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THE SIAM ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1887.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, 12TH JULY, 1887.

PRESENT:-

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS Her Majesty the Queen has power and jurisdiction within the dominiona of the Kings of Siam and the territories of Chiengmai, Lakon, and Lamponchi, belonging to Siam. And whereas Orders in Council under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts have been made in relation to Siam, and regulations in pursuance of such Orders in Council have from time to time been made, and doubts have arisen as to the validity of certain of such regulations, and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed and the validity of such regulations declared :—

Now therefore Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by the Act of the sixth George IV., chapter eighty-seven, and the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1878, and the Act of the Session of the twentieth and twenty-first of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-five, 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 Siam Order in Council, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

Tis Order shall be construed as one with the Siam Order in Council, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and the Orders in Council amending the same.

2.-It is hereby declared, ordered, and enacted, that the Regulation dated the nineteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, a copy of which is set forth in the schedule to this Order, is and shall be deemed to be, and to have been as from the date thereof duly and validly made, and effect shall be given thereto, and all acts heretofore done in pursuance of such regulations shall have the same force, effect, and validity as if the provisions thereof had been expressly enacted in the Orders in Council in force in Siam at the same date.

3.—The Consul-General shall on receipt of this Order forthwith cause a printed copy thereof to be affixed and publicly exhibited in his Court.

And the Right Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury, and the Right Honourable Viscount Cross, and the Right Honourable Sir Henry Holland, three of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.

SCHEDULE.-Notification.

C. L. PEEL.

The following Regulations made by the undersigned, Her Majesty's Minister Resident and Consul-General in Siam, in virtue of the powers vested in him by section on of the Or er in Council of the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand eigt hundred and fifty six, to make Rules and Regulations for the peace, order, and good governmen: of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Kings of Siam, and approved by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is hereby notified for the information of British subjects :-

1.-Every British sub,ect resident in Bangkok or within twenty-four hours' journey thereof, and every Br t sh subject resident in Chiengmai, or within twenty- four hours' journey thereof, being of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, or being married, or a widower or widow, though under that age, shall, in the month of Ja uary, on thousand ight hundred and eighty-seven, and in every subsequent year, register h m elf or herself in the register-book kept for that purpose, ein or at Her Majesty' Consulate-General in Bangkok or at Her Majesty's Vice-Consulate at Chiengmai, and all British subjects resident in Siam beyond those limits shall, in lika manner, register themselves as early as may conveniently be in the year one thousand eight hundred and eigutj-seven and every subsequent year, subject to this qualifica-

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