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H.B.M. SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND COREA

(2) The report of the Registrar or special Referee may be adopted wholly or partially by the Court, and if so adopted may be enforced as a judgment of the Court.

(3) The Court may also in any case, with the consent of both parties to an action, or of any parties between whom any questions in the action arise (such consent being signified by a submission) refer the action or the portions referred to in the submission to arbitration, in such man- ner and upon such terms as it shall think reasonable or just.

(4) In all cases of reference to a Registrar, special Referee, or Arbitrator, under any order of the Court, the Registrar, special Referce, or Arbitrator shall be deemed to be an officer of the Court, and shall have such powers and authority, and shall conduct the reference or arbitration in such manner as may be prescribed by any Rules of Court, and subject thereto as the Court may direct.

or award.

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98. Subject to Rules of Court, the Court shall have authority to Enforcement enforce any submission, or any award made thereunder, and to control of submission and regulate the proceedings before and after the award, in such manner and on such terms as the Court thinks fit.

Bankruptcy.

99. Each Court shall, as far as circumstances admit, have, for and Bankrupt within its own district, with respect to the following classes of persons being either resident in China or Corea, or carrying on business there, namely, resident British subjects and their debtors and creditors, being British subjects, or foreigners submitting to the jurisdiction of the Court, all such jurisdiction in bankruptey as for the time being belongs to the High Court and the County Courts in England.

Admiralty.

jurisdictio

100.-(1) The Supreme Court shall have Admiralty jurisdiction Admiralty for and within the limits of this Order, and over vessels and coming within the same.

persons

(2) The following enactments of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890, that is to say, Section 2, Sub-sections (2) to (4); Sections 5 and 6; Section 16, Sub-section (3); shall apply to the Supreme Court as if that Court were a Colonial Court of Admiralty, and as if China and Corea were a British possession; and for the purpose of this application the expressions "judgment" and "appeal" shall in the enactments so applied have the same respective meanings as are assigned thereto in Section 15 of the said Act.

Matrimonial.

101. The Supreme Court shall, as far as circumstances admit, have Matrimonial for and within China and Corea, with respect to British subjects, all jurisdiction. such jurisdiction in matrimonial causes except the jurisdiction relative

to dissolution or nullity or jactitation of marriage, as for the time being belongs to the High Court in England.

Lunacy.

102.-(1) The Supreme Court shall, as far as circumstances admit, Lunacy have for and within China and Corea, in relation to British subjects, all jurisdiction. such jurisdiction relative to the custody and management of the persons and estates of lunatics, as for the time being belongs to the Lord Chan- cellor or other Judge or Judges in England intrusted by virtue of His Majesty's sign manual with the care and commitment of the custody of the persons and estates of lunatics, and also such jurisdiction as may be

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