and order an entry to be made in the minutes of proceedings that in the judgment of the Supreme Consular Court the person ought not to have been convicted, or arrest the judgment,-or order judgment to be given at a subsequent sitting of the Court or Officer by whom the case is stated, or make such other order as justice may require, and shall also give all necessary and proper consequential directions.

72. The judgment of the Supreme Consular Court shall be delivered in open court after the public hearing of any argument offered on behalf of the prosecution or of the person convicted.

73. Before delivering judgment, the Supreme Consular Court may, if necessary, cause the special case to be amended by the Court or Consular Officer by whom it was stated.

XII.-APPEAL TO HER MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

74. Where any decision of the Supreme Consular Court is given in a civil case in respect of a sum or matter at issue of the amount or value of five hundred pounds sterling or upwards,-or determines directly or indirectly any claim or question respecting property or any civil right of the amount or value of five hundred pounds sterling or upwards,-any party aggrieved by the decision may, within fifteen days after the same is given, apply by motion to the Supreme Consular Court for leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council,

If leave to appeal is applied for by a party adjudged to pay money or perform a duty, the Supreme Consular Court shall direct either that the decision appealed from be carried into execution, or that the execution thereof be suspended, pending the appeal, as the Court may consider to be consistent with real and substantial justice.

If the Court directs the decision to be carried into execution, the party in whose favour it is given shall, before the execution of it, give security to the satisfaction of the Court for the due performance of such order as Her Majesty in Council may think fit to make.

If the Court directs the execution of the decision to be suspended pending the appeal, the party against whom the decision is given shall, before any order for suspension of execution, give security to the satisfaction of the Court for the due performance of such order as Her Majesty in Council may think fit to make.

In all cases security shall also be given by the appellant to the satisfaction of the Court to an amount not exceeding five hundred pounds sterling, for the prosecution of the appeal, and for payment of all such costs as may be awarded to any respondent by Her Majesty in Council, or by the Lords of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council.

If the last-mentioned security is given within one month from the filing of the motion-paper for leave to appeal, then, and not otherwise, the Supreme Consular Court shall give leave to appeal, and the appellant shall be at liberty to prefer and prosecute his appeal to Her Majesty in Council according to the rules for the time being in force respecting appeals to Her Majesty in Council from her colonies, or such other rules as Her Majesty in Council may from time to time think fit to make concerning appeals from the Supreme Consular Court.

În any case other than the cases hereinbefore described, the Supreme Consular Court, if it considers it just or expedient to do so, may give leave to appeal on the terms and in the manner aforesaid.

This Order shall not affect the right of Her

Majesty at any time, on the humble petition of a party aggrieved by a decision of the Supreme Consular Court, to admit his appeal thereon, on such terms and in such manner as Her Majesty in Council may think fit, and to deal with the decision appealed from in such manner as may be just.

XIII.-RULES.

75. The Judge of the Supreme Consular Court may, notwithstanding anything herein contained, at any time after the making of this Order, and from time to time, frame Rules for the effectual execution of this Order, and for the observance of the Capitulations, Articles of Peace, and Treaties between Her Majesty and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, and for the maintenance of order among British subjects in the Ottoman dominions, and may thereby impose reasonable penalties; and also Rules for the regulation of procedure and pleading, forms of writs, and other proceedings, expenses of witnesses and prosecutions, costs and fees, in civil and criminal cases, in the Supreme Consular Court and other Consular Courts, and the regulation of appeals to the Supreme Consular Court from the other Consular Courts.

The Rules affecting the conduct of civil suits shall be so framed as to secure, as far as may be, that cases shall be decided on their merits according to substantial justice without excessive regard to technicalities of pleading or procedure and without unnecessary delay.

No Rules shall take effect unless and until approved by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

A copy of the Rules for the time being in force shall be exhibited in some conspicuous place in each Consular Court and Consulate in

the Ottoman dominions. Printed copies shall be provided and sold at such reasonable price as the Judge of the Supreme Consular Court shall from time to time direct.

No penalty shall be enforced in any Court for the breach of any Rule until the Rule has been so exhibited in the Court for one month.

For the purpose of convicting any person committing a breach of any Rule, and for all other purposes of law, a printed copy of the Rule, purporting to be certified under the hand of the Judge of the Supreme Consular Court, and the seal of the Court, or under the hand and Consular seal of one of Her Majesty's Consular Officers, shall be taken as conclusive evidence of the same, and no proof of the handwriting or seal purporting to certify the same, shall be required.

XIV. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

76. In every case, civil or criminal, heard in a Consular Court, proper minutes of the proceedings shall be drawn up, and shall be signed by the Judge or Consular Officer before whom the proceedings are taken, and sealed with the seal of the Court, and shall, where Assessors are present, be open for their inspection and for their signature, if concurred in by them.

The minutes, with depositions of witnesses and notes of evidence taken at the trial by the Judge or Consular Officer, shall be preserved in the public office of the Court.

77. In a civil case a Consular Court may order such costs, or costs, charges, and expenses as to the Court seem reasonable, to be paid by any party to the proceeding, or out of any fund to which the proceeding relates.

78. A Consular Court, either of its own motion, or in civil cases, on the application of any party to any suit or proceeding or reference,

may summon as a witness any British subject in the Ottoman dominions,-but so that a Provincial Consular Court shall have power so to summon British subjects in its own district only.

Any British subject, duly served with such a summons, and with reasonable notice of the time and place at which his attendance is required, failing to attend accordingly, and not excusing his failure to the satisfaction of the Court, shall, over and above any other liability to which he may be subject, be liable to a fine of not more than one hundred pounds sterling, or to imprisonment for not more than one month, in the discretion of the Court.

79. In civil cases a Consular Court may, where the circumstances appear to justify it, order that the expenses of a witness, on his appearing to give evidence, shall be defrayed by the parties, or any of them.

80. Any person appearing before a Consular Court to give evidence in any case, civil or criminal, may be examined or give evidence on oath in such form or with such ceremony as he may declare to be binding on his conscience.

81. Any British subject wilfully giving false evidence in any suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, or on any reference, shall be liable to the penalties attaching to wilful and corrupt perjury.

82. All costs and all charges and expenses of witnesses, prosecutions, punishments, and deportations, and other charges and expenses, and all fees, fines, forfeitures, and pecuniary penalties payable under this Order, may be levied by distress and seizure and sale of ships, goods, and lands; and no bill of sale, or mortgage, or transfer of property, made with a view to security in regard to crimes or offences committed, or to be