Sub-Prefect's decision, application for a now trial can be made to the Tantai or to the proper Consul.
7.—Foreign criminals having Consuls shall be dealt with by them as the Treaties provide. Unrepresented foreign criminals will be tried and sentenced by the Magistrate, the finding being submitted for the Taotai's approval, who will discuss the matter with some Treaty power Consul. Where the offenders are Chinese, the Sub-Prefect vill inflict the proper legal punishment.
$.—The necessary staff of translators, linguists, writers and servants, will be engaged by the Sub-Prefect as also a foreigner or two for general purposes, by whom also foreign criminals having no Consul will be Drongit to trial or kept in custody when necessary. All expenses are to be drawn from the Taotai monthly. Acts of extortion or annoyance on the part of any of the employes aboli be severely punished.
9.—Sub-Prefect shall keep a di certified record of arrests made and cases tried, ig the names of the parties arrested and recording the grounds of decision in each case. This shall be open to the inspection of the Superior Authorities. Should the Sub-Prefect Lo inefficient or notorious he will be denounced and removed from fice, another Veing appointed in his place.
10-—When the Magistrate has tried a case, should it be ascertained that plaintiff's charge was' false or plaintiff, whether native or foreigner on conviction be mulcted by the Magistrate in accordance with Rules which will be jointly drawn up by the Sub-Prefect and Consuls, and submitted for the Taotai's approval, and in the interests of justice native and fo io mia in this respect be treated with perlity.
NOTICE, Suaxowar, Ist May, 1869. TpuE undersigned, Senior member of the Consular notice that a meeting of tie renters of laud will be held Brdy, at the request of the Foreign Consuls, gives at the British Consulate on the 27th inst., to devise means of raising the requisite funds for the purposes mentioned in the 10th Section of the Land Regulations of 1854, and to decide upon any matters of a Municipal nature not enumerated therein and affecting the general interest, The order of business will Le—Ist.—To pass the reports and accounts for the last year.
2nd.—'o approve the Budget for the current year. 3rl.—The discussion of other matters.
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