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Consul at Shanghai to be Sheriff
Execution by Provincial of
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The Judge of the Supreme Court may from time to time, subject to the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, make Rules for regulating the admission of persons to practise as aforesaid in Provincial Courts.
42. Her Majesty's Consul at Shanghai shall have all the powers and authorities of the Sheriff of a county in England, with all the privileges and immunities of the office, and as such Sheriff shall be charged with the execution of all decrees, orders, and sentences made and passed by the Supreme Court, on the requisition in that behalf of the Supreme Court.
43. Each Provincial Court shall execute any writ, order, or writs, &c. from warrant issuing from the Supreme Court and directed to the Supreme Court. Provincial Court;-and may take security from any person named therein for his appearance personally or by attorney, according to the writ, order, or warrant ;-or may cause such person to be taken, in custody or otherwise, to the Supreme Court, or else- where in China or Japan, according to the writ, order, or
Execution of writs, &c. from Hong Kong.
Protection of
Consular
Officer.
Courts to be auxiliary.
Report by Provincial to Supreme Court.
warrant
44. Any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan may execute any writ, order, or warrant issuing from the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, and accompanied by a request for such execution in writing under the seal of that Court;-and may take security from any person named in any such writ, order, or warrant for his appearance personally or by attorney at Hong Kong or may cause any such person to be taken in custody or otherwise, to Hong Kong, according to the writ, order, or warrant.
45. Any of Her Majesty's Judicial or Consular Officers shall not be liable to an action for the
escape of taken under any writ, order, or warrant of the Supreme Court any person of Hong Kong,
46. Her Majesty's several Courts in China and Japan shall be auxiliary to one another in all particulars relative to the administration of justice, civil or criminal.
47. Each Provincial Court shall every six months furnish to the Supreme Court for China and Japan a report respecting every case, civil and criminal, brought before it, in such form as the Judge of the Supreme Court from time to time directs.
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IL-IN CIVIL MATTERS.
Reconciliation and Arbitration.
48. Every Court may promote reconciliation, and encourage Settlement of and facilitate the settlement in an amicable way of any suit or litigation, proceeding pending before it..
Court.
49. A Court may, with the consent of the parties, refer to Reference to arbitration the final determination of any suit or proceeding arbitration by pending before it, or of all matters in difference between the parties, on such terms and with such directions as to appoint- ment of an arbitrator and other things as may seem fit, and may, if it thinks fit, take from the parties, or any of them, security
to abide by the result of the reference.
In any such case the award shall be final and conclusive. On the application of any party a decree of the Court may
be entered in conformity with the award, and such decree shall
not be open to any appeal or re-hearing whatever.
50. Every agreement for reference to arbitration or sub- Reference to mission to arbitration by consent may, on the application of: arbitration
any party, be made a rule of a Court having jurisdiction in the made rule of matter of the reference or submission, which Court shall there- Court, upon have power and authority to enforce the agreement or sub- mission and the award made thereunder, and to control and regulate the proceedings before and after the award in such manner and on such terms as may be just.
General Authority of Courts.
51. The Supreme and every other Court shall be a Court of Law and Law and of Equity.
Equity.
Special Authorities of Courts.
52. The Supreme and every other Court shall be a Court of Bankruptcy, and as such shall, as far as circumstances admit, have, (as to a Provincial Court, for and within its own district,) with respect to British subjects and to their debtors and cre- ditors, being either British subjects or foreigners submitting to the jurisdiction of the Court, all such jurisdiction as for the time being belongs to the Court of Bankruptcy and the County Courts in England, or to any other judicial authority having for the time being jurisdiction in Bankruptcy in England.
Bankruptcy.
53. The Supreme and every other Court shall (as to a Pro- Coroner. vincial Court, for and within its own district) have and discharge all the powers, rights, and duties appertaining to the office of
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