H. B. M. SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND JAPAN.
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Her Majesty's Consular Officers shall take such precautionary measures as seem to them proper and expedient for the prevention
of such offences.
XII.—AUTHORITY WITHIN 100 MILES OF THE COAST OF CHINA.
101. Where a British subject, being after the commencement of Jurisdiction of Courts in this Order in China or in Japan, is charged with having committed, China and Japan. either before or after the commencement of this Order, any crime or offence within a British vessel at a distance of not more than 100 miles from the coast of China,-or within a Chinese or Japanese vessel at such a distance as aforesaid,-or within a vessel not lawfully entitled to claim the protection of the flag of any State, at such a distance as aforesaid,-any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan within the Jurisdiction whereof he is found may cause him to be apprehended, and brought before it, and may take the preliminary examination and commit him for trial.
102. If the Court before which the accused is brought is a Report by Provincial Provincial Court the Court shall report to the Judge of Supreme Court. Court the pendency of the case.
The Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so beard and determined accordingly.
103. The provisions of this Order relative to crimes and offences, Application of other
provisions. and proceedings in criminal matters, shall in all respects, as far as may be, extend and apply to every such case, in like manner as if the crime or offence had been committed in China or Japan.
104. Where a British subject, being after the commencement Jurisdiction st of this Order in Hongkong, is charged with having committed, either Hongkong. before or after the commencement of this Order, any crime or offence within any British, Chinese, Japanese, or other such vessels at such a distance as aforesaid, the Supreme Court at Hongkong shall have and may exercise authority and jurisdiction with respect to the crime or offence as fully as if it had been committed in Hongkong.
Deserters.
105. Her Majesty's Minister in China or in Japan, the Judge Military and Naval or Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court, and any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China or in Japan, or the Governor or person administering the Government of Hongkong, on receiving satisfactory information that any soldier, sailor, marine, or other person belonging to any of Her Majesty's Military or Naval forces, has deserted therefrom, and has concealed himself in any British, Chinese, Japanese, or other such vessel at such a distance as aforesaid, may, in pursuance of such information, issue his warrant for a search after and apprehension of such deserter, and on being satisfied on investigation that ary person so apprehended is such a deserter, shall cause him to be with all convenient speed taken and delivered over to the nearest military station of Her Majesty's forces or to the officer in command of a vessel of war of Her Majesty serving in China or Japan, as the case may require.
XIII.-DEPORTATION.
cases.
106. (i.) When it is shown on oath, to the satisfaction of any Deportation in what of Her Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan that there is reasonable ground to apprehend that any British subject in China or in Japan is about to commit a breach of the public peace, or that the acts or conduct of any British subject in China or in Japan are or is likely to produce or excite to a breach of the public peace,-the Court within the jurisdiction whereof he happens to be may cause him to
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