caused to be prepared the amended
Draft now transmitted to us for our
Consideration.
that your Lordship apprehends that in adverting to the want of precision in the first draft; as regarded the limits within which the Consuls, Vice Consuls and other
Persons should exercise Jurisdiction it was not the intention of the Law officers to recommend that a
limitation should be introduced
into the Order restricting the exercise of Jurisdiction within any given district to one such Officer. For
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For although in ordinary circumstance, the Consul alone in such district would in all probability be called upon to exercise Jurisdiction, occasions might arise where the Consul, from illness
or other cause might be temporarily incapacitated from acting, and it might be therefore convenient that the Vice Consul should be able to act in the absence of his Chief
Officer; or it may be prior it may be that the
Vice Consul may be stationed, as
for instance in the Canton Consulate where a Consulate Agent will
reside