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890," or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of the Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :-
1. The Registrar of Her Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Japan shall be appointed by Her Majesty.
He shall be either a member of the Bar of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or a solicitor of the Supreme Court in England or Ireland, or a writer to Her Majesty's Signet, or a solicitor in the Supreme Courts of Scotland.
He may also, with the approval of the Secretary of State, hold the office of Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court.