16. 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, Officers and others on full pay in Her Majesty's Advocates and attorneys in actual practice; And except persons disabled by mental or bodily infirmity. 17. On or before the fourteenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and on or before the fourteenth day of January, in every subsequent year, each Consular Court shall make out a list of the persons so qualified and liable, resident within its district. The list shall, on or before the twenty-first day of the same respective month, be affixed in some conspicuous place in the Court, and shall be there exhibited until the thirty-first day of that month, with a notice annexed that on a day specified, not being sooner than the seventh or later than the fourteenth day of the then next month, the Court will hold a special sitting for the revision of the list. The Court shall hold such special sitting accordingly, and at such sitting, or at some adjournment thereof (of which public notice shall be given), shall revise the list by striking out the name of any person appearing to be not qualified or not liable to serve, and by inserting the name of any person omitted and appearing to be so qualified and liable, either on the application of the person omitted, or on such notice to him as the Court may direct. The list shall be finally revised and settled not later than the twenty-first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and not later than the twenty-first day of February, in every subsequent year, and when settled shall be affixed in some conspicuous place in the Court, and be there exhibited during not less than two months. Such list, as settled in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in every subsequent year respectively, shall be brought into use, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, on the first day of May, and in every subsequent year on the first day of March, and shall be used as the Jury List of the Court, as to the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three for the ten months, and as to every subsequent year for the twelve months, then next ensuing. 18. Where, in pursuance of this Order, a jury is required, the Court shall summon so many of the persons comprised in the jury list, not fewer than fifteen, as may seem requisite. Any person failing to attend according to such summons shall be liable to such fine of not more than ten pounds sterling, as the Court may impose. Any such 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 desire to so do). The Court shall consider the affidavit, and may, if it seems proper, remit the fine. 19. A jury shall consist of five jurors. 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. A jury shall be required to give an unanimous verdict. Where there is a jury, all the proceedings at the trial shall be conducted in English,-evidence, if given in any other language, being interpreted in the usual way. 20. Where a Provincial Consular Court (not held before a resident Legal Vice-Consul) proceeds, in pursuance of this Order, to hear and determine any case, civil or criminal, with Assessors, the Court shall nominate and summon as Assessors not less than two and not more than four indifferent British subjects of good repute, resident in the district of the Court. Where, however, by reason of local circumstances, the Court is able to obtain the presence of one fit person only as Assessor, the Court may sit with him alone as Assessor, and where for like reasons it is not able to obtain the presence of any fit person as Assessor, it may sit without an Assessor; but in every such case the Court shall record in the minutes of proceedings its reasons for sitting with one Assessor only, or without an Assessor. An Assessor shall not have voice or vote 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 of proceedings his dissent and the grounds thereof, and an Assessor dissenting shall be entitled to receive gratis a certified copy of the minutes. V.-JURISDICTION AND AUTHORITIES OF THE CONSULAR Courts. 1.-IN GENERAL. 21. All Her Majesty's jurisdiction, civil and criminal, exerciseable in the Ottoman dominions shall, for and within the district of the ConsulateGeneral of Constantinople, be vested exclusively in the Supreme Consular Court as its ordinary original jurisdiction. 22. All Her Majesty's jurisdiction, civil and criminal, exerciseable in the Ottoman dominions beyond the district of the Consulate-General of Constantinople, and not under this Order vested exclusively in the Supreme Consular Court, shall, to the extent and in the manner provided by this Order, be vested in the Provincial Consular Courts each for and within its own district. 23. The Supreme Consular Court shall have, in all matters civil and criminal, an original jurisdiction concurrent with the jurisdiction of the several Provincial Consular Courts, such concurrent jurisdiction to be exercised subject and according to the other provisions of this Order. 24. The Judge of the Supreme Consular Court may visit, or appoint the Legal Vice-Consul or the Law Secretary of the Supreme Consular Court to visit, in a magisterial or judicial capacity, any Provincial Consular Court, and there inquire of, or hear and determine, any case, civil or criminal, pending in that Court, or arising within its district,-or may appoint the resident Legal Vice-Consul of any Provincial Consular Court to visit in like manner any Provicial Consular Court where there is not a resident Legal Vice-Consul. 25. A Provincial Consular Court may, of its own motion, or on the application of any person concerned, report to the Supreme Consular Court the pendency of any case, civil, or criminal, which appears to the Provincial Consular Court fit to be heard and determined by the Supreme Consular Court. The Supreme Consular Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined. 26. Every Consular Court shall, in the exercise. of every part of its respective jurisdiction, be a Court of Record. 27. Each Provincial Consular Court shall execute any writ or order issuing from the Supreme. Consular Court, and take security from any person named in any writ or order for his appearance personally or by attorney, and in default of such security being given, or when specially ordered by the Supreme Consular Court so to do, send such person to Constantinople on board one of Her Majesty's vessels of war, or if there is no such vessel available, then on board any British or other fit vessel. The order of the Supreme Consular Court shall be sufficient authority to the commander or master of such vessel of war or other vessel to receive and detain such person, and carry him to and deliver him up at Constantinople according to the order. 28. The several Consular Courts shall be auxiliary to one another in all particulars relative to the administration of justice, civil or criminal. 29. Each Provincial Consular Court shall, every |