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At the Court at Windsor,

the 9th day of March 1865.

PRESENT:

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS an Act of Parliament was passed in the Session of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's reign (chapter eighty) "for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects "resorting to China":

And whereas by that Act it was enacted (among other things) that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order or Orders made with the advice of Her Privy Council, to ordain for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any ship or vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, any law or ordinance which to Her Majesty in Council might seem meet, as fully and effectually as any such law or ordinance could be made by Her Majesty in Council for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within Her Majesty's Island of Hong Kong:

And whereas another Act of Parliament was passed in the same Session (chapter ninety-four) to remove doubts as to "the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within "divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions "and to render the same more effectual" (to which Act the ex- pression The Foreign Jurisdiction Act when hereafter used in this Order refers):

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