THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH JANUARY, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 33..
The following Circular Despatch and its enclosures are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th January, 1889.
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
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CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
3rd December, 1888.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your government, a copy of an Agreement between the Governments of Great Britain and Brazil relative to Merchant Seamen Deserters, signed at Rio de Janeiro on the 30th of July last, together with a copy of an Order of the Queen in Council, dated the 17th of November, extending the provisions of the "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," to Brazil.
I have the honour to be,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
KNUTSFORD.
Agreement between the Governments of Great Britain and Brazil relative to
Merchant Seamen Deserters.
Signed at Rio de Janeiro, July 30, 1888.
The Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Government of the Empire of Brazil, Her Highness the Princess Imperial acting as Regent in the name of His Majesty the Emperor, being desirous, for the benefit of the commerce of the two countries, to facilitate the discovery, apprehension, and surrender of seamen who may desert from merchant-vessels of either country, on the basis of a full and entire reciprocity, have agreed as follows:
It is mutually agreed that if any seamen or apprentices, not being slaves, should desert from any ship belonging to a subject of either of the Contracting Parties, within any port in the territories or in the possessions or Colonies of the other Contracting Party, the authorities of such port and territory, possession or Colony, shall be bound to give every assistance in their power for the apprehension and sending on board of such deserters, on application to that effect being made to them by the Consul of the country to which the ship of the deserter may belong, or by the deputy or representative of the Consul.
It is understood that the preceding stipulations shall not apply to subjects of the country where the desertion shall take place.
Each of the two High Contracting Parties reserves to itself the right of terminating this Agree ment at any time, on giving to the other a year's notice of its wish to that effect.
In witness whereof the Undersigned have signed the present Agreement, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done in duplicate, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, on the thirtieth day of the month of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
(L.S.)
HUGH WYNDHAM.
(L.S.)
RODRIGO A. DE SILVA.