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

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person, or the vessel or the commander or master thereof, is named therein or not), to receive, detain, take, and deliver up such person, according to the writ, order, or warrant.

Where the writ, order, or warrant is executed under the immediate direction of the Court or authority issuing it, the writ, order, or warrant shall be delivered to the constable, officer, or other person acting there- under, and a duplicate thereof shall be delivered to the commander or master of any vessel in which the person to whom the writ, order, or warrant relates is embarked.

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 shall be for all purposes conclusive evidence of the Order of which it purports to be

a copy.

removal of

154. Subject to the other provisions of this Order, all expenses of Expenses of removal of prisoners and others from or to any place in China or Japan, prisoners, &c. 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, 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 Court, or in going to or returning from Court,—

He shall 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 exceeding seven days, at the discretion of the Court, according to the nature and circumstances of the case.

A minute shall be made and kept of every such case of punishment, recording the facts of the offence and the extent of the punishment, and in the case of a Provincial Court, a copy of such minute shall be forthwith sent to the Supreme Court.

Punishment for obstructions or disturbance of Court.

156. If any clerk or officer of a Court acting under pretence of the Misconduct of process or authority of the Court is charged with extortion, or with not duly officers of Court. paying any money levied, or with other misconduct, the Court may (without prejudice to any other liability or punishment to which the clerk or oflicer would in the absence of the present provision be liable) inquire into the charge in a summary way, and for that purpose ammon 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 repayment of any money extorted or for the due payment Order for re- of any money levied, and for the payment of such damages and costs as payment.