At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of January, 1863. PRESENT, The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Order in Council, dated, at Windsor, the thirtieth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two (reciting certain provisions of an Act, passed in the fiftyninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act to prevent "the enlisting or engagement of Her Majesty's "Subjects to serve in Foreign Service, and the "fitting out or equipping in Her Majesty's "dominions vessels for warlike purposes, without "Her Majesty's licence)"; Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, being desirous of enabling Her subjects to engage in and enter the naval and military service of the Emperor of China, was pleased to order, and it was thereby ordered, that from and after the first day of September then next, it should be lawful for Horatio Nelson Lay, one of Her Majesty's subjects, and Sherard Osborn, a Captain in Her Majesty's Navy, to enter into the military and naval service of the said Emperor, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for their services, and to fit out, equip, purchase, and acquire ships or vessels of war for the use of the said Emperor, and to engage and enlist British subjects to enter the military and naval service of the said Emperor. And it was thereby further ordered, that it should be lawful for every British subject to enlist and enter himself, by engaging and enlisting himself with the said Horatio Nelson Lay and Sherard Osborn, and no other person or persons whatsoever, in the military and naval service of the said Emperor, and to serve the said Emperor in any military, warlike, or other operations, either by land, or by sea, and, for that purpose, to go to any place or places beyond the seas, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment from or under the said emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for his service: Provided always, that the licence and permission thereby given should be in force only for the term of two years from the said first day of September then next, unless by Order in Council, made in manner aforesaid, such period should be further extended; And whereas Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is desirous of extending and enlarging the permission and licence contained in the said Order in Council. Her Majesty is therefore pleased to Order, and it is hereby Ordered, that, from and after the sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, it shall be lawful for all military officers in Her Majesty's service to enter into the military service of the said Emperor, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for their services. And it is hereby ordered, that it shall be lawful for all officers in Her Majesty's military service to serve the said Emperor in any military, warlike, or other operations, and for that purpose to go to any place or places beyond the seas, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment from or under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for their services: Provided always, that the licence and permission hereby given shall be in force only until the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, unless by Order in Council, made in manner aforesaid, such period should be further extended. Edmund Harrison. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of January, 1863. PRESENT, The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by the Act of the Session of Parliament of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's reign (Chapter ninety-four), "to remove doubts as to the exercise of power "and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers "countries and places out of Her Majesty's "dominions and to render the same more effec"tual," hereinafter called The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, it was enacted (among other things) that it was and should be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty then had or might at any time thereafter have within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory: And whereas Her Majesty has had and now has power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte: And whereas Her Majesty was pleased on the twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make, by Order in Council dated that day, provision for the exercise of Her power and jurisdiction aforesaid: And whereas it has seemed to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to be expedient at the present time to revise the provisions of the said Order, and to make further provision for the due exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid, and for the more regular and efficient administration of justice and the better maintenance of order among all classes of Her Majesty's subjects and of persons enjoying Her Majesty's protection resident in or resorting to the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by The Foreign Jurisdiction Act or otherwise in Her vested, is pleased by and with the advice of Her Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: I. PRELIMINARY. 1. This Order shall come into operation on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. 2. The Order of the twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, shall be repealed. This repeal shall not affect the past operation of that Order, or any appointment made or thing done under it. Pending proceedings shall be regulated by this Order as far as the nature and circumstance of each case admit. 3. In this Order the term "the Ottoman dominions" means the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte; the term "month" means calendar month; words importing the plural or the singular may be construed as referring to one person or thing, or more than one person or thing, and words importing the masculine as referring to females (as the case may require). 4. The provisions of this Order relating to British subjects apply to all subjects of Her Majesty, whether by birth or by naturalization, and also to all persons enjoying Her Majesty's protection in the Ottoman dominions. The provisions of this Order relating to British subjects shall also, until it is otherwise ordered, extend to subjects of the United States of the Ionian Islands, resident in or resorting to the Ottoman dominions, except in the following particulars : (1.) So far as those provisions relate to trial in civil cases with a jury (with respect to which Ionian subjects shall be in the same position as foreigners), or to the serving on juries in civil cases: (2.) So far as those provisions confer or relate to the power of imposing punishment of an amount greater than that which can now be lawfully awarded in the case of an Ionian subject by a Consular Officer of Her Majesty in the Ottoman dominions: (3.) So far as those provisions confer or relate to the power of deporting from the Ottoman dominions. The provisions of this Order relating to British vessels extend to vessels navigating under the national commercial flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands. The provisions of this Order relating to foreigners apply to subjects of the Sublime Ottoman Porte and subjects or citizens of any other Power or State (not being enemies of Her Majesty). II. GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING HER MAJESTY'S JURISDICTION. 5. All Her Majesty's jurisdiction exercisable in the Ottoman dominions for the judicial hearing |