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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST DECEMBER, 1895.
2. As regards Steam Ships :-that Merchant Ships belonging to the United States of America, which are propelled by steam or any other power requiring engine room, the measurement whereof shall, after the said 5th day of August, 1882, have been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other national papers of such steamships, testified by the dates thereof, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in such registers or other national papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purpose in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of British ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships. Provided nevertheless that if the owner or master of any such American steamship desires the deduction for engine room in his ship to be estimated under the rules for engine room measurement and deduction applicable to British ships instead of under the American Rule, the engine room shall be measured, and the deduction calculated according to the British rules.
And whereas by Section 84 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, it is enacted that, whenever it appears to Her Majesty the Queen in Council, that the tonnage regulations of that Act have been adopted by any Foreign Country, and are in force there, Her Majesty in Council may order that the ships of that Country shall, without being remeasured in Her Majesty's dominions, be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their Certificates of registry or other national papers, in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship.
And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty in Council that the tonnage regulations of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, have been adopted by the United States of America and such regulations are now in force there, having come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1895.
And whereas there still are or may be ships belonging to the United States of America to which the hereinbefore recited Orders of the 30th July, 1868, and the 19th March, 1883, may respectively apply, and it is expedient not to revoke the same, but to let the said recited Orders remain in force so long as there are any ships to which the same may so respectively apply.
And whereas the provisions of Section One of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, have been complied with.
NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, in pursuance and exercise of the powers hereinbefore mentioned, is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council to direct that the Merchant ships of the United States of America the measurement whereof shall, after the 1st day of April, 1895, have been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other national papers of such ships, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of Registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship.
C. L. PEEL.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 532.
His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the QUEEN, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council:---
Ordinance No. 26 of 1895.--An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to further amend "The Stamp Ordinance, 1886."
Ordinance No. 27 of 1895.-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to apply a sum not exceeding Two Millions Four hundred and Seventy-nine thousand and Sixty-two Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1896.
Ordinance No. 28 of 1895.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend “The Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Ordinances of 1890 and 1891 (No. 30 of 1890 and No. 18 of 1891)."
Ordinance No. 29 of 1895.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to authorize in certain cases judicial investigations into the causes of fire.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th December, 1895.