the Supreme Consular Court, cause the accused to be sent for trial to Malta accordingly.

Such warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed, to receive and detain the person therein named, and carry him to, and deliver him up at Malta, according to the warrant.

Where any person is to be so sent to Malta, the Consular Court before which he is charged shall take the preliminary examination, and shall bind over such of the proper witnesses as may be British subjects in their own recognizances to appear and give evidence on the trial.

46. A Consular Court may promote reconciliation and encourage and facilitate the settlement in an amicable way of proceedings for assault or any other offence not amounting to felony, and being of a private or personal character, on terms of payment of compensation or other terms that may seem reasonable or expedient, and may thereupon order the proceedings to be stayed.

47. All crimes which in England are capital shall be tried by the judge of the Supreme Consular Court with a jury.

Other crimes and offences above the degree of misdemeanour, tried before the judge or any officer of the Supreme Consular Court, and not heard and determined in a summary way, shall be tried with a jury.

Any crime or offence tried before the judge or any officer of the Supreme Consular Court may be tried with a jury where the judge or other officer so directs.

Subject to the foregoing provisions, such classes of criminal cases within the original jurisdiction (ordinary or concurrent) of the Supreme Consular Court as the judge, having regard to the law and practice existing in England, may from time to time direct, shall be heard and determined in a summary way.

48. The Supreme Consular Court may impose the punishment of imprisonmont for any term not exceeding 20 years, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 5001. sterling, or the punishment of a fine alone not exceeding 500l. sterling.

49. Where any person is convicted of murder, the proper officer of the court, under the direction of the judge, shall, in open court, require the offender to state if he has anything to say why judgment of death should not be recorded against him. If such offender does not allege anything that would be sufficient in law to prevent such judgment if the offence had been committed and the trial had been had in England, the Court may order such judgment to be entered on record.

Thereupon the proper officer shall enter judgment of death on record against such offender, as if judgment of death had been actually pronounced against him in open court by the court.

The judge of the Supreme Consular Court shall forthwith send

a report of every such judgment, with a copy of the minutes of proceedings and notes of evidence and any observations he may think fit to make, to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for his direction as to the punishment to be actually imposed, such actual punishment not to exceed the measure of imprisonment and fine mentioned in Article 48.

50. Where a provincial Consular Court is held before a resident legal Vice-Consul, crimes and offences above the degree of misdemeanor, tried before the court, and not heard and determined in a summary way, shall be tried with a jury.

Any crime or offence may be tried with a jury where the court so directs.

Subject to the foregoing provisions, such classes of criminal cases as the judge of the Supreme Consular Court, with the advice and assistance of the resident Legal Vice-Consul, having regard to the law and practice existing in England, may from time to time direct, shall be heard and determined in a summary way.

51. A Provincial Consular Court held before a resident Legal Vice-Consul may impose the punishment of imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 1007. sterling, or the punishment of a fine alone not exceeding 100%. sterling.

52. Where the crime or offence with which any person is charged before a Provincial Consular Court, not held before a resident Legal Vice-Consul, is any crime or offence other than assault endangering life, cutting, maiming, arson, or housebreaking, and appears to the court to be such that, if proved, it would be adequately punished by imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for not more thay 3 months, or by a fine of not more than 257. sterling, the court shall hear and determine the case in a summary way and without

assessors.

In other cases the court shall hear and determine the case on indictment and with assessors.

53. A Provincial Consular Court not held before a resident Legal Vice-Consul may impose the punishment of imprisonment for any term not exceeding 12 months, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine of 501. sterling, or the punishment of a fine alone not exceeding 507. sterling.

54. Where the crime or offence with which any person is charged before a Provincial Consular Court appears to the court to be such that, if proved, it would not be adequately punished by such punishment as the court has power to impose, and the accused is not to be sent for trial to England or Malta, the court shall reserve the case to be heard and determined by or under the special authority of the Supreme Consular Court.

The Provincial Consular Court shall take the depositions, and forthwith send them, with a minute of other evidence, if any, and a report on the case, to the Supreme Consular Court.

The Supreme Consular Court shall direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined.

55. The Supreme and every other Consular Court in imposing punishments shall have regard, as far as circumstances admit, and subject to the other provisions of this Order, to the punishments imposed by the law of England in like cases.

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56. A Consular Court may order any person convicted before it any crime or offence to pay all or any part of the expenses of his trial and imprisonment or other punishment.

Where it appears to the court that a charge is malicious, or frivolous and vexatious, the court may order all or any part of the expenses of the prosecution to be paid by the prosecutor.

57. Where the circumstances of the case render it just or expedient, the judge of the Supreme Consular Court may report to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State recommending a mitigation or remission of any punishment awarded by the Supreme or any other Consular Court; and on such recommendation any such punishment may be mitigated or remitted.

