rade step as compared
with the present arrangement of the Consular service.

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7.

Extracts from the draft of laws of the same wording made by the Swedish
Government in December 1904.

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Sec. 8.

If in a matter being dealt with by the Consular administration, the
Minister for Foreign affairs has informed that he has taken such a
measure as is alluded to in Sec. 9, it is for the Consular administration
to observe that, from its side, no such instructions are given to the
consul concerned as are conflicting with any reorder relating to this
matter given by the Minister for Foreign affairs and known to the Consular
administration.

Sec. 9.

The Minister for Foreign affairs has, in a matter belonging to his
province, to request immediate information from the Consul of the country
concerned and also give him instructions about what he has to observe in
such a matter; and a consul is absolutely bound to fullfill what is thus
requested of him.

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Sec. 11.

If the Minister for Foreign Affairs should learn that a Consular employe
has not acted with good and worthy behaviour towards the authorities of
the country where he is employed, or that he has participated in
political demonstrations, or secretely, or openly encouraged or supported
attacks on the existing Government, or else behaves in a way that may
have a disturbing effect upon the good relations between the United
Kingdoms and the Foreign Power concerned, then the minister has humbly to
give notice of it to the King in Joint or in Ministerial Cabinet Council
whereupon the matter is submitted to the King's consideration in the
Cabinet Council of the country concerned.

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Sec. 16.

If a legation should find a Consul guilty of a proceeding or a neglect
alluded to in Sec. 11, or if a Consul should be prosecuted for a crime
affecting his civil repute, the legation, if finding it justified by
circumstances, has to suspend the Consul from his office; and the matter
should immedately be reported both to the Minister for Foreign affairs
and to the Consular administration concerned.

A Consul thus suspended from his office, must not again come into office
until the King, after hearing the Minister for Foreign affairs, has
resolved upon it.

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8.

Extracts from notes made, in consequence of the Swedish Government's
draft of laws of the same wording by the Norwegian Cabinet Council, on
Janua