(1) Civil cases where—bot plaintiff and defendant. are Chinese are now tried by a Chinese Judge: sitting alone; concerned to sit jointly wit the Judge; so also are civil ich the Shangh:
Council is the all cases damaged or destroyed, an employee of the Municipal Council is accused in his capacity; Criminal cases which direetly affect the peace and order Of the Settlement, includinye contraventions of the Regulations and the By Inws, and all criminal eases in which the accused is in the employ of u foreigner having extraterritorial rights, fare tried by 4 Chinese Judge with whom sits a Senior Consul's "Deputy". In these eases the concurrence of the Deputy is not necessary for tthe validity of the judgment, but he has the right "protest" or record his oh Jection:
Inquests and autopsies in the Settlement are held Chinese Judge and a "Deputy"
appointed "by the Consul to sit jointly the Judge.
The point to be emphasized here fs that, though the powers "and duties of the "Deputy" are to certain extent defined, those of the Consular Official are not, and the simply the Assessor under A new name, An Assessor therefore (I) and (IV) above, a yepaty" in (HIT), and a Chines: Judge sits alone in (I). Why the Saeeid tt tobreme omenit instead of "Consular Oficial" is ible and would appear to be an error due to hasty draft of the text, but the meaning rade clear by the word "jointly
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.