colony to which any offender sentenced to suffer imprisonment for or in respect of any crime or offence of which he has been lawfully convicted before any Consular Court may be sent, where it is expedient that the sentence passed in the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte should be carried into effect within Her Majesty's dominions.

The Judge of the Supreme Consular Court may, where it appears to him so to be expedient as aforesaid, 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, in obedience to and in pursuance of such warrant.

XLVIII. The Judge of the Supreme Consular Court may, where it seems to him 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 dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, 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, in obedience to and in pursuance of such warrant.

XLIX. If any British subject shall be guilty of publicly deriding, mocking, or insulting any religion established or observed within the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte,-or of publicly offering any insult to any religious service, feast, or ceremony established or kept in any part of such dominions, or to any place of worship, tomb, or sanctuary belonging to any such religion, or to the ministers or professors thereof,-or shall wilfully commit any act tending to bring any such religion, or its ceremonies, mode of worship, or observances into ridicule or contempt, and thereby to provoke a breach of the public peace,—every such British subject shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to punishment (in the discretion of the court) by imprisonment for not more than two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine of not more than 1007. sterling, or a fine of 11ot more than 1007. sterling alone.

Notwithstanding anything in the present Order contained, every charge against a British subject of having committed any such offence shall be heard and determined in a summary way, and any Provincial Consular Court shall have power to impose the punishment aforesaid.

Her Majesty's Consular officers shall take such precautionary measures as may seem to them proper and expedient for the prevention of such offences.

L. (1.) Where it is shown on oath, to the satisfaction of the Supreme or other Consular Court, that there is reasonable ground. to apprehend that any British subject in the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte 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.

(2.) Where any British subject is convicted of any crime or offence before the Supreme or other Consular Court, or before a Court, in the sentence of which the Judge of the Supreme Consular Court, or any of Her Majesty's Consuls-General, Consuls, or ViceConsuls concur, the Supreme or other 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 the cases aforesaid, if the person required to give security fails so to do, the Court may order that he be deported from the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte to such place as the Court may direct: provided always, that the Court shall not, 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.

Each 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, and shall issue its warrant in that behalf.

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 as aforesaid, either after execution of the sentence or at any time while the sentence 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 shall be no such vessel available for the purpose, then on board any British, Maltese, Ionian, 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 the person to be deported and convey him in custody to the place of deportation.

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 Secretaries 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 Ottoman Porte of the same.

If any person deported returns to the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte without the permission of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (which permission the Secretary of State shall have power to give), he shall no longer be entitled to be protected as a British subject in the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

V.-Miscellaneous Provisions.

LI. Where a Consular Court proceeds 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, nevertheless, 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.

LII. In every case, civil or criminal, heard before the Supreme Consular Court, or any officer thereof, or any other Consular Court, a proper minute of the proceedings shall be drawn up, and shall be [1859-60. L.]

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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 minute, together 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.

LIII. In a civil proceeding the Supreme or other 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.

LIV. The Supreme or other Consular Court, either of its own motion, or, in civil cases, on the application of any party to any suit or proceeding or reference to arbitration, may summon as a witness any British subject within the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

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 1007. sterling, or to imprisonment for not more than 30 days, at the discretion of the court.

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

LVI. Any person appearing before the Supreme or other Consular Court to give evidence in any suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, or on any reference, may be examined or give evidence on oath, or in such form and with such ceremony as he may declare to be binding on his conscience.

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

LVIII. All costs and all charges and expenses of witnesses, prosecutions, punishments, or deportations or other charges or expenses, and all fees, fines, forfeitures, and pecuniary penalties payable under the provisions of the present 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 committed, shall be of any avail to defeat the provisions of the present Order.

LIX. All fees, pecuniary penalties, fines, and forfeitures levied under the present Order (except moneys accruing from a percentage on the estates of bankrupts or insolvents or deceased persons, or on moneys deposited with a Consular officer) shall be carried to the public account, and be applied in diminution of the public expenditure on account of the Consular service in the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

LX. Each Provincial Consular Court shall every 6 months furnish to the Supreme Consular Court a full and faithful report of every case, civil and criminal, brought before it, in such form as the Judge of the Supreme Consular Court may from time to time direct.

LXI. The provisions of the present Order, relating to British subjects, shall extend and 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 dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

The provisions of the present Order, relating to British subjects, shall also extend and apply to subjects of the United States of the Ionian Islands resident in or resorting to the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, save so far as any of such provisions confer or relate to the power of deporting from the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, or the power of imposing punishment of an amount greater than that which, at the time of the making of the present Order, can be lawfully awarded, in the case of an Ionian subject, by a Consular officer of Her Majesty resident in such dominions. And the provisions of the present Order relating to British vessels shall extend and apply to all vessels navigating under the national commercial flag of the United States of the Ionian Islands.

LXII. Every British subject arriving at any place within the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte where a British Consular office is maintained, except a British subject borne on the musterroll of a British ship there arriving, shall, within a reasonable time after his arrival (a notification of which time shall be kept exhibited in some conspicuous place in the Consular office), register himself in a register to be kept by the Consular officer.

Any British subject failing so to register himself, and not excusing his failure to the satisfaction of the Consular officer, shall not be entitled to be recognized or protected as a British subject in any difficulties in which he may be involved in the dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

The Consular officer may issue to any person so registered, on the request of such person, a certificate of registration under his hand and Consular seal, and, subject to such regulations as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may from time to time approve of, may charge upon each such certificate a fee of such