THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH JUNE, 1865.
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104. Where a British subject, being after the commencement of this Order in Hongkong, is charged with having com- sattel, either before or after the commencement of this Order, any crine or offence within any British, Chinese, Japanese, or ther such vessel at such a distance as aioresaid, the Supreme Court at Hongkong shall have and may exercise authority and jansdiction with respect to the crime or offence as fully as if it had been committed in Hongkong.
105. Her Majesty's Minister in China or in Japan, the Judge or Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court, and any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China or in Japan, or the Governor or person administering the Government of Hongkong, on Piving satisfactory information that any soldier, sailor, marine, or other person belonging to any of Her Majesty's Military Naval forces, has deserted therefrom, and has concealed himself in any British, Chinese, Japanese, or other such vessel at gch a distance as aforesaid, may, in pursuance of such information, issue his warrant for a search after and apprehension of ich deserter, and on being satisfied on investigation that any person so apprehended is such a deserter, shall cause him to be with all convenient speed taken and delivered over to the nearest military station of Her Majesty's forces, or to the officer in reramand of a vessel of war of Her Majesty serving in China or in Japan, as the case may require.
XIII-DEPORTATION.'
106. (i.) Where it is shown on oath, to the satisfaction of any of Her Majesty's Courts in China or in Japan that there reasonable ground to apprehend that any British subject in China or in Japan is about to commit a breach of the public ace, or that the acts or conduct of any British subject in China or in Japan are or is likely to produce or excite to a breach the public peace,--the Court within the jurisdiction whereof he happens to be may cause him to be brought before it and require him to give security to the satisfaction of the Court, to keep the peace, or for his future good behaviour, as the case may require:
(ii.) Where any British subject is convicted, under this Order, of any crime or offence, the Court within the jurisdiction whereof he happens to be may require him to give security to the satisfaction of the Court for his future good behaviour:
In either of these cases, if the person required to give security fails to do so, the Court may order that he be deported from China or Japan to such place as the Court directs.
107. In any case where an order of deportation is made under this Order, the Court shall not, without the consent of the person to be deported, direct the deportation of any person to any place other than Hongkong or England.
108. A Provincial Court shall forthwith report to the Judge of the Supreme Court any order of deportation made by it and the grounds thereof.
The Judge of the Supreme Court may reverse the order, or may confirm it with or without variation, and in case of confirmation, shall direct it to be carried into effect.
109. The person to be deported shall be detained in custody until a fit time and opportunity for his deportation arrives. The Judge of the Supreme Court shall then (and in the case of a person convicted, either after execution of the sentence or while it is in course of execution), by warrant cause him to be taken to the place of deportation.
110. The Judge of the Supreme Court may order that the person to be deported do pay all or any part of the expenses of or preliminary to his deportation.
111. The Judge of the Supreme Court shall forthwith report to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State any der of deportation made or confirmed by him and the grounds thereof, and shall also inform Her Majesty's Ministers in China and Japan of the same.
112. Where any person is deported to Hongkong, he shall on his arrival there be delivered, with the warrant under which he is deported, into the custody of the Chief Magistrate of Police of Hongkong, or other officer of Her Majesty there lawfully acting as such, who, on receipt of the person deported, with the warrant, shall detain him and shall forthwith report the case to the Goveruor or person administering the Government of Hongkong, who shall either by warrant (if the circum- stances of the case appear to him to make it expedient) cause the person so deported to be taken to England, and in the meantime to be detained in custody, (so that the period of such detention do not exceed three months), or else shall discharge Lim from custody,
113. If any person deported returns to China or Japan without the permission of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in writing under his hand (which permission the Secretary of State may give), he shall be guilty of an effence against this Order, and shall be liable on conviction thereof to punishment (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 200 dollars, or by a fine not exceeding 200 dollars, without imprisonment, and also to be forthwith again deported in manner herein-before provided.
XIV. REGISTRATION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS.
114. Every British subject resident in China or Japan,--being of the age of 21 years or upwards, --or being married, or a widower or widow, though under that age,-shall, in the month of January in the year 1866, and every subsequent year,
ister himself or herself in a register to be kept at the Consulate of the Consular district within which he or she resides,- abject to this qualification, that the registration of a man shall be deemed to include the registration of his wife (unless she living apart from him), and that the registration of the head of a family, whether male or female, shall be deemed to include e registration of all females, being relatives of the head of the family (in whatever degree of relationship), living under the me roof with the head of the family at the time of his or her registration.
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Every British subject not so resident arriving at any place in China or Japan where a Consular Office is maintained, nless borne on the muster roll of a British Vessel there arriving, shall within one month after his or her arrival, register mself or herself in a register to be kept at the Consular Office, but so that no such person shall be required to register Himself or herself inore than once in any year, reckoned from the 1st day of January.
Any person failing so to register himself or herself, and not excusing his or her failure to the satisfaction of the Consular eer, shall not be entitled to be recognized or protected as a British subject in China or Japan, and shall be liable to a fine *** exceeding ten dollars for each instance of such failure.
115. Every person shail on every registration of himself or herself pay a fee of such amount as one of Her Majesty's rincipal Secretaries of State from time to time by order under his hand appoints, such amount either to be uniform for all sons, or to vary according to the circumstances of different classes, as the Secretary of State from time to time by such der directs.
116. The Consular Officer shall issue to every person so registered a certificate of registration under his hand and sular seal; and the name of a wife (unless she is living apart from her husband) shall be indorsed on her husband's ificate; and the names and descriptions of females whose registration is included in that of the head of the family shall be dorsed on the certificate of the head of the family.
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