THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 11, 1915.
canoes not transported by or used in connection with other vessels, and propelled entirely oars, paddles, or sails, and manned by not more than five persons each, in the way therto practised, and without the use of firearms, provided that such Indians, Ainos, leuts, or other aborigines are not in the employment of other persons, or under contract to diver the skins to any person.
5. For the purposes of this Order, the expression" British authority" means any fficer of Customs in His Majesty's dominions, and any British consular officer having uthority as such in any port or place.
"The waters to which the Order applies" means such part of the Pacific Ocean beyond: helimits of territorial waters as is north of the thirtieth parallel of north latitude, including he Seas of Behring, Kamchatka, Okhotsk, and Japan.
6. The Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Order in Council 1895 is hereby repealed, without prejudice to anything done or suffered under that Order.
7. This Order may be cited as "The Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Order in Council, 1913.
And the Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, Baronet, K.G., and the Right Honourable Lewis Harcourt, M.P., two of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
ALMERIC FITZROY.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE 11TH DAY OF APRIL 1913.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
LORD PRESIDENT
VISCOUNT ALLENDALE
LORD CHAMBERLAIN MR. J. A. PEASE.
WHEREAS by Section 3 of the Seal Fisheries (North United of
were prohibited from using any port within the United Kingdom for purposes of pelagic sealing contrary to any Order in Council made under the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Acts, 1895 and 1912:
And whereas by Section 4 of the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912, the im- portation of the skins of seals captured in contravention of any such Order as last aforesaid was prohibited:
And whereas by Section 5 (1) of the said Act it was enacted that His Majesty might by Order in Council extend the provisions of the two hereinbefore recited sections to any part of His Majesty's Dominions outside the United Kingdom, to any British Protectorate, and to Cyprus, subject to such modifications and adaptations as might appear to Him to be necessary:
And whereas by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, or other lawful means His Majesty the King has jurisdiction in and over Cyprus and within the Dominions of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar:
And whereas it is desirable that the provisions of the Sections 3 and 4 of the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912, should be extended to the Colonies and Protectorates enumerated in the Schedule to this Order and to Cyprus and to the dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar subject to the modifications and adaptations hereinafter contained:
NOW, THEREFORE, His. Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912, the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-