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ORDERS IN COUNCIL

ORDER OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN COUNCIL, FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF HER MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND JAPAN

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, THE 9TH DAY OF MARCH, 1865

PRESENT:-

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS an Act of Parliament was passed in the Session of the sixth Preamble. and seventh years of Her Majesty's reign (chapter eighty) "for the better . so. government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China":

And whereas, by the Act it was enacted (among other things) that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order or Orders made with the advice of Her Privy Council, to ordain for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any ship or vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, any law or ordinance which to Her Majesty in Council might seem meet, as fully and effectually as any such law or ordinance could be made by Her Majesty in Council for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within Her Majesty's Island of Hongkong:

6 and 7 Vict,

Aud whereas, another Act of Parliament was passed in the same 6 and 7 Viet. Session (chapter ninety-four) "to remove doubts as to the exercise of o. 94. power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more effectual' (to which Act the expression "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act" when hereafter used in this Order refers) :

And whereas, by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act it was enacted (among other things) that it was and should be lawtul for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty then had, or might at any time hereafter have, within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or con- quest of territory:

And whereas, Her Majesty has had and now has power and jurisdic- tion in the dominions of the Emperor of China, and in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:

And whereas, Her Majesty was pleased from time to time, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, by Orders in Council of the several dates in the Schedule to this Order specified, to ordain laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, and to make provision for the exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid in the dominions of the Emperor of China and of the Tycoon of Japan respectively:

And whereas, it has seemed to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to be expedient at the present time to revise the provisions of the said Orders, and to ordain further and other laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being