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CHINA, JAPAN, AND COREA ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1886.

Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do hereby direct that the said Order in Council shall come into and be operative in China, Japan, and Corea, respectively, on and after the 1st day of October, 1884.

Foreign Office, 7th July, 1884.

GRANVILLE.

THE CHINA, JAPAN, AND COREA ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1886.

AT THE COURT AT WINdsor, the 3RD DAY OF APRIL, 1886.

PRESENT:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, by Treaty and otherwise, Her Majesty the Queen has power and jurisdiction within China and Japan and the dominions of the King of Corea.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts 1843 to 1878 and otherwise in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1.-This Order may be cited as the China, Japan, and Corea Order in Council, 1886.

2. The 4th Article of the China, Japan, and Corea Order in Council, 1884 shall, for all purposes, be construed as if for the sub-section thereof numbered (8) there were substituted the following sub-section :-

(3.) All powers and jurisdiction, whether original, appellate, or auxiliary, which can, under the said Orders, be exercised in relation to any Provincial Court in Japan, or in, or in relation to, the district of any such Court by the Court for Japan, or by the Supreme Court for China and Japan, may be exercised in relation to Corea or any Provincial Court therein, or in, or in relation to, the district of any such Court by the Supreme Court for China and Japan.

Provided, that nothing in this Order shall render invalid anything done before the commencement of this Order, or before the publication of this Order in China or Corea.

3.-This Order shall come into operation forthwith, and shall be published in China and Corea, and printed copies thereof shall be kept for sale at the Consular Courts in Corea.

And the Right Honourable the Earl of Rosebery, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

C. L. PEEL.