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Pazishment for returning.

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ORDER IN COUNCIL

113. If any person deported returns to China or Japan without the permission of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in writing under his hand (which permission the Secretary of State may give), he shall be guilty of an offence against this Order, and shall be liable on conviction thereof to punishment (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 200 dollars, or by a fine not exceeding 200 dollars, without imprisonment, and also to be forthwith again deported in manner hereinbefore provided.

XIV. REGISTRATION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS.

Annual registra- 114. Every British subject resident in China or Japan,-being of the tion of residents. age of 21 years or upwards, or being married, or a widower or widow, though under that age, shall, in the month of January in the year 1866 and every subsequent year, register himself or herself in a register to be kept at the Consulate of the Consular district within which he or she resides-subject to this qualification, that the registration of a man shall be deemed to include the registration of his wife (unless she is living apart from him), and that the registration of the head of the family, whether male or female, shall be deemed to include the registration of all females being relatives of the head of the family (in whatever degree of relationship) living under the same roof with the head of the family at the time of his or her registration.

Registration of non-residents.

Penalty.

Fee

-Certificate.

Suits by foreigners

subjects.

Every British subject not so resident arriving at any place in China or Japan where a Consular Officer is maintained, unless borne on the muster roll of a British vessel there arriving, shall, within one month after his or her arrival, register himself or herself in a register to be kept at the Consular Office, but so that no such person shall be required to register himself or herself more than once in any year, reckoned from the 1st day of January.

Any person failing so to register himself or herself, and not excusing his or her failure to the satisfaction of the Consular Officer, shall not be entitled to be recognized or protected as a British subject in China or Japan, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars for each instance of such failure.

115. Every person shall on every registration of himself or herself pay a fee of such amount as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time by order under his hand appoints, such amount either to be uniform for all persons, or to vary according to the circum- stances of different classes, as the Secretary of State from time to time by such order directs.

116. The Consular Officer shall issue to every person so registered a certificate of registration under his band and Consular seal; and the name of a wife (unless she is living apart from her husband) shall be indorsed on her husband's certificate; and the names and descriptions of females whose registration is included in that of the head of the family shall be indorsedon the certificate of the head of the family.

XV.-FOREIGNERS.-FOREIGN TRIBUNALS.

117. Where a foreigner desires to institute or take any suit or against British proceeding of a civil nature against a British subject, the Supreme or other Court, according to its jurisdiction, may entertain the same, and where any such suit of proceeding is entertained shall hear and determine it according to the provisions of this Order, and of the Rules made under it applicable in the case, either by the Judge, Assistant Judge, Law Secretary, or proper Consular officer sitting alone (or with Assessors when the case so requires), or, if (in any case where a trial with a jury may be had under this Order) all parties desire, or the Court thinks fit to