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H. B. M. SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND JAPAN.

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Where the writ, order, or warrant issues from the Supreme Court for China and Japan, and is executed by a Provincial Court in China or Japan, and where the writ, order, or warrant issues from the Supreme Court of Hongkong, and is executed by any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or Japan,-a copy thereof, certified under the seal of the Court executing the same, shall be delivered to the constable, officer, or other person acting thereunder, and to the commander or master of any vessel in which the person taken is embarked; and any such copy sbali be for all purposes conclusive evidence of the Order of which it purports to be a copy.

154. Subject to the other provisions of this Order, all expenses Expenses of removal of of removal of prisoners and other from or to any place in China or prisoners, &c. Japan, or from or to Hongkong, and the expenses of deportation and of the sending of any person to England, shall be defrayed as the expenses relating to distressed British subjects are defrayed or in such other manner as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time directs.

155. If any British subject wilfully obstructs, by act or threat, Punishment for an officer of a Court in the performance of his duty,-.

Or within or close to the room or place where a Court is sitting wilfully behaves in a violent, threatening, or disrespectful manner, to the disturbance of the Court, or the terror of the suitors or others resorting thereto,-

Or wilfully insults the Judge, Assistant Judge, or Law Secretary of the Supreme Court, or any Consular Officer, or any Juror or Assessor, or any clerk or officer of a Court during his sitting or attendance in Comit or in going to or returning from Court,--

He sha1 be liable to be immediately apprehended by order of the Court, and to be detained until the rising of the Court, and further, on due inquiry and consideration, to be punished with a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, or imprisonment for any term not exceed- ing seven days, at the discretion of the Court, according to the nature and circumstances of the case.

A minute shall be ma e and kept of every such case of punish- ment, recording the facts of the offence and the extent of the punish- ment, and in the case of a Provincial Conrt, a copy of such minute shall be forthwith sent to the Supreme Court.

obstructions or disturbance of Court

of Court.

156. If any clerk or officer of a Court acting under pretence of Miscondues office the process or authority of the Court is charged with extortion, or with not duly paying any money levied, or with other misconduct, the Court may (without prejudice to any other liability or punish- ment to which the clerk or offier would in the absence of the present provision be liable), inquire into the charge in a summary way, and for that purpose summon and enforce the attendance of all necessary persons in like manner as the attendance of witnesses and others may be enforced in a suit, and may make such order thereupon for

the payment of any money ex orted or for the due payment of any Order for re-payment. morey levied, and for the payment of such damages and costs as the Court thinks just; and the Court may also, if it thinks fit, impose

such fine upon the clerk or officer, not exceeding 50 dollars for each Fine.

offence, as seems just.

under Order.

157. Any suit or proceeding shall not be commenced in any of Suits for things done Her Majesty's Courts in China or Japan or in any Court of Hongkong, against any person for anything done or omitted in pursuance or execution or intended execution of this Order, or of any Regulation or Rule made under it, unless notice in writing is given by the