But no such recommendation shall be made with respect to any punishment awarded by a Provincial Consular Court, except on the recommendation of that court, or on the dissent of the assessors or assessor, if any, from the conviction or from the amount of punishment awarded.

58. The judge of the Supreme Consular Court may, where it seems expedient, by warrant under his hand and the seal of the Supreme Consular Court, cause any offender convicted before any Consular Court, and sentenced to imprisonment, to be sent to and imprisoned at any such place in the Ottoman dominions, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, from time to time, approve.

Such warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed, to receive and detain the person therein named and carry him to and deliver him up at such place, according to the

warrant.

59. Malta shall be (under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, section v) the British colony to which any offender sentenced to suffer imprisonment in respect of any crime or offence of which he is convicted before any Consular Court may be sent, where it is expedient that the sentence passed in the Ottoman dominions should be carried into effect within Her Majesty's dominions.

The judge of the Supreme Consular Court may, where it appears so expedient, by warrant under his hand and seal and the seal of

the Supreme Consular Court, cause such offender to be sent to Malta, in order that the sentence passed upon him may be there carried into effect accordingly.

Such warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named and carry him to and deliver him up at Malta, according to the

warrant.

60. The Supreme Consular Court shall forthwith send to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State a report of the sentence passed by the judge or any officer of the court in every case not heard and determined in a summary way, with a copy of the minutes of proceedings and notes of evidence, and any observations the court may think fit to make.

Every Provincial Consular Court shall forthwith send to the Supreme Consular Court a report of the sentence passed by it in every case not heard and determined in a summary way, with a copy of the minutes of proceedings and notes of evidence, and any servations the court may think fit to make. The Supreme Consular Court shall forthwith transmit the same, with any observations the court may think fit to make, to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

VI.-Deportation of Offenders.

61. (i.) Where it is shown on oath, to the satisfaction of a Consular Court, that there is reasonable ground to apprehend that any British subject in the Ottoman dominions is about to commit a breach of the public peace, or that the acts or conduct of any such British subject are or is likely to produce or excite to a breach of the public peace,-the court may cause him to be brought before it, and require him to give security to the satisfaction of the court, to keep the peace, or for his future good behaviour, as the case may require;

(ii) Where any British subject is convicted of any crime or offence before a Consular Court, or before a court in the sentence of which one of Her Majesty's Consular Officers concurs, the Consular Court for the district in which he happens to be may require him to give security to the satisfaction of the court for his future good behaviour.

In either of these cases, if the person required to give security fails to do so, the court may order that he be deported from the Ottoman dominions to such place as the court may direct.

The court shall not, however, without the consent of the person to be deported, direct the deportation of a native of Malta or any of its dependencies to any place other than Malta; or of a native of Gibraltar to any place other than Gibraltar; or of a native of any

part of Her Majesty's dominions other than Malta, its dependencies, or Gibraltar, to any place other than England.

A provincial Consular Court shall forthwith report to the Supreme Consular Court any order of deportation made by it, and the grounds thereof. The Supreme Consular Court may reverse the order, or may confirm it with or without variation, and in case of confirmation, shall direct it to be carried into effect.

The person to be deported shall be detained in custody until a fit opportunity for his deportation occurs.

He shall, as soon as may be practicable (and in the case of a person convicted, either after execution of the sentence or while it is in course of execution), be embarked in custody under the warrant of the Supreme Consular Court 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 bound to the place of deportation.

The warrant of the court shall be sufficient authority to the commander or master of such vessel of war, or other vessel, to receive and detain the person to be deported, and carry him to and deliver him up at the place of deportation, according to the

warrant.

The Supreme or other Consular Court may order the person to be deported to pay all or any part of the expenses of his deportation. Subject thereto, the expenses of deportation shall be defrayed as the expenses relating to distressed British subjects are defrayed, or in such other manner as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary's of State may from time to time direct.

The Supreme Consular Court shall forthwith report to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State any order of deportation made or confirmed by it, and the grounds thereof, and shall also inform Her Majesty's Ambassador, Minister, or Chargé d'Affaires at the Sublime Porte of the saine,

If any person deported returns to the Ottoman dominions without the permission of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (which permission the Secretary of State may give) he shall be liable on conviction thereof to punishment (in the discretion of the court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for not more than one month, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine of not more than 107, sterling, or by a fine of not more than 207. sterling alone, and also to be forthwith again. deported in manner hereinbefore provided.

VII-Registration of Residents and others.

62. Every British subject resident in the Ottoman dominions, being of the age of 21 years or upwards, or being married or a widower or widow, though under that age, shall, in the year 1863,