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CHINA AND JAPAN ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1877

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THE CHINA AND JAPAN ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1877

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, THE 30TH DAY

OF APRIL, 1877.

PRESENT:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

Whereas by the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865, Her Majesty the Queen was pleased, by the advice of Her Privy Council, to make provision for the exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction over Her Majesty's subjects resident in or resorting to China or Japan:

And whereas in China and Japan additional ports may be from time to time opened to foreign trade, and it is expedient to provide for the exercise at those ports of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction before the establishment there of Commissioned Consular Officers:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1875, and by the Act of the Session of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter eighty, "for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China," or 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. The provisions of Article 25 of the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865, and all provisions of that Order consequent thereon or relative thereto, shall extend and apply to every person (not holding a Consular Commission from Her Majesty) from time to time appointed by Her Majesty's Minister in China or Japan to be Acting Consul, and to be resident at a port in China or Japan, which is for the time being open foreign trade, and at which no Commissioned Consular Officer of Her Majesty is resident.

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2. For the purposes and within the meaning of the said Order, every person so appointed as an Acting Consul shall be deemed a Consular Officer, and the district for which he is appointed to act shall be deemed a Consular District, and the Court held by him shall be deemed a Provincial Court.

3.-Words in this Order have the same meaning as in the said

C. L. PEEL.

Order.

ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1877.

By an Order in Council dated 23rd October, 1877, the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Hongkong was extended to cases occurring in any place on land being within ten miles of any part of the Colony, the said jurisdiction being in addition to and concurrent with any power or jurisdiction possessed by the Supreme Court for China or Japan or any Provincial Court under the Order in Council of the 9th March, 1865.