extend to two months, or with fine which may extend to 1,000 rupees (459-77 dollars), or with both. 36. (1.) If a British subject wilfully gives false evidence in a proceeding before a Persian or foreign Court, or in an arbitration between a British subject on the one hand, and a Persian subject or foreigner on the other hand, he shall, on conviction before a competent Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, be liable to be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two months, or with fine which may extend to 1,000 rupees (459-77 dollars), or with both. (2.) Nothing in this Article shall exempt a person from liability under any other British or British Indian Law to any other or higher punishment or penalty: Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence. 37. (1.) Every agreement for reference to arbitration between a British subject on the one hand, and a Persian subject or a foreigner on the other hand, may, on the application of any party, be filed for execution in the proper office of a Court established under this Order. (2.) The Court shall thereupon have authority to enforce the agreement, and the award made thereunder, and to control and regulate the proceedings before and after the award, in such manner and on such terms as the Court may think fit: (3.) Provided that the Persian subject or foreigner, if so required by the Court, first obtains and files, in the proper office of the Court, the consent, in writing, of the competent authority (if any) on behalf of his own nation to his submitting, and that he does submit by writing to the jurisdiction of the Court, and, if required by the Court, gives security to the satisfaction of the Court, and to such reasonable amount as the Court thinks fit, by deposit or otherwise, to pay fees, costs, damages, and expenses, and abide by and perform the award. PART VIII.-Registration of British Subjects. 38. (1.) Every resident British subject, being of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, or being married or a widower or widow, though under that age, shall, unless already registered, register himself or herself at an office appointed by the ConsulGeneral in that behalf for the local area within which the British subject is resident. (2.) Every such British subject, not resident, arriving at a place within the Persian coast and islands where there is an office as aforesaid, unless borne on the muster-roll of a British or foreign vessel there arriving, shall, within one month after arrival, register himself or herself at the office. But this prcvision shall not be deemed to require any person to register himself or herself oftener than once in a year reckoned from the first day of January. (3.) The registration of a man shall, nevertheless, comprise the registration of his wife, if living with him; and (4.) The registration of the head, male or female, of a family, shall be deemed to comprise the registration of all females being his or her relatives, in whatever degree, living under the same roof with him or her at the time of his or her registration. (5.) The officer in charge of the office shall give to each person registered by him a certificate of registration signed by him and sealed with his seal. (6.) The name of a wife, if her registration is comprised in her husband's, shall, unless in any case the Consul-General sees good reason to the contrary, be indorsed on the husband's certificate. (7.) The names and descriptions of females, whose registration is comprised in that of the head of the family, shall, unless in any case the Consul-General sees good reason to the contrary, be indorsed on the certificate of the head of the family. (8.) Every person shall, on every registration of himself, pay a fee of 2 rupees 8 annas (1.15 dollar), or such other amount as the Secretary of State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, the Governor-General of India in Council, from time to time appoints. (9.) The amount of the fee either may be uniform for all persons, or may vary according to the position and circumstances of different classes, as the Secretary of State or the GovernorGeneral of India in Council, as the case may be, from time to time thinks fit, but shall not in any case exceed 2 rupees 8 annas (1.15 dollar). (10.) Every person by this Order required to register himself at an office shall, unless excused by the officer in charge of the office, or unless such person is a woman who, by the custom of the class to which she belongs, is prevented from appearing in public, attend personally for that purpose at the office on each occasion for registration. (11.) If any person fails to comply with the provisions of this Order respecting registration, and does not satisfactorily excuse his failure, the Courts established and officers appointed under this Order may, in any case in which they think fit, decline to recognize him as a British subject. PART IX.-- Procedure. 39-42. 43-60. PART X.-Supplemental Provisions. C. L. PEEL. PART V. AGREEMENTS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA RESPECTING PERSIA, 1834-1888. Page September, 1834 209 1. Understanding respecting the maintenance of the Integrity 2. Agreement respecting Succession to the Persian Throne. 3. Agreement respecting a Map of the Turco-Persian Boundary. 215 March, 1865. 218 4. Protocol fixing the Boundary between Turkey and Persia in 219 |