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THE SIAM ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1886.

deemed a debt lue to the Crown, and may, by virture of the order, without further proceeding, be levied on the property of the person convicted or making the charge, as the case may be.

Where the crime or offence with which any person is charged before any Consular Court appears to the Court to be such that, if proved, it would not be adequately punished by such punishment as the Court his power to impose, and the accused is not to be sent for trial to Her Majesty's dominions, the Court may reserve the case to be heard and determined before a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements acting under the provisions of clause 14 of the Siam Order in Council, 1884. Where any case is reserved under this section, the Consular Court shall take the depositions and commit the prisoner for trial before such Judge of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements as shall next exerc.se criminal jurisdiction in Siam, under the powers given in clause 14 of the Siam Order in Council, 1884.

If any British subject-(a.) Wilfully obstructs by act or threat an officer of the Court in the performance of his duty; (b.) 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 (c.) w lfully insults the Judge 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 twenty-five 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

mnade and kept of every such case of punishment, recording the fact of the offence, and the extent of the punishment, and in the case of a District Court a copy of such Minute shall be forthwith sent to the Consular Court at Bangkok.

Whenever, under the Siam Orders in Council, any person is to be taken, in custody or otherwise, for trial or imprisonment, or by way of deportation, or for any other purpose, to Singapore or elsewhere in the Straits Settlements or to England or elsewhere, the Court or other authority by the Siam Orders in Council authorised to cause him to be so taken may for that purpose, if necessary, cause him to be embarked on board one of Her Majesty's vessels of war, or if there is no such vessel available, then on board any British or other fit vessel, at any port or place, whether within or beyond the particular jurisdiction of that Court or authority, and in order to such embarkation may, if necessary, cause him to be taken, in custody or otherwise, by land or by water, from any place to the port or place of embarkation. The writ, order, or warrant of any Consular Court, or of the Consul General as the case may be, by virtue whereof any person is to be so taken, shall be sufficient authority to every constable, officer, or person acting thereunder; and the commander or master of vessel of war or other vessel (whether the constable, officer, or other 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 i-suing it, the writ, order, or warrant shall be delivered to the constable, officer, or other person acting thereunder, 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.

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Subject to the other provisions of the Siam Orders in Council, all expenses of removal of prisoners and others from or to any place in Siam, the expenses of deporta- tion, and of the sending of any person to England or to India, shall be defrayed as the expenses as 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 may direct, provided that such expenses shall not be charged on Imperial funds otherwise than anet to the section of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.