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On the 27th April, 1847, an Order in Council was also published, reciting the Act of 6 and 7 Vict. cap. 94 and the Order in Council of 19th June, 1844, treating of the Consular courts, expulsion from Turkey of persons convicted for the first time, for the security of good behaviour, and for British subjects to keep the peace.

We must now briefly refer to the Levant Company, being a company of merchants, to whom King James the First granted a patent, conferring certain lands and privileges upon them. It having been found expedient to annul this patent, the Act of Parliament 6 George IV. c. 33, before referred to, was passed, transferring the land by purchase to the Crown.

We have annexed all the Treaties concluded with the Ottoman Porte, Acts of Parliament, Orders in Council, and Foreign Office Instructions.

PAPERS RELATING TO CONSULAR JURISDICTION IN THE

LEVANT.

1. An Act to Repeal certain Acts relating to the Governor and Company of Merchants trading to the Levant, 6th Geo. IV. cap. 33.

2. Circular, Foreign Office

3.

An Act to Remove Doubts as to the Exercise of Power
and Jurisdiction of Her Majesty within divers Coun-
tries and places out of Her Majesty's Dominions, and

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10th June, 1825

6th Oct., 1843

to render the same more effectual, 6 and 7 Vict., cap. 94 24th Aug., 1843 4. Order in Council respecting the Exercise of Jurisdic

tion by Her Majesty's Consuls in Turkey in Civil
Cases

5. Circulars of Foreign Office

6. Order in Council conferring on Her Majesty's Consular Officers in the Ottoman Dominions Jurisdiction in Criminal Cases .

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7. Memorandum for the Guidance of Her Majesty's Con-
sular Servants in the Levant with reference to the
Exercise of Jurisdiction under the Order in Council
Circular of Foreign Office and Form of Returns.
9. Capitulations and Articles of Peace, as agreed upon,
augmented and altered at different periods, and finally
confirmed by the Treaty of Peace, concluded at the
Dardanelles in 1809.

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10. Order in Council, making further Provision for the Exercise of Power and Jurisdiction by British Consular Courts in the Ottoman Dominions

2nd Oct., 1843

2nd July, 1844

19th June, 1844

2nd July, 1844

3rd July, 1844

1675-1809

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24th April, 1847

6 GEO. IV., CAP. 33.

AN Act to repeal certain Acts relating to the Governor and Company of Merchants of England trading to the Levant Seas, and the duties payable to them and to authorise the transfer and disposal of the possessions and property of the said Governor and Company for the public service.

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WHEREAS His late Majesty King James the First, by his Letters Paletters patent, bearing date the fourteenth day of December, Dec., 3 Jac. in the third year of his reign, did grant to several persons rating the 1, incorpotherein named, and to their sons, and such others as should Levant prohereafter be admitted and made free, and they should be one cited. fellowship, and one body corporate and politic, by the name of "The Governor and Company of Merchants of England trading to the Levant Seas;" and by the same name should have perpetual succession, with certain rights and privileges in the said letters patent specified: And whereas His late Confirmed by Patent, Majesty King Charles the Second, by his letters patent bear2nd April, ing date the second day of April, in the thirteenth year of his 13 Car. 2. reign, did ratify and confirm the said letters patent of King James the First, and did grant further authorities and privileges to the said Governor and Company: And whereas by divers Acts certain regulations have been made respecting the said Company, and the Dues and Duties payable to the said Company, that is to say, an Act made in the twentysixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, "An Act for enlarging and regulating the 26 Geo. 2, c. Trade into the Levant Seas;" an Act made in the twentieth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, among other things, for the allowing the Importation into and Exportation from Ireland of such goods as may be imported into or exported from Great Britain by the merchants of England trading to the Levant Seas; an Act made in the 43 Geo. 3, forty-third year of His said late Majesty King George the Third, to permit the Importation into Great Britain and Ireland of certain goods, wares, and merchandise, in neutral vessels; an Act made in the fifty-fifth year of the 55 Geo. 3, reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An Act to regulate the trade between Malta and its Dependencies and His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and also between Malta and the United Kingdom;" an Act made in the fifty-seventh year of the reign of His said

18; 20 Geo. 3,

c. 18.

c. 153.

c. 29.

57 Geo. 3, c. 4.

c. 110.

As soon as the Com

pany shall by deed

Common

Seal, enrol

late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An Act to extend the privileges of the trade of Malta to the port of Gibraltar; and an Act made in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His said late Majesty King George the Third, in59 Geo. 3, tituled, “An Act to remove doubts respecting the dues payable to the Levant Company:" And whereas it would be beneficial to the trade of the United Kingdom, and especially to the trade carried on in the Levant Seas, that the exclusive rights and privileges of the said Governor and Company under the said Letters Patent and Acts of Parliament should cease and determine: And whereas the said Governor and Company are willing and desirous to surrender up the said letters patent into His Majesty's hands: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That whenever and so soon as any deed or instrument by which the said Governor and under their Company shall so render up to His Majesty the said letters patent, and all rights, powers, and privileges thereby granted led in Chan- or confirmed to the said Governor and Company, shall be made and executed under the Common Seal of the said Letters Pa- Governor and Company, and shall be enrolled in His Marights there-jesty's High Court of Chancery, the said several letters patent and grants hereinbefore recited, and every matter, void, and the clause, and thing therein contained, shall be and become, and Corporation the same are hereby declared to be and become null and shall cease; void; and that from and immediately after the enrolment of such deed or instrument, the said Governor and Company shall cease to be a body politic and corporate, and the said corporation shall be dissolved to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever; and all rights, powers, and privileges by the said letters patent, or by the said several hereinbefore recited Acts, or by any other authority or means granted to or possessed by the said Governor and Company, shall from henceforth cease and determine; anything in the said several letters patent and Acts, or any of them, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and the Houses, etc., said Governor and Company shall be and they are hereby vested in the divested of and from all land, houses, and buildings, by King. whatever tenure holden, at any time heretofore purchased, acquired or holden by the said Governor and Company, and

cery, surrender the

tent and the

by granted, the same shall become

and their

shall be

which are holden, possessed, or claimed by the said Governor and Company, within the United Kingdom, or at Smyrna or elsewhere, and all such land, houses, buildings, and all right, title, estate, or interest therein or thereto, holden, purchased, acquired, possessed, enjoyed, or claimed by the said. Governor and Company, shall thenceforth be and the same and every of them are and is hereby declared and enacted to be fully and absolutely vested in His Majesty, His heirs and successors, for ever.

effects of the

Treasury, for

the Company's Debts, and the surplus to be

Consolidated

II. And whereas certain grants of money have been from Funds and time to time made to the said Governor and company of Corporation merchants of England trading to the Levant Seas, by sundry vested in the Acts, for the purpose of better enabling them to carry into payment of effect the objects for which they were incorporated: and whereas it is just and expedient that all such property as t shall belong to or be at the disposal of the said Governor carried to the and Company under or by virtue of the said Letters Patent Fund. and Acts, or any of them respectively, at the time of such their dissolution, should, after the payment of all debts and demands to which the said Governor and Company may be liable as such Corporation, be applied to the public service, in the manner herein-after directed; be it therefore enacted, That from and immediately after the enrolment of any such deed or instrument as aforesaid, whereby the said Corporation shall be dissolved in manner directed by this Act, all moneys in the public funds, and all other moneys, goods, chattels, property, and other personal estate and effects whatsoever, in the possession or at the disposal of the said Governor and Company as such Corporation as aforesaid, or to which the said Governor and Company as such Corporation are or shall be entitled, or which shall or may be due to the said Governor and Company as such Corporation, shall be and become vested, and are hereby vested in the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury now and for the time being, or any three of the said Commissioners, to accept, receive, and recover, and to sell, transfer, and dispose of all such funds, moneys, goods, chattels, property, and other personal estate and effects whatsoever, and to apply the produce thereof, in the first place, in and for the payment of all just debts and demands to which the said Governor and Company are or shall be liable at the

26 Geo. 2. c. 18, and 59

Geo. 3, c.

and the

Duties payable to the Company

shall cease,

except as to

dissolution of such Corporation, on account of any matter or thing relating to such Corporation; and from and after payment of all such debts and demands, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them, and they are hereby authorised and required to direct, that all the remainder and surplus of the produce of such public funds, moneys, goods, chattels, property, and other personal estate as aforesaid shall be paid into the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and shall be placed to the account of and made part of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

III. And be it further enacted, That from and immediately after the enrolment in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery 110, repealed of such deed or instrument as aforesaid, the said recited Act of the twenty-sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George II.; and also the said recited Act of the fiftyninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George III., Arrears re- and all powers for the levying of any duties or dues heretomaining due. fore payable to the said Governor and Company, shall be and the same are hereby repealed; and all such duties and dues, and all powers for levying the same, shall cease and determine, except only so far as relates to the payment and recovery of any arrears of duties and dues, which shall be payable to the said Company at the time of the enrolment of All Clauses such deed or instrument; and also that from and after such enrolment of such deed or instrument, all and every clause, relating to matter, and thing contained in the said several hereinbefore recited Acts made in the twentieth, forty-third, fifty-fifth, and fifty-seventh years of the reign of His said late Majesty King George III., in any way extending or relating to the said Governor and Company, shall be and the same are from thenceforth hereby repealed; anything in the said recited Acts or any of them, or any other law, usage, or custom to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

in the before recited Acts

the said

Company repealed.

Treasury may grant Allowances and Pensions to Officers of

IV. Repealed by 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 94.

V. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, and they are hereby empowered the Company and authorised to grant reasonable allowances and pensions etc., losing their Offices to such of the Officers and Servants in England of the said Company, and to such other person or persons as, by reason of the dissolution of the said Company, may lose and be

under this

Act.

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