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H.M.B, SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND COREA

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(2.) Where any printed or written newspaper or other publication containing seditious matter is printed, published, or offered for sale within the limits of the Order by a Company registered in the United Kingdom or in a British possession, the Court may, after notice to the Company, and on proof of the facts, require the Company to give security to abstain from such printing, publishing, or offering for sale in future. If the Company fail to give security, or if the Company is shown to have again printed, published, or offered for sale such newspaper or other publica- tion containing seditious matter after giving such security, the Court may make an order prohibiting the Company from carrying on business within the limits of the Order, and may make such other orders as to the Court may seem just. The Court may also declare all the property of the Company within the limits of the Order to be forfeited to His Majesty the King, and shall dispose of it, subject to any general or special directions of the Secretary of State, as it thinks fit.

(3.) Matter calculated to excite tumult or disorder, or to excite enmity between His Majesty's subjects and the Government of China or the Government of Corea, or the authorities or subjects of any Power in amity with His Majesty, being within the limits of this Order, or between the Government of China and its subjects, or the Government of Corea and its subjects, shall be deemed to le seditions matter within the meaning of this Article.

(4.) Jurisdiction under this Article shall not be exercised except by the Supreme Court.

6. The following Article shall be substituted for Art. 84 of the PrincipalOrder: Where any person is deported to any place to which he can most conveniently be sent through Hongkong, and it is necessary to land and tranship him at Hong- kong, he shall, ou his arrival there, be delivered, with the wariant under which he is deported, into the custody of a Magistrate of Police at Hongkong, who, on receipt. of the person deported and of the warrant, shall detain him, and shall forthwith report the case to the Governor of Hongkong, who shall, by warrant, cause the person so deported to be detained in custody until a convenient opportunity occurs for sending him to the place to which he has been deported, and shall then send him to that place.

7. Where a case is stated under Article 85 of the Principal Order, the Judge shall have power, save where the case has been stated by himself, to order that it shall be heard and determined in the manner provided by Article 86 by himself aloue, instead of by the full Court.

8. The following Article shall be substituted for Article 108 of the Principal Order :-

If any person named executor in a will takes possession of, and administers or otherwise deals with any part of the property of the deceased, and does not obtain probate within one month after the death or after the termination of any proceedings respecting probate or administration, he shall be liable to pay double the amount of any fees chargeable on obtaining probate, and be shall also be liable to a fine not -exceeding one hundred pound-.

9. Article 112 of the Principal Order shall be amended by the substitution of the sum of one hundred pounds for the sum of fifty pounds therein mentioned.

10. Any person desirous of levying a distress for rent may apply to the Court to appoint a bailiff to vy such distress, and the Court may thereupon, and upon the applicant giving sufficient security to answer for any misconduct où the part of such bailiff, appoint a person to act as bailiff to levy such distress.

11. The following Articles shall be substituted for Article 114 of the Principal Order :-

(1.) Any party to an action in the Supreme Court, other than an Admiralty action, or to an appeal to the Supreme Court, aggrieved by the decision of that Court or by the verdict of a jury, may move the Supreme Court to rehear such action or appeal.

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