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It may be mentioned that the Law Officers of the Crown recommended in
86 (Political), India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. to Government of India, 187 S that the WOrd ‘‘Coast should b©
dated 19 th September 1878. defined, but this appears to have been
considered unnecessary.
6 . Lingah .—The limits of the jurisdiction of the Consular Court of this
Foreign Noa6e.«on No. nii-uia- Vice-Consulate are, Lingah, the Shibkuh
g., dated let July 1910 . Ports, and the Islands of Parur, Kais,
Hindarabi and Shaikh Shuaib.
7 . Bandar Abbas .—The limits of the jurisdiction of this Vice-Consular
Foreign Department Notification No. uio-G., Court are “ Bandar Abbas,” up to the
dated ist July 1910 . Kbamir boundary on the west, the dis
tricts of Shamilat and Minab on the east, and the Islands of Hormuz, Larak,
Qishm, and Henjam, in the eastern part of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
8 . Jashk and Charbar .—The limits of the jurisdiction of the Director of
Government of India, Foreign Department Noth Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Telegraphs are within the
fication N0.1987-E.A., dated Simla, the 3rd June local limits of the Telegraph Stations of
19 GoVernment of India, Foreign Department, Jashk and Charbar, and along the align-
No. 171 -External, dated isth August 1893 , Noti- ment of telegraph between these two
fiction No. 16 S 1 .E, d.ted sth Angct 1893 . p i aceS) be^g within the limits of the said
Coast and Islands.”
9. It will be seen from the foregoing summary that under existing pro
visions whilst the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and his Pirst Assistant
have judicial powers over the whole of the Persian Coast, from the mouth of
the Shatt-al-Arab to Gwettar Bay, the limits of the judicial powers of the Assist
ant Residents at Lingah and Bandar Abbas only extend, along the coast, to
the eastern boundary of the Minab district (which touches the sea between
Ziarat and Bandaram). The tract between the latter boundary and Jashk Tele
graph Station, comprising the district of Biyaban and a small strip of the Jashk
district, forms a hiatus, in which no judicial officer subordinate to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
exercises jurisdiction.
Prom Jashk to Charbar the Director of Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Telegraphs does exer
cise judicial powers, but only within the local limits of the Telegraph Stations
at those ports and along the alignment of the telegraph line connecting them.
10 . No Provincial Courts have been established for the Consulates at
Karman and Shiraz, and consequently were the incumbents of these posts to
take judicial action under either Order-in-Council their powers might be called
into question.
The fact is, as an examination of the definitions figuring at the commence
ment of the two Orders will demonstrate, that no precise boundary between
them has been laid down ; and under present conditions, while His Majesty’s
Consuls at Shiraz and Karman exercise no specific judicial powers within their
spheres, it would at the same time seem to be an undue strain on the interpre
tation of the Coast and Islands Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. , as at present worded, to claim
for the Consul General at Bushire jurisdiction under that Order, either in the
hinterland of the maritime provinces of Pars, Laristan and Lingah (which are
covered by his Commission); or in Karman and Dependencies (including
Persian Baluchistan and Mekran) which have always been in his sphere as
Resident but are not provided for in his Consular Commission. It may be
mentioned here in passing that the convenience of the inclusion in the latter
instrument, of Karman and Dependencies, as well as of Arabistan, was suggested
by Colonel Ross in Appendix I of his letter No. 13, dated 14th January 1879 to
the Government of India when discussing the draft Order.
11. Thus, having regard to the fact that only offences committed within
the limits of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. under which a particular Court has been
constituted, can be tried in that Court, and that in consequence parts of Persia
beyond the limits of one Order are treated for judicial purposes as foreign terri
tory by Courts established under that Order, the position is plainly one that