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H.B.M. SUBJECTS IN CHINA AND COREA

(b) Any Regulations when so approved, and published as provided

by this Order, shall have effect as if contained in this Order.

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158. (1) All Regulations approved under this Order, whether impos- Publication of ing penalties or not, shall be printed, and a printed copy thereof shall be Regulations. affixed, and be at all times kept exhibited conspicuously, in the public office

of each Consulate in China and Corea.

(2) Printed copies of the Regulations shall be kept on sale at such reasonable price as His Majesty's Minister from time to time directs.

(3) A printed copy of any Regulations. purporting to be made under this Order, and to be certified under the hand of His Majesty's Minister in China or Corea, or under the hand and Consular seal of one of His Majesty's Consular officers in China and Corea, shall be conclusive evidence of the due making of such Regulations.

159. The respective powers aforesaid extend to the making of Prison Regulations for the governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of Regulations. prisons in China or in Corea, for the removal of prisoners from one prison to another, and for the infliction of corporal or other punishment on prisoners committing offences against the rules or discipline of a prison; but the provisions of this Order respecting penalties, and respecting the printing, affixing, exhibiting, and sale of Regulations, and the mode of trial of charges of offences against Regulations, do not apply to Regula- tions respecting prisons and offences of prisoners.

IX. MISCELLANEOUS.

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be observed.

160. Nothing in this Order shall deprive the Court of the right to Customs may observe, and to enforce the observance of, or shall deprive any person of the benefit of, any reasonable custom existing in China or Corea, unless this Order contains some express and specific provision incompatible with the observance thereof.

Consular

161. Nothing in this Order shall prevent any Consular officer in Customary China or Corea from doing anything which His Majesty's Consuls in the power of dominions of any other State in amity with His Majesty are, for the time officers. being, by law, usage, or sufferance, entitled, or, enabled to do,

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of British

162(1) Every British subject resident shall, in January in every Registration year, register himself at the Consulate of the Consular district within subjects. which he is resident: Provided that

(a) The registration of a man shall comprise the registration of his

wife, if living with him; and...

(b) The registration of the head of a family shall be deemed to com- prise the registration of all females and minors being his rela- tives, in whatever degree, living under the same roof with him at the time of his registration,

(2) The Consular officer may, without fee, register any British sub- jects being minors living in the houses of foreigners.

(3) Every British subject arriving at a place in China or Corea where there is a Consular office, unless borne on the muster-roll of a British ship there arriving, shall, on the expiration of one month after arrival, be deemed, for the purposes of this article, to be resident, and shall register himself accordingly.

(4) A person shall not be required to register himself oftener than once in a year, reckoned from the 1st January..

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(5). The Consular officer shall yearly give to each person registered by him a certificate of registration, signed by him and sealed with his Consular seal.

(6) The name of a wife, if her registration is comprised in her husband's, shall, unless in any case the Consular officer sees good reason to the contrary, be indorsed on the husband's certificate....