He shall be, at the time of his appointment, a member of the Bar of England, Scotland or Ireland, of not less than seven years' standing, or a subject who has filled the office of Assistant Judge or Law Secretary of the Supreme Court or the office of Legal Vice-Consul in the Ottoman dominions.

He may, in case of his absence or intended absence from the district of the Consulate-General of Constantinople, either in the discharge of his duty or on leave, or in case of his illness, appoint, by writing under his hand, a fit person to be his Deputy. The Deputy Judge so appointed shall have all the jurisdiction, power, and authority of Judge.

During a vacancy in the office of Judge or on emergency, a fit person, approved by the Secretary of State, may temporarily be acting Judge. The Acting Judge shall have all the jurisdiction, power, and authority of Judge. 12. The Assistant Judge shall be appointed by Her Majesty.

He shall hold by commission from Her Majesty the appointment of ViceConsul.

He shall act as Registrar of the Court.

In case of the absence or illness of the Assistant Judge, or during a vacancy in the office of Assistant Judge, or during the temporary employment of the Assistant Judge in any other capacity, the Judge may, by writing ander his hand and the seal of the Supreme Court, appoint a fit person, approved by the Secretary of State, to act temporarily as Assistant Judge. The person so appointed shall have all the jurisdiction, power, and authority of Assistant Judge.

13. The Secretary of State may, from time to time, temporarily attach to the Supreme Court such persons, being Consular Officers, as he thinks fit.

A person thus attached shall discharge such duties in connection with the Court as the Judge from time to time, with the approval of the Secretary of State, directs, and for that purpose shall have the like jurisdiction, power, and authority as the Assistant Judge.

ii.-The Chief Consular Court for Egypt.

14. There shall be a court styled Her Britannic Majesty's Chief Consular Court for Egypt (in this Order referred to as the Court for Egypt, and comprised in the term "the Court ").

*Her Majesty's Legal Vice-Consul resident in Egypt for the time being shall be the Judge of the Court; but he shall be appointed to the office of Judge by Her Majesty by a separate warrant under Her Royal sign manual.

By a subsequent Order in Council, dated 7th July 1874, this paragraph was modified as follows:

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Her Majesty's Consul at Alexandria for the time being shall be the Judge of Her Britannic Majesty's Chief Consular Court for Egypt; but he shall be appointed to the office of Judge by Her Majesty by a separate warrant under Her Royal sign manual,

He shall be, at the time of his appointment, a member of the Bar of England, Scotland or Ireland, of not less than seven years' standing, or a subject who has filled the office of Assistant Judge or Law Secretary of the Supreme Court or the office of Legal Vice-Consul in the Ottoman dominions.

During a vacancy in the office of Judge or on emergency, a fit person, approved by the Secretary of State, may temporarily be Acting Judge. The Acting Judge shall have all the jurisdiction, power, and authority of Judge.

There shall be attached to the Court a Law Secretary and so many officers and clerks as the Secretary of State from time to time thinks fit.

The Law Secretary shall be appointed by Her Majesty.

He shall hold by commission of Her Majesty the appointment of ViceConsul,

He shall act as Registrar of the Court.

In case of the absence or illness of the Law Secretary, or during a vacancy in the office of Law Secretary, or during the temporary employment of the Law Secretary in any other capacity, the Judge of the Court for Egypt may, by writing under his hand and the seal of the Court, appoint a fit person, approved by the Secretary of State, to act temporarily as Law Secretary. The person so appointed shall have all the jurisdiction, power, and authority of Law Secretary.

iii.-The Provincial Consular Courts.

15. Every commissioned Consular Officer, with such exceptions (if any) as the Secretary of State from time to time thinks fit to make, shall, for and in his own Consular district, subject to the provisions of this Order, hold and form a Court.

Every uncommissioned Consular Officer, with such exceptions (if any) as the Supreme Court, by writing under the hand of the Judge and the seal of the Court, from time to time thinks fit to make, shall, for and in his own Consular district, subject to the provisions of this Order, hold and form a Court.

Every such Court shall be styled Her Britannic Majesty's Consular Court at Smyrna or [as the case may be] (in this Order referred to as a Provincial Court, and comprised in the term "the Court").

IV. REGISTRATION OF SUBJECTS AND PROTECTED PERSONS.

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16. Every resident subject (except a native Indian subject) and protected person, being of the age of 21 years or upwards, or being married, or a widower or widow, though under that age,-shall, in January in every year, register himself or herself in a register to be kept at the Consulate of the Consular district within which he or she resides, subject to this qualification, that the registration of a man shall be deemed to comprise the registration of his wife (unless she is living apart from him), and that the registration of the head of a family, whether male or female, shall be deemed to comprise the

registration of all females, being relatives of the head of the family (in whatever degree of relationship) living under the same roof with the head of the family at the time of his or her registration.

Every non-resident subject (except a native Indian subject) and protected person, arriving in the Ottoman dominions at a place where a Consular office is maintained, unless borne on the muster roll of a British vessel there arriving, shall, within one month after his or her arrival, register himself or herself in a register to be kept at the Consular office there, but so that no person shall be required to register himself or herself more than once in any year, reckoned from the 1st of January.

Any person failing so to register himself or herself, and not excusing his or her failure to the satisfaction of the Consular Officer, shall not be entitled to be deemed a subject or protected person, and shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of Court, and shall be liable to a fine of not more than 408.

17. A native Indian subject resident in or resorting to the Ottoman dominions may, if he or she thinks fit, register himself or herself at the times and in manner aforesaid.

A native Indian subject not so registering himself or herself shall not be entitled to sue in the Court, or to receive the support or protection, of a Consular Officer, with respect to any suit or proceeding to which he or she is a party in a Court or before a Judicial Officer of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, or in a Court or before a Judicial Officer in the Ottoman dominions of a State in amity with Her Majesty; nor shall a Consular Officer exercise jurisdiction for the punishment of a crime or offence committed by a native Indian subject, unless at the date of the commission of the crime or offence he or she was so registered.

18. The Consular Officer shall give to every person registered under this Order a certificate of registration under his hand and Consular seal; and the name of a wife, unless she is living apart from her husband, shall be endorsed on her husband's certificate; and the names and descriptions of females whose registration is comprised in that of the head of the family shall be endorsed on the certificate of the head of the family.

19. Every person shall on every registration of himself or herself be liable to pay a fee of 5s.

V.-JURIES-ASSESSORS.

20. Every male resident subject, being of the age of 21 years or upwards, having a competent knowledge of the English language,-having or earning a gross income at the rate of not less than 50%. a year,-not having been attained of treason or felony or convicted of any crime that is infamous (unless he has obtained a free pardon), and not being under outlawry, shall be qualified to serve on a jury.

21. All persons so qualified shall be liable so to serve, except the following:

Persons in Her Majesty's Diplomatic, Consular, or other Civil Service in actual employment;

Officers, clerks, keepers of prisons, messengers, and other persons attached to or in the service of the Court;

Officers and others on full pay in Her Majesty's Navy or Army, or in actual employment in the service of any Department connected therewith;

Persons holding appointments in the Civil Service, and Commissioned Officers in the Naval or Military Service, of the Sublime Ottoman Porte; Clergymen and ministers in the actual discharge of professional duties; Advocates and attorneys in actual practice;

Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries in actual practice;

and except persons disabled by mental or bodily infirmity.

22. The jury list for each district shall be revised and settled not later than the 1st of March in every year, and when settled shall be affixed in some conspicuous place in the Court, and be there exhibited during not less than two months.

The list, as settled, shall be brought into use in every year on the 1st of March, and shall be used as the jury list of the district for the twelve months then next ensuing.

23. Where there is to be a hearing with a jury, the Court shall summon so many of the persons comprised in the jury list, not fewer than twelve, as seem requisite.

Any person failing to attend according to the summons shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of Court and shall be liable to such fine, of not more than 107., as the Court thinks fit to impose.

The fine shall not be levied until after the expiration of fourteen days. The proper officer of the Court shall forthwith give to the person fined notice in writing of the imposition of the fine, and require him, within six days after receipt of the notice, to file an affidavit excusing his non-attendance (if he desires to do so). The Court shall consider the affidavit, and may, if it thinks fit, remit the fine.

24. A jury shall consist of five jurors.

25. In civil and in criminal cases the like challenges shall be allowed as in England, with this addition that in civil cases each party may challenge three jurors peremptorily.

26. A jury shall be required to give an unanimous verdict.

27. An assessor shall be a competent and impartial subject, of good repute, resident in the district of the particular Court, and nominated and summoned by the Court for the purpose of acting as assessor.

28. In the Supreme Court, or in the Court for Egypt, there may be one assessor or two assessors, as the Court thinks fit.

In a Provincial Court there shall ordinarily be not fewer than two, and not more than four, assessors. Where however, by reason of local circumstances,

the Court is able to obtain the presence of one assessor only, the Court may, if it thinks fit, sit with one assessor only; and where, for like reasons, the Court is not able to obtain the presence of any assessor, the Court may, if it thinks fit, sit without an assessor, the Court, in every case, recording in the minutes its reasons for sitting with one assessor only or without an

assessor.

29. An assessor shall not have any voice in the decision of the Court in any case, civil or criminal; but an assessor dissenting in a civil case from any decision of the Court, or, in a criminal case, from any decision of the Court or the conviction or the amount of punishment awarded, may record in the minutes his dissent, and the grounds thereof, and shall be entitled to receive without payment, a certified copy of the minutes.

VI.-GENERAL AUTHORITIES AND PROCEDURE.

30. All Her Majesty's jurisdiction, civil and criminal, shall, for and within the district of the Consulate-General of Constantinople, be vested exclusively in the Supreme Court as its ordinary original jurisdiction.

31. All Her Majesty's jurisdiction, civil and criminal, not under this Order vested exclusively in the Supreme Court, shall, to the extent and in the manner provided by this Order, be vested in this Court for Egypt, and in the Provincial Courts each for and within the Consular district of the Consular Officer by whom the Provincial Court is held.

32. The Supreme Court shall have in all matters, civil and criminal, an original jurisdiction concurrent with the jurisdiction of the Court for Egypt and of the several Provincial Courts, to be exercised subject and according to the provisions of this Order.

33. The Supreme Court shall ordinarily sit at Constantinople, but may, on emergency, sit at any other place within the district of the ConsulateGeneral of Constantinople, and may at any time transfer its ordinary sittings to any such place as the Secretary of State approves.

34. The Judge of the Supreme Court may, if and when he thinks fit, visit in a magisterial or judicial capacity and place in the Ottoman dominions, and there enquire of, or hear and determine, any case, civil or criminal, or may direct the Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court to visit in the like capacity, and for the like purpose, any place in the Ottoman dominions. The Assistant Judge shall in every such case, subject to the provisions of this Order, have the like jurisdiction, power and authority, as the Judge of the Supreme Court.

35. The Court for Egypt shall have in all matters, civil and criminal, an original jurisdiction, concurrent with the jurisdiction of the several Provincial Courts in Egypt, to be exercised subject and according to the provisions of this Order.

36. The Court for Egypt shall ordinarily sit at Alexandria or Cairo, but may at any time transfer its ordinary sittings to any such place in Egypt as the Secretary of State approves.