THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD JANUARY, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 1. The following notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd January, 1885.
NOTICE.
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W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
Owners of Tenements are reminded that Municipal Rates for the First Quarter of 1885, are payable in advance, during and within the month of January.
Such Rates should be paid before the 31st January, as, after that date, immediate application will be made to the Supreme Court for the recovery
of arrears.
Treasury, Hongkong, 3rd January, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 2.
A. LISTER,
Treasurer.
The following copy of an Order of the Queen in Council, exempting from Re-measurement, in any Port or Place in Her Majesty's Dominions, Belgian Vessels, the tonnage of which is denoted in the Certificates of Belgian Nationality or Registry, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd January, 1885.
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AT THE COURT AT BALMORAL, The 17th day of October, 1884. PRESENT,
W. H. MARSHI,
Colonial Secretary.
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," it is enacted that, whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of Merchant Ships for the time being in force under the principal Act have been adopted by the Government of any Foreign Country, and are in force in that Country, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to direct that the ships of such Foreign Country shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry, or other national papers; and thereupon it shall no longer be necessary for such ships to be re-measured in any port or place in Her Majesty's Dominions, but such ships shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their Certificates of Registry, or other papers, in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purpose, in, to and for which the tonnage denoted in the Certificates of Registry of British ships is to be deemed the tonnage of such ships:
And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measure- ment of tonnage of Merchant Ships now in force under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," have been adopted by the Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, with the exception of a slight difference in the mode of estimating the allowance for engine-room, and such rules are now in force in that Country, having come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1884:
HER MAJESTY is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to direct
as follows:
1. As regards sailing ships, that merchant sailing ships belonging to Belgium, the measurement whereof on or after the said 1st day of January, 1884, shall have been ascertained and denoted in the Certificates of Registry, or other national papers of such sailing ships, testified by the dates thereof, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in such Certificates of Registry, or other national papers, in the same manner, and to the same extent, and for the same purpose, in, to and for which the tonnage denoted in the Certificates of Registry of British sailing ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships.
2. As regards steam-ships, that merchant ships belonging to Belgium which are propelled by steam or any other power requiring engine-room, the measurement whereof on or after the said 1st day of January, 1884, shall have been ascertained and denoted in the Certificates of Registry, or other national papers of such steam-ships, testified by the dates thereof, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in such Certificates of Registry, or other national papers, in the same manner, and to the same extent, and for the same purpose, in, to and for which the tonnage denoted in the Certificates of Registry of British ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ship, provided, nevertheless, that, if the owner or master of any such steam-ship desires the deduction for engine-room in such ship to be estimated under the rules for engine-room measurement and deduction applicable to British ships, instead of under the Belgian rules, the engine-room shall be measured, and the deductions calculated, accor- ding to the British Rules,
C. L. PEEL.