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CHINA, JAPAN, AND COREA ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1884

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limits of the Consular Courts and districts, and Consular seals and signatures, and of any Rules or Regulations made or in force under the China and Japan Orders in Council or this Order, and no proof shall be required of any of such matters.

1851, to apply.

The provisions of "The Evidence Act, 1851" (14 and 15 Vict., Provisions of cap. 99), sections 7 and 11, relating to the proof of judicial and other Evidence Act, documents, shall extend, and be applied for all purposes as if the Courts, districts, and places to which the China and Japan Orders in Council or this Order applies were in a British Colony.

10. This Order shall come into operation at such time or times in when to come China, Japan, and Corea respectively as a Secretary of State, by a notice into operation. published in the London Gazette at or after the time of the publication

therein of this Order, directs.

11.-This Order shall be published in China, Japan, and Corea in such Publication. manner, and printed copies thereof shall be kept for sale at the Consular Courts there at such prices, as a Secretary of State from time to time directs.

And the Right Honourable the Earl Granville and the Right Honour- able the Earl of Derby, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

C. L. PEEL.

THE CHINA, JAPAN, AND COREA ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1884

AT THE COURT AT BALMORAL, THE 9TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1884

PRESENT:

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL

Whereas by Treaty and otherwise Her Majesty the Queen has power and jurisdiction within China and Japan and the dominions of the King of Corea :

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1878, and other- wise, 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 "China, Japan, and Corea Order in Council, 1884 (Supplemental)."

2. This Order shall be construed with the China, Japan, and Corea Order in Council, 1884 (herein called the Principal Order).

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3.—Notwithstanding anything contained in the Principal Order, or ally notice published in pursuance thereof, the Principal Order, so far as it relates to Corea, and also this Order, shall come into operation on the day named in this Order as the date of this Order.

4. The provisions of the China and Japan Order in Council, 1881, Articles 6 to 20, both inclusive, so far as the same are for the time being im force, shall apply to Corea mutatis mutandis, with the substitution in the 20th Article thereof of "Corea" for "Japan," and of the "King of