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2 APPENDIX B.—SIAM.
3 APPENDIX B.
4 Stam,
5 The territories of Cheingmai, Lakon and Lamponchi.—In 1883 a special Treaty (')
6 was concluded between Her Majesty and the King of Siam, having for its ae the more effectual
7 prevention of crime in the territories of Cheingmai, Lakon and Lamponchi belonging to Siam, and
8 the promotion of commercial intercourse between British Burma and the territories aforesaid. This
9 treaty abrogated the Treaty of the 14th January, 1874, between the Government of India and
10 Siam (see Aitchison’s Treaties, Vol. I, No. CLVI[), and provided (amongst other matters) for the
11 establishment of a Court at Cheingmai, to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction in all cases arising
12 in Cheingmai, Lakon and Lamponchi between British subjects, or in which British subjects might
13 be parties as complainants, accused, plaintiffs, or defendants, according to Siamese law, subject to
14 the conditions, (a) that the Brtish Consul might be present at any trial and make suggestions to
15 the Court; and (4) that he might, on application before judgment, require the transfer to the
16 British Consular Court of any case in which both parties were British subjects, or in which the
17 accused or defendant was a British subject. By Article 1X an appeal was granted from the decision
18 of this Court to Bangkok, to be disposed of there by the Siamese authorities in consultation with
19 the Consul General. The procedure of the Court established as above stated and appeals from its
20 decisions are regulated by rules issued under the authority of the King of Siam, who has also
21 issued two royal decrees (in 1886 and 1887) providing for the carrying out of the stipulations of
22 the Treaty.
23 By a Notification No. 5-J., dated the 9th January, 1875 (see Gazette of India, 1875, Part I,
24 page 39), which is still in force, the offices for the time being in charge of the Salween District
25 was appointed, under section 3 of Act XI of 1872,() to exercise all the powers of a Political Agent:
26 under thé above Act for these territories.
27 Certain Notifications, Nos. 6-J. and 15-J., dated, respectively, the 9th January and the 22nd
28 July, 1875, delegating powers to certain British officials in Burma in respect of these territories,
29 and prescribing fees to be levied in civil suite arising between parties in these territories, having
30 become obsolete owing to the abrogation of the Tieaty of 1874 above referred to, were formally
31 cancelled by Government of India Notification No. 1689KE., dated the 4th August, 1887—see
32 Gazette of India, 1387, Pt. I, p. 400.
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34 The general relations of the British Government with the State of Siam are regulated by a
35 Treaty, dated the 2&th April, 1865, and a supplementary Agreement, dated the 18th May, 1866
36 (see Aitchison’s Treaties, Vol. 1, page 863, and Nos. CLIJI & CLIV). Her Majesty’s jurisdiction
37 in this kingdom is now defined and regulated by an Order in Council, dated the 28th November,
38 1889 (sce Gazette of India, 1890, Pt. 1, p. 107), which Las superseded all previous Orders.
39 (') A supplemontary Article defining whnt are the torritorics of His Majesty the King of Siam conterminous with Bri
40 tish Burma, and providing for identical definitions of the crimes mentioned ip thé annexure to the snid ‘lreaty, was entered
41 into in 1885. The treaty, with the supplementary article just mentioned, is published under Notification Ng. 6, dated the
42 18th May 1891, in the Burma Gazette, 1891, Pt. I, p. 186.
43 (#) See now Act XXI of 1879, us. 2 and 3.