"مراسلات ومذكرات تفاهم تتعلق بالسلطة القضائية للقنصلية في بلاد فارس، ١٨٧٣-٧٤" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٦] (٤٨/٣٠)

Reply of Sir A. Kembull.
a moins de preuves de sa participation au
crime, et dans ce cas memc coin me dans
celui ou un sujet Russe serait prevenu de
culpability directe, les tribunaux du pays ne
pourront proc^der & la connaissance et au
jugement du crime qu'cn presence d'un
d^legue de la Mission ou du Consulat de
Russie, et s'il ne s'en trouve pas sur le lieu
ou le delit a ete commis, les autorites locales
feront transporter le delinquant 1^ ou il y a
un Consul ou un Agent Russe constitue.
Les temoignages k charge et & decharge du
prevenu seront fid^lement recueillis par le
Hakim et par le juge de I'endroit, et revetu
de leur signature, transmis dans cette forme
lil ou le ddlit devra etre juge: ces temoig
nages deviendront des documents ou pieces
% authentiques du proems ^ moins que I'accuse
ne demontre ^videmment la fausset^. Lors-
que le prevenu aura 6te dement convaincu,
et que la sentence aura H6 prononc^e, le
delinquant sera remis au Ministre Charge
d'Affaires ou Consul de Sa Majeste Im-
periale, qui le renverra en Russie. pour y
recevoir le chatiment portd par les lois.
There is probably some misconception in
ascribing grounds of umbrage to Persia, in
consequence of the proposal to render the
course of appeal to Constantinople or to
Bombay instead of to England. The pro
posal means no more than that, according
as English law or British Indian law were
preferred as the law to be administered
by the British Consular Courts in Persia,
appeal would lie from those Courts to Her
Majesty's Supreme Consular Courts at Con
stantinople, or to Her Majesty's High Court
of Judicature in Bombay, that is, in either
case, from one British Court to a higher
British Court.
So far as foreign Governments are con
cerned, British Indian law or Colonial law
are quite as much English law as the law
properly so called, seeing that laws are
enacted throughout Her Majesty's domi
nions, wherever situated, under the autho
rity, and subject to the revision and veto,
of the Crown and Imperial Parliament.
The conditions of legislation in each case
are prescribed by statute, and are adapted
to the circumstances of the several depen
dencies concerned.
The reason for constituting British Indian
law the law to be administered in Persia is
set forth in paragraph 17 of the Report,
viz., that the great majority of persons
coming under its operation would be British
Indian subjects. On the other hand. Eng
lishmen affected thereby, while residing in
Persia, would be in no worse position than
their more numerous countrymen living
under the same law in India. The supe-