No. 421.
Mr. Bingham to Mr. Evarts.
Legation of
the United States,
Tokei,
Japan, February 7, 1881. (Received March
8.)
No. 1250.]
Sir: Referring to my No. 1226, in which I had the
honor to acquaint
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you that in
accordance with instruction No. 535 I had on the 11th of December last
ordered and decreed the amendment, as therein stated, of section 22 of title
“Criminal Proceedings” of the “Regulations for the consular courts of the
United States of America in Japan,” issued November 16, 1870, I now beg
leave to inform you that having submitted said order and decree of amendment
to the several consular officers of the United States in Japan, the same has
been returned to me by them, indorsed approved and assented to by the said
officers severally.
After the receipt of the approval by our consular officers in Japan of said
order and decree of amendment, I did on the 28th ultimo cause the same to be
published, with my signature and the signatures and opinions and the assent
thereto of my advisers indorsed thereon, in the Japan Daily and Weekly Mail,
a journal issued in Yokohama, a copy of which publication is herewith, in
duplicate, together with a copy of my order that said amendment should take
effect and be in force from and after the 2d instant, of which notice and
publication I have duly acquainted our several consular officers in this
empire.
In thus ordering and decreeing this amendment and giving thereto the force of
law until the same shall be amended or modified by act of Congress, I
conformed to your instructions and to sections 4117 and 4118 United States
Revised Statutes, 1878, page 792.
Hoping that my action as herein stated may meet your approval,
I have &c.,
[Inclosure in No. 1250.—Extract from the
Japan Daily Mail, January 28, 1881.]
United
States Legation, Japan,
Tokei, January 27,
1881.
[Cut of eagle.]
Notice is hereby given that the following amendment of section 22 of the
title “Criminal proceedings” in the “Regulations for the consular courts
of the United States of America in Japan,” published to be in force
November 16, 1870, shall take effect and be in force from and after the
2d day of February 1881, the said amendment having been heretofore, to
wit, on the 11th of December, 1880, ordered and decreed by me, and the
same having been heretofore duly assented to and approved by the several
consuls of the United States of America in Japan as certified by them
respectively.
JNO. A. BINGHAM,
Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States of America
in Japan.
amendment.
It is hereby ordered and decreed that section 22 of the title
“Criminal proceedings” in the “Regulations for the consular courts
of the United States of America in Japan,” adopted November 16,
1870, be and the same is hereby amended so that the same shall read
as follows:
The punishment of persons convicted of crimes in the courts of the
United States in this empire, except in such cases as are otherwise
provided for by law, shall be as follows: murder shall be punishable
by death; manslaughter shall be punishable, by imprisonment for a
term not exceeding ten years and a fine not exceeding $1,000; all
other felonies shall be punishable as provided by the laws of the
United States of America, and for misdemeanors at common law the
punishment shall be by fine not
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exceeding $500 or by imprisonment not
exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the
discretion of the court.
[
l. s.]
JNO. A.
BINGHAM,
Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America in
Japan.
Assented to.
THOS. B. VAN BUREN,
Consul
General.
Kanagawa, Japan,
December 14, 1880.
Assented to.
J. STAHEL,
Consul.
Hiogo, Japan,
December 17, 1880.
Assented to.
A. C. JONES,
Consul.
Nagasaki, Japan,
December 20, 1880.
Assented to.
W. C. DAVISSON,
Consular
Agent.
Hakodate, Japan,
January 15, 1881.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record
in the legation of the United States of America at Tokei,
Japan.
[
l. s.]
D. W.
STEVENS,
Secretary of
Legation.
