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340 THE CHINA AND COREA (AMENDMENT) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1909
(•2) Where any printed or written newspaper or other publication containing
seditious matter is printed, published, or offered for sale within the limits of the-
Principal Order by a Company registered in the United Kingdom or in a British
possession, the Court may, after notice to the Company, and on proof of the facts,
require the Company to give security to abstain Irom such printing, publishing, or
offering for sale in future. If the Company fail to give security, or if the Company
is shown to have again printed, published, or offered for sale such newspaper or
other publication containing seditious matter after giving such security, the Court
may make an order prohibiting the Company from carrying on business within the-
limits of the Order, or may make such other orders as to the Court may seem just..
The Court may also declare all the property of the Company within the limits of the
Order to be forfeited to His Majesty the King, and shall dispose of it, subject to any
general or special directions of the Secretary of State, as it thinks fit.
(3.) Matter calculated to excite tumult or disorder, or to excite enmity between
His Majesty’s subjects and the Oovernment of China, or the Government of Corea,
or the authorities or subjects of any Power in amity with His Majesty, being within
the limits of this Order, or between the Government of China and its subjects or the
Government of Corea and its subjects, shall be deemed to be seditious matter within
the meaning of this Article.
(4.) An offence against this Article shall not be tried except on a charge and by
the Supreme Court.
(5.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Principal Order, the charge
may, for reasons to be recorded on the minutes, be heard and determined before a
Judge sitting without a jury or assessors.
3. —(1.) The power of His Majesty’s Minister in China to make King’s Regula¬
tions under Article 155 of the Principal Order, or to join with the Ministers of any
foreign Powers in amity with His Majesty in making or adopting municipal Regula¬
tions under Article 15b of the Principal Order, shall extend to making, or joining in
making or adopting, Regulations for the creation, maintenance, discipline, and control-
of a police force for any foreign Concession or Settlement in China.
(2.) Such Regulations may provide for the dismissal, fine (not exceeding one
month’s pay), continement to barracks, reduction in rank, class, or seniority, suspen¬
sion or removal from special duty, of any memberNof the force by the person for the
time being in command thereof.
(3.) The Minister may also issue to such person a warrant empowering him
while in command of the force to inflict summary punishment upon members of the-
force by imprisonment with hard labour for a period not exceeding fifteen days.
Such warrant may be at any time withdrawn.
(4.) Any fine inflicted under this Article shall be paid, after deduction of the
costs incurred in the imposition or recovery thereof, to tne authority by whom the-
police force is paid.
4. Article 5 of “The China and Corea (Amendment) Order in Council, 1907,”'
is hereby repealed, hut this repeal shall not (a) affect the past operation of such.
Article, or any right, title, obligation, or liability thereunder, or (b) interfere with
the institution or prosecution of any legal proceeding thereunder.
And the Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, Baronet, one of His Majesty’^-
Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein.
Almeeic Fitzeoy.