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'File 18/56 I (B 70) The Trucial Coast Order in Council; File 18/51 I (B 70) The Ottoman Order in Council, 1910; File 18/131 I (B 70)The Foreign Jurisdiction (Military Forces) Order in Council, 1927' [97v] (209/250)
The record is made up of 1 volume (122 folios). It was created in 6 Nov 1910-7 Dec 1943. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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P art VII.—M iscellaneous.
144. The Ambassador shall, with reference to the Ottoman dominions, other than
Egypt, have power to make Regulations (to be called King's Regulations) for the follow
ing purposes, that is to say :—
(a) For the peace, order, and good government of Bfritish subjects in the Ottoman
dominions in relation to matters not provided for by this Order.
{b) For securing the observance of any Treaty for the time being in force relating
to any place in the Ottoman dominions, or of any local law or custom,
whether relating to trade, commerce, revenue, or any other matter.
[c] For preventing the importation or exportation in British ships or by British
subjects of any munitions of war, or any parts or ingredients thereof, and for
giving effect to any Treaty relating to the importation or exportation of the
same.
{d) For requiring Returns to be made of the nature, quantity, and value of articles
exported from or imported into his district, or any part thereof, by or on
account of any British subject who is subject to this Order, or in any British
ship and for prescribing the times and manner at or in which, and the
persons by whom, such Returns are to be made.
(2) Any Regulations made under this Article may provide for forfeiture of any goods,
receptacles, or things in relation to which, or to the contents of which, any breach is
committed of such Regulations, or of any Treaty or any local law or custom, the observance
of which is provided for by such Regulations.
(3) Any person committing a breach of any such Regulations shall, on conviction, be
liable to the punishment, forfeiture, or fine therein prescribed, or, if no such punishment or
fine is prescribed, he shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment, with or without hard
labour, for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine or both. Regulations impos
ing penalties shall be so framed as to allow in every case of part only of the highest penalty
being imposed.
(4) The Agent for Egypt shall, with reference to Egypt, have a like power to make
King's Regulations.
— (1) Regulations made under this Order shall not have effect unless and until
they are approved by a Secretary of State—save that in case of urgency declared in any
such Regulations, the same shall take effect before that approval, and shall continue to have
effect unless and until they are disapproved by a Secretary of State, and until notification
of that disapproval has been received and published by the Ambassador or by the Agent
for Egypt respectively,
(2) That approval, where given, sh^ll be conclusive, and the validity or regularity of
any Regulations so approved shall not be called in question in any legal proceeding
whatever.
146.—(1) All Regulations approved, under this Order, whether imposing penalties or
not, shall be printed, and a printed copy thereof shall be affixed, and be at all times kept
exhibited conspicuously, in the public office of each Consulate in the Ottoman dominions.
(2) Printed copies of the Regulations shall be kept on sale at such reasonable price
as the Ambassador and the Agent for Egypt respectively from time to time direct.
(3) A printed copy of any Regulations purporting to be made under this Order, and
to be certified under the hand of the Ambassador or the Agent for Egypt respectively, or
under the hand and Consular seal of one of His Majesty^s Consular officers in the Ottoman
dominions, shall be conclusive evidence of the due making of such Regulations.
147. The respective powers aforesaid extend to the making of Regulations for the
governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of prisons in the Ottoman dominions, for
the removal of prisoners from one prison to another, and for the infliction of corporal or other
punishment on prisoners committing offences against the rules or discipline of a prison ; but
the provisions of this Order respecting penalties, and respecting the printing, affixing,
exhibiting, and sale of Regulations, and the mode of trial of charges of offences against
Regulations, do not apply to Regulations respecting prisons and offences of prisoners.
148. Nothing in this Order shall deprive the Court of the right to observe, and to
enforce the observance of, or shall deprive any person of the benefit of, any reasonable
custom existing in the Ottoman dominions, unless this Order contains some express and
specific provision incompatible with the observance thereof.
149. Nothing in this Order shall prevent any Consular officer in the Ottoman domin
ions from doing anything which His Majesty's Consuls in the dominions of any other State
in amity with His Majesty are, for the time being, by law, usage, or sufferance, entitled
or enabled to do.
150.—(1) His Majesty's Consuls in the Ottoman dominions may levy dues not
exceeding the rate of 2d. a ton on every British merchant-ship [a) visiting or passing
Constantinople, or visiting any other port in a Consular district, or {b) being at any other
place within the Consular district or Constantinople, and having occasion to send any
seamen to the British hospital at Constantinople,
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The volume consists of three files, which have been brought together to form a single volume. The first file ('File 18/56 I, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. ') runs mostly from May 1911 - July 1912, then contains three documents and two pages of file notes dated December 1943 - January 1944. The file consists of papers relating to the judicial powers that could be exercised by the British on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. in the light of various incidents dating back to 1909 (including two documents in Arabic), draft order in council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , and associated papers, May 1911-July 1912; and papers relating to a request by the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to the Government of India to forward a copy of Government of India, Foreign Department Notification No 202-E.P. of 6 October 1881 relating to the judicial powers of officers of the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , December 1943 - January 1944.
The second file ('File 18/51 I The Ottoman Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. ') includes printed correspondence relating to British extra-territorial jurisdiction in Turkey in the light of the arrest of certain British Indian subjects at Basra,1910; a copy of the Ottoman Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , dated 1910; and associated correspondence including records of the order's forwarding to and display in various British agencies and consulates in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region by the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and Consulate General, Bushire, dated March - August 1911.
The third file ('File 18/131 I The Foreign Jurisdiction (Military Forces) Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. ) includes two copies of the relevant Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , dated April 1927, and associated correspondence of the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and Consulate General, Bushire relating to the order's forwarding to and display in various British agencies and consulates in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region, dated May-July 1927.
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- 1 volume (122 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are divided between each of the original three files that make up the volume and are arranged within each file in chronological order running from the front toward the back of the volume. The second file begins on f. 78; the third file begins on f.103.
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Foliation: the foliation system in use starts on the first page of the volume and continues to the end of the volume. The foliation appears in pencil in a sequence of circled numbers in the top right hand corner of each folio. The following foliation anomalies occur: folio 1 is followed by folios 1A and 1B; folio 77 is followed by 77A and 77B; folio 102 is followed by 102A and 102B; instead of folio 107 there appear folios 107A and 107B. A second foliation sequence of uncircled numbers starts at 1 on folio 3, then reverts again to 1 on folio 33 and continues to folio 76. Additional uncircled pagination starts at 1 on folio 83 and continues to folio 99.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1bv, 2r:77v, 77ar:77bv, 78r:102v, 102ar:102cv, 103r:106v, 107ar:107bv, 108r:113v, back-i
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