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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 18, 1913.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 114.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
4th March, 1913.
SIR,- With reference to my Circular despatch of the 8th of March, 1911, I have the honour to transmit, for your information, a copy of a despatch in which His Majesty's Minister at Brussels reports that he has duly deposite 1 is Majesty the King's ratification of the International Maritime Conventions which were signe at Brussels on the 23rd of September, 1910.
2. I also enclose a copy of the declaration referred to in the second paragraph of Sir F. Villiers's despatch, from which you will observe that Hongkong is included in the list of places in respect of which the accession of His Majesty's Government to the Convention was notified.
The Officer Administering the Government of
I have, etc.,
L. HARCOURT.
HONGKONG.
No. 2.-Treaty.
Enclosure 1 in Circular Despatch of 4th March 1913.
BRUSSELS,
21st January, 1913.
SI,-With reference to your despatch No. 32 Treaty of December 6th, I have the honour to report that I deposited yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the King's ratification of the International Maritime Conventions which were signed at Brussels on the 23rd of September, 1910,
In depositing the ratification I handed in a declaration, in the terms of the draft enclosed in your despatch, notifying the accession of His Majesty's Government to these Conventions on behalf of the various British Colonies and Protectorates therein named.
I have, &c.,
F. II, VILLIERS.
The Right Honourable
Sir EDWARD GREY, Bart., K.C.,
&C.,
&c.
&c.
Enclosure 2 in Circular Despatch of 4th March, 1913.
In depositing His Britannic Majesty's Ratification of the International Maritime Con- ventions signed at Brussels on September 23rd, 1910, His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Brussels declares, in pursuance of the provisions of the "Protocole de Signature" signed