THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 12, 1909.
by the Board of Trade containing a corrected list of the exempted mail ships of that owner, or declaring that the ships of that owner have ceased to be exempted mail ships, or by proof that the number and tonnage of the ships for the time being engaged in the postal service in respect of which the security was given excreds the number and tonnage of the ships to which the security applies.
Procedure in case of actions against Exempted Mail Ships,
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20. An action may be commenced in the High Court against the owners of Writ of sum- an exempted mail ship in the like cases, in the same manner, and subject to the actions in same rules as in an Admiralty action in rear.
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21. Every order of the Court directing any security consisting of cash or Notice of Government securities to be applied shall be forthwith notified by the Admiralty Paymaster- Registrar to the Paymaster-General.
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application
22. In making orders for the application of the security, the Court may, so Priority of far as circumstances permit, give the like directions as to priorities as the Court orders. could give in the case of proceeds of property under the control of the Court.
Publication of Notices by Board of Trade.
of notices
Trade.
23. Where any notice respecting any exempted mail ship or any security is Mode of by these Rules required to be published, the Board of Trade shall forthwith action publish the same in the London Gazette, and also, if the case so requires, in the by Board of Edinburgh or Dublin Gazette, and where the exemption or security affects any British possession the Board of Trade shall also forthwith send a copy of such notice to a Secretary of State for publication in that possession, and every notice so published shall be deemed to be notice to all arresting authorities in each part of the United Kingdom, and in such British possession respectively.
24. The Forms in the Schedule, with such variations as circumstances may Forms, require, shall be used in proceedings under the Acts.
The 3rd day of June, 1908.
LOREBURN, C.
ALVERSTONE, CJ,
H. H. COZENS-HARDY, M.R.
ROLAND L. VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, LJ.
J. GORELL BARNES, P.
R. J. PARKER, J.
CHRISTOPHER JAMES.
SCHEDULE.
No. 1.
Form of Application to fix Security,
In the High Court of Justice,
Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division,
In the matter of the Mail Ships Acts, 1891 and 1902, and in the matter of the
Order in Council, 190
I, A.B., being the owner [or, on behalf of C.D. and others, or of the Company, the owners] of certain ships do hereby apply to this honourable court to fix the security to be given by me under the provisions of the said Acts, as follows :---
1. I am [or the said C.D. and others, or, &c., are] subsidised for the execution of a postal service within the meaning of the Convention mentioned in the said Order in Council, being a Convention to which the said Acts apply, that is to say, for the carrying of mails between &c. [or, as the case may be, stating shortly the nature of the postal service and the names of the ports or places, &c.}.
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2. The subsidy in respect of the said service is received from the Government of the United
Kingdom [or the foreign state to which the Convention upplies],