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requirements of those sections of the order in Council for the exercise of jurisdicti over British Subjects in Japan, provide that in civil

which

suits an

appeal shall lie to

this Supreme Court and that in criminal cases Offenders sentenced under that

onder in Council shall be sent

to this Colony for imprisonment.

I have perused Mr. Hammond's letter to Mr. Merivale in which, by the

Earl

of

Malmes.

mesbury's

directions the order in

Council was

forwarded

to the Colonial Office

and

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's

attention called to the

sections.

of the order in

Council above referred to,

and the suggestion

as to the

having

mads

expediency of

an Ordinance here to meet the

passed here requirements of

those sectione

I have considered the

and I.

matter with reference to the questions both of necessity and of expedienes

As similar causes exist

in the order in Council of the 13th June 1853 under which

3th June