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regulations, but there is no power to take the per-

must rest with the civil courts.

sons concerned out of the operation of the ordinary

civil law, and the enforcement of all such regulations

Assuming, however

that this difficulty could be got over by amendment

of the Ordinance, the Army Council concur with Lord

Lansdowne that it is undesirable to impose military

law upon persons in the position of these interned

men.

3. These interned persons are subject to the

civil courts in the same way as any other persons are,

who are in the Colony; but if it be necessary, for

the purpose of establishing order and discipline, that

certain further offences should be created, which

would not be offences according to the civil law of

the Colony, and that certain summary penalties should

be imposed for the committal of any such offence, the

Army Council are of opinion that these offences should

be specifically laid down, and defined by the Gover-

nor's regulations, together with the penalties to be

imposed

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