Barristers, attorneys,
and solicitora,
Consul at Shanghai
to be Sheriff.
Execution by
Provincial Court of weits, &c., from Supreme Court.
Execution of writs, &o., from Hongkong.
Protection of Consular Officers.
Courts to be auxiliary.
Report by Provincial to
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ORDER IN COUNCIL.
41. The Judge of the Supreme Court my from time to time admit fit persons to practice in the Supreme Court as barristers, attorneys, and solicitors, or in any of those capacities.
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 warrant issuing from the Supreme Court an 1 directed to the 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 elsewhere in China or Japan, according to the writ, order, or 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 Hongkong, 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 Hongkong; or may cause any such person to be taken in custody, or other- wise, to Hongkong, according to the writ, order, or warrant.
45. Any of Her Majesty's Judicial or Consular Officers shall not be liable to action for the escape of any person taken under any writ, order, or warrant of the Supreme Court of Hongkong.
46. Her Majesty's several Courts in China au 1Japan shall be auxiliary to one another in all particulars relative to the administration of justice, civil or criminal.
37. Each Provincial Court shall every six months furnish to the Supreme Court. 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.
Settlement of litigation,
Reference to arbitration by Court.
Reference to arbitration ruale rule of Court.
II.--In Civil Matters. RECONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION.
48. Every Court may promote reconsiliation, and encourage and facilitate the settlement in an amicable way of any suit or proceeding pending before it.
49. A Court may, with the consent of the parties, refer to arbitration the final determination of any suit or proceeling pending before it, or of all matters in difference between the parties, on such terms an I with such directions as to appointmeat of a 1 arbitrator an l other things as may seem fit, and m, if it think 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 fiual 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-h aring whatever.
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50. Every agreement for reference to arbitration, or submission to arbitration, by consent, may, on th application of any party, be made a rule of a Court having jurisdiction in the matter of the reference or submission, which Court shall thereupon have power and authority to enforce the agreement or submission and the award made thereunder, and
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