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have power to award any amount of punishment not exceeding imprisonment for twelve months, or a fine of one thousand dollars, and the Assessors aforesaid shall have no authority to decide on the innocence or guilt of the party accused, or on the amount of punishment to be awarded to him on conviction; but in the event of the said Assessors, or any of them, dissenting from the said conviction of, or from the amount of punishment awarded to, the accused party, the said Assessors or any of them shall be authorized to record in the Minutes of the proceed- ings the grounds on which the said Assessors or any of them may so dissent, and the Consul shall forth- with report to the Consul-General the fact that such dissent has been so recorded in the Minutes of the proceedings, and shall, as soon as possible, lay before the Consul-General copies of the whole of the depositions and proceedings, with the dissent of the Assessor or Assessors recorded therein; and it shall be lawful thereupon for the Consul General, by warrant under his hand and seal, addressed to the Consul by whom the case was heard and determined, to confirm or vary, or remit altogether, as to the Consul-General may seem fit, the punishment awarded to the party accused, and such Consul shall give immediate effect to the injunction of any such
warrant.
XXI. And in order more effectually to repress crimes and offences on the part of British subjects within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, it is further ordered, that it shall and may be lawful for any of Her Majesty's Consuls to cause any British subject who shall have been twice convicted before him of any crime or offence, and punished for the same, and who, after execution of the sentence of the Consul on any second conviction, shall not be able to find good and sufficient security, to the satis- faction of the Consul, for his future good behaviour, to be sent out of the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan;
and to this end any such Consul as aforesaid shall have power and authority, as soon as may be practicable after execution of the sentence on such second conviction, to send any such twice-convicted party out of the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan; if a native of the territories formerly administered by the East India Company to some port of the
Consuls may award second conviction. deportations on
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Consuls may require British sub- jects to give secu- rity to keep the peace.
said territories; and if such party is not a native of such territories, to England; and, meanwhile, to detain him in custody until a suitable opportunity for sending him out of the said dominions shall occur: and any person so to be sent out of the said dominions as aforesaid shall be embarked in custody on board one of Her Majesty's vessels of war, or, if there should be no such vessel of war available for such purpose, then on board any British ship or vessel bound to any such port as aforesaid or to England ; and it shall be lawful for the commander of any of Her Majesty's ships of war, or of any British ship or vessel bound to any such port as aforesaid, or to England, to receive any such person as aforesaid under a warrant from the Consul to him addressed, and thereupon to convey him in custody to any such port as aforesaid or to England, in the same manner as if he were a distressed British subject, unless he shall be willing and able himself to defray the expenses of his passage.
XXII. And it is further ordered, that in any case in which British subject shall be accused before
any any of Her Majesty's Consuls of the crime of arson, or housebreaking, or cutting or maiming, or stabbing or wounding, or of any assault endangering life, or of causing any bodily injury dangerous to life, the proceedings before the Consul shall be carried on with the aid of Assessors, convened in the manner aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the Consul, if to him shall seem fit, to cause any person convicted before him of any of the crimes aforesaid, over and above any fine or imprisonment which may be awarded to such person, to be sent out of the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, and to any such port as aforesaid, or to England, in the manner pointed out in the next preceding Article of this Order, notwithstanding the crime laid to the charge of such person may be the first of which he has been convicted before the Consul,
XXIII. And it is further ordered that it shall be lawful for any of Her Majesty's Consuls, within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, upon information laid before him by one or more credible witnesses, upon oath, that there is reasonable ground to appre- hend that any British subject is about to commit a
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