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THE SIAM ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1884.
Every such District Court shall, subject to the provisions of this Order, have and exercise within its district all the powers and jurisdiction which can be exercised by the Consul-General under the Siam Orders in Council, and the Treaties or Agreements for the time being in force between Great Britain and Siam,
5. An appeal may be brought from a Judgment or Order of a District Court to the Consul-General in the like cases and in the like manner, and subject to the like regulations in, and subject to which an appeal can under the said Orders in Council be brought to the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements; and for the purposes of this Article the provisions of the said Orders in Council shall have effect as if such District Court were therein mentioned instead of the Consul-General, and as if the Consul-General were therein mentioned instead of the said Supreme Court.
For the purposes of hearing and determining any such appeal the Consul-General may proceed in the same manner and shall have the same powers as if the appeal were an original proceeding instituted in his Court, and he shall certify his decision to the District Court, which shall give effect thereto.
6. Where an appeal is brought under this Order to the Court of the Consul. General a further appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements in the like cases and manner and on the like grounds and conditions in and on which an appeal can under the said Orders in Council be brought from the Consul-General to the said Supreme Court.
7. In every case in which, under the said Orders in Council, a report of any proceedings, Order, Judgment, or sentence is directed to be made to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, such report, if made by a District Court, shall be transmitted through the Consul-General, who shall transmit therewith his observations and recommendation (if any) in the matter,
8. The power of deportation under the said Orders in Council shall not be exercised by a District Court without the approbation in writing of the Consul-General.
9. Auy Rules, Regulations, Rules of Practice, or Tables or Rates of Fees made by a District Court under this Order shall not have any effect unless approved in writing by the Consul-General, and shall also be subject to the provisions of the said Orders in Council with respect to allowance or disallowance by a Secretary of State, in the same cases and manner as Rules or Regulations made by the Consul-General. 10. Every Court acting under the Siam Örders in Council shall have power to rehear any
civil matter, and to review its Judgments or Orders in any case in which, in the opinion of the Court, justice so requires, on auch terms as to costs and other- wise as the Court thinks just.
11. In any matter in which an appeal lies as of right or otherwise from any Court acting under the Siam Orders in Council to the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, it shall be lawful for that Supreme Court, by special leave, to enlarge the time for appealing or to permit an appeal to be brought on such ternis as to costa or otherwise as it thinks fit, although the time limited for appeal has elapsed, or any other formal requisite for an appeal has not been complied with.
12. The Governor in Council of the Straits Settlements shall have power, in the name of Her Majesty, to remit in whole or in part any sentence passed by a Court exercising criminal jurisdiction under the Siam Orders in Council, and every such Court shall give effect to any such remission.
13. Every Court acting under the Siam Orders in Council (including the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements in the exercise of concurrent jurisdiction under the Siam Orders in Council) shall be a Court of Bankruptcy, and as such shall, so far as circumstances admit, have with respect to British subjects and to Siamese subjects or foreigners submitting to the jurisdiction of the Court any such civil jurisdiction in bankruptcy within the district of such Court as can be exercised by any Court exercising bankruptcy jurisdiction in the Straits Settlements.
14. With the consent of the Government of the King of Siam, and at the re- quest of the Consul-General, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settle- ments may exercise at Bangkok or elsewhere within Siam any such civil or criminal Jurisdiction as can, under the Siam Orders in Council, be exercised in Siam by the
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