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No. 148.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26тa JUNE, 1380.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The Governor has been pleased to appoint HENRY FREDERICK GIBBONS, Esquire, to be Registrar of Companies, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1865.
By Command,
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FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th June, 1880.
No. 150.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Order of Her Majesty in Council, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 24th June, 1880.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary
At the Court at Windsor, the 18th day of March, 1880.
PRESENT.
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by the "Foreign Deserters Act," 1852, it is provided that whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen wh desert from British merchant ships in the territories of any foreign power, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council stating that such facilities are or will be given, declare that seamen, not being slaves, who desert from merchant ships belonging to a subject of such Power when within Her Majesty's dominion, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the opera. tion of such Order, and may render the operation thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications. if any, as may be deemed expedient:
And whereas it hath been made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities for recovering an apprehending seamen (not being German subjects) who desert from British merchant ships in the territories belonging to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany will be given under an Agree ment between the Governments of Great Britain and Germany signed at London on the 5th Novem ber, 1879:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in Her by the said "Foreign Deserte Act," 1852, and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, ar it is hereby ordered and declared, that from and after the publication hereof in the London Gazet seamen, not being slaves (and not being British subjects), who desert from merchant ships belongi to subjects of the Emperor of Germany within Her Majesty's dominions shall be liable to be app hended and carried on board their respective ships; provided always, that if any such deserter b committed any crime in Her Majesty's dominions he may be detained until he has been tried by › competent Court, and until his sentence (if any) has been fully carried into effect.
And Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in Her by the said "Foreign Deserters Ac 1852, and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is further pleased to order and declare th upon and after the publication hereof in the London Gazette, the Order in Council made, by virtue the said Act, on the 16th day of October, 1852, and published in the London Gazette on the 20 day of October, 1852, so far as it relates to seamen who desert from merchant ships belