sanction of the Governor-General of India in Council, make Rules of Procedure and other Rules, consistent with this Order, for the better execution of the provisions herein contained in respect of any matter arising in the course of any civil or criminal case, including insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings.

54. (1.) Subject to the control of the Secretary of State, acting with the concurrence of the Treasury, the ConsulGeneral may, from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Governor-General of India in Council, make rules imposing fees leviable in respect of any proceedings in, or processes issued out of, the Court.

(2.) But the Court may, in any case, if it thinks fit, on account of the poverty of a party, or for any other reason, dispense in whole or in part with the payment of any fees chargeable in respect of such matter.

(3.) Nothing in this Order shall affect any Order in Council for the time being in force prescribing a table of fees to be taken by consular officers; and where a fee is taken under that Order, no fee shall be taken in respect of the same matter under this Order.

55.-(1.) All fees, charges, expenses, costs, fines, damages, and other money payable under this Order, or under any law made applicable by this Order, may be enforced under order of the Court by attachment and sale of the movable property of the person by whom they are payable, and in case of deficiency by imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, but such imprisonment shall not operate as a satisfaction or extinguishment of the liability.

(2.) Any bill of sale or mortgage, or transfer of property, made with the view of avoiding such attachment of sale, shall not be effectual to defeat the provisions of this Order.

(3.) Except as in this Order otherwise provided, all fees, penalties, fines, and forfeitures levied under this Order shall be paid to the public account, and shall be applied in such manner as the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury may direct.

56. Whenever an Acting Consul-General has commenced the hearing of any cause or matter, civil or criminal, he may, unless the Consul-General otherwise directs, continue and complete the hearing and determination thereof, notwithstanding that his authority to act as Consul-General has otherwise ceased by reason of the expiration of the time for which he was appointed to act, or by reason of the happening of any event by which his authority is determined.

57. The Consul-General shall, as far as there is proper opportunity, promote reconciliation, and encourage and facilitate the settlement in an amicable way, and

without recourse to litigation, of matters in difference between British subjects, or between British subjects and foreigners, within the limits of this Order.

58.-(1.) If an officer of the Court, employed to execute a decree or order, loses, by neglect or omission, the opportunity of executing it, then, on complaint of the person aggrieved and proof of the fact alleged, the Court may, if it thinks fit, order the officer to pay the damages sustained by the person complaining, or part thereof.

(2.) The order may be enforced as an order directing payment of money.

59.-(1.) If a clerk or officer of the Court, acting under pretence of the process or authority of the Court, is charged with extortion, or with not paying over money duly levied, or with other misconduct, the Court may, if it thinks fit, enquire into the charge in a summary way, and may for that purpose summon and enforce the attendance of all necessary persons as in a suit, and may make such order for the repayment of any money extorted, or for the payment over of any money levied, and for the payment of such damages and costs as the Court thinks fit.

(2.) The Court may also, as it thinks fit, on the same enquiry, impose on the clerk or officer such fine, not exceeding 25 Kashgar taels, for each offence, as the Court thinks fit.

(3.) A clerk or officer punished under this article shall not, without the leave of the Court, be liable to a civil suit in respect of the same matter; and any such suit, if already or afterwards begun, may be stayed by the Court in such manner and on such terms as the Court thinks fit.

(4.) Nothing in this article shall be deemed to prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other British or British Indian law for any act or omission punishable under this article, or from being liable under that other law to any other or higher punishment or penalty than that provided by this article:

Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence.

60. The Court shall have jurisdiction from time to time to make an order requiring a person to contribute, in such manner as the Court directs, to the support of his wife, or to the support of his or her child, whether legitimate or not, being, in the opinion of the Court, under the age of 16 years. Any such order may be made in a summary way, as if the neglect to provide for the support of such wife or child were an offence, and any failure to comply with any such order shall be deemed to be an offence, and shall be punishable with a fine not exceeding 5 Kashgar taels for any one default, and the Court may direct any penalty imposed for such

offence to be applied for the support of such wife or child in such manner as the Court thinks fit.

61. The Consul-General under this Order shall have power to make and alter Regulations (to be called King's Regulations) for the following purposes (that is to say):

(a.) For the peace, order, and good government of British subjects within any such place in relation to matters not provided for by this Order and to matters intended by this Order to be prescribed by Regulation.

(b.) For securing the observance of any Treaty or arrangement, for the time being in force, relating to any place within the limits of this Order, or of any native or local law or custom, whether relating to trade, commerce, revenue, or any other

matter.

(c.) For applying, amending, modifying, or repealing with respect to Kashgar any Acts or enactments which apply or are made applicable or have been brought into operation in Kashgar by or under any of the provisions of Article 8 of this Order.

(d.) For regulating or preventing the importation or exportation by British subjects of arms or munitions of war, or any parts or ingredients thereof, and for giving effect to any Treaty relating to the importation or exportation of the same.

(e.) For requiring returns to be made of the nature, quantity, and value of articles exported from or imported into Kashgar by or on account of any British subject who is subject to this Order, and for prescribing the times and manner at or in which and the persons by whom such returns are to be made.

(f.) For the governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of prisons.

62.-(1.) Any Regulations made under the preceding article may provide for forfeiture of any goods, receptacles, or things in relation to which, or the contents of which, any breach is committed of such Regulations, or of any Treaty or any native or local law or custom, the observance of which is provided for by such Regulations.

(2.) Any person committing a breach of any such Regulations shall, in addition to any forfeiture prescribed thereby, be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or a fine, or to both.

(3.) Any fine imposed for a breach of Regulations shall not exceed 750 Kashgar taels: Provided that in the case of any breach of any native or local law relating to customs law, or under which the importation or exportation of any goods is prohibited or restricted, the fine may extend to a sum equivalent to treble the value of the goods in relation to which the breach is committed.

(4.) King's Regulations shall not take effect until they are allowed by a Secretary of State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, by the Governor-General of India in Council: Provided that in case of urgency declared in any such Regulations the same shall take effect before such allowance, and shall continue to have effect unless and until they are disallowed by the Secretary of State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, by the Governor-General of India in Council, and until notification of such disallowance is received and published by the Consul-General, and such disallowance shall be without prejudice to anything done or suffered under such Regulations in the meantime.

(5.) All King's Regulations shall be published by the Consul-General in such manner and at such places as he may think proper.

(6.) In this article "breach of the Regulations" includes the breach of any native or local law or custom, the observance of which is required by any King's Regulations.

63. Judicial notice shall be taken of this Order, and of the commencement thereof, and of the appointment of the Consul-General, and of the constitution of the Court, and of consular seals and signatures, and of any Rules and Regulations made or in force under this Order, and no proof shall be required of any of such matters.

64. Nothing in this Order shall deprive the Consul-General of the right to observe, and to enforce the observance of, or shall deprive any person of the benefit of, any reasonable custom existing within the limits of this Order, unless this Order contains some express and specific provision incompatible with the observance thereof.

65. Nothing in this Order shall—

(i.) Affect any power or jurisdiction conferred by, or refered to in, the Act of the Governor-General of India in Council, entitled The Foreign Jurisdiction and Extradition Act, 1879" (Act XXI of 1879), or in "The Indian (Foreign Jurisdiction) Order in Council, 1902"; or

(ii) Affect any jurisdiction for the time being exercisable by the Consul-General under any Imperial Act other than "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890"; or

(iii.) Prevent the Consul-General from doing anything which His Majesty's Consuls in the dominions of any State in amity with His Majesty are for the time being, by law, usage, or sufferance, entitled or enabled to do.

66. If a question arises whether any place is or is not within the limits of this Order for the purposes of this Order, it shall be referred to the Consul-General, and a certificate under his hand and seal shall be conclusive on the question, and shall be taken judicial notice of by the Chief Court of the Punjab and by the Court.

67. Not later than the 31st day of March in each year, or such other day as the Secretary of State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, the Governor-General of India in Council, directs from time to time, the Consul-General shall send to the Governor-General of India in Couneil, for transmission to the Secretary of State, a report on the operation of this Order up to the 31st day of December in the previous year, or such other date as the Secretary of State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, the GovernorGeneral of India in Council, directs from time to time, showing for the last twelve months the number and nature of the proceedings, 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 information, and being in such form as the Secretary of State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, the Governor-General of India in Council, from time to time directs.

68.(1.) 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 open to inspection, free of charge, in the office of the Consul-General.

(2.) Printed copies thereof shall be sold within the limits of this Order at such reasonable price as the Consul-General from time to time directs.

69.--(1.) This Order shall be published in the "Gazette of India within such time after the passing thereof as the Secretary of State may prescribe, and shall come into force on such day (in this Order referred to as the commencement of this Order) within six months after that publication, as the Governor-General of India in Council may, by notification in the said "Gazette," appoint in this behalf.

(2.) But any appointment under this Order may be made. at any time after its passing, and no proof shall, in any proceedings, be required of any of the matters prescribed by

this article.

70.—(1.) As from the commencement of this Order the Orders in Council mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Order shall be repealed within the limits of this Order; but this repeal shall not

(a.) Affect the past operation of those Orders, or any of them, or any appointment made, or any right, title, obligation, or liability accrued, or the validity or invalidity of anything done or suffered under any of those Orders, before the making of this Order;

(b.) Interfere with the institution or prosecution of any proceeding or action, criminal or civil, in respect of any offence committed against, or forfeiture incurred or liability