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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH AUGUST, 1887.

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53. The Consul-General may exercise any power conferred on any Justices of the Peace within Her Majesty's dominions by any Act of Parliament for the time being in force, regulating merchant seamen or the mercantile marine.

Yearly Report under this Order.

54. Not later than 31st March in each year, or such other day as the Secretary of State directs from time to time, the Consul-General shall send to the Secretary of State a report on the operation of this Order up to 31st December in the previous year, or such other date as the Secretary of State directs from time to time, showing for the last twelve months, the number and nature of the proceed- ings, criminal and civil, taken under this Order, and the result thereof, and the number and amount of fees received, and containing an abstract of the list of registered British subjects, and such other in- formation, and being in such form, as the Secretary of State from time to time directs.

· Publication of Order and Rules.

55.-(a.) A printed copy of this Order, and of all Rules of Procedure and other rules for the time being in force under this Order, shall be kept exhibited in a conspicuous place in each Consular Office and in each Court-house.

(b.) Printed copies thereof shall be sold in Zanzibar at such reasonable price as the Consul- General from time to time directs.

And the Right Honourable the Earl Granville and the Right Honourable the Earl of Kimberley, 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.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,

The 26th day of March, 1885.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

LORD PRESIDENT

MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON

LORD STEWARD

EARL GRANVILLE

SIR H. PONSONBY

C. L. PEEL.

SIR EDWARD MALET

HEREAS, by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, Her Majesty the Queen

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power and jurisdiction in West Africa.

NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843 to 1878, or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

PART I-GENERAL JURISDICTION.

1. The limits of this Order are-

The parts of West Africa situate west of the 25th meridian of cast longitude, south of the 30th parallel of north latitude, and north of the 25th parallel of south latitude, except any place for the time being comprised within the limits of the ordinary local jurisdiction of the Courts of any Colony, Settlement, or possession of Her Majesty or of any other non-African Power, and except the territories and territorial waters of Morocco and Liberia.

2. Subject to the provisions and restrictions contained in this Order, and in particular to the provisions which define or prescribe the law to be administered under this Order, the jurisdiction conferred by and to be exercised under this Order shall, within the limits of this Order, and subject to the restrictions in this Order mentioned, comprise and include all power and jurisdiction whatsoever which, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts or otherwise. Her Majesty is capable of conferring on the Courts constituted by this Order for the purposes of civil and criminal jurisdiction, and for the other purposes expressed in this Order, and all such power and jurisdiction are hereby conferred on the said Courtse

3. All powers and jurisdiction under this Order are vested in the Consular Courts hereby constituted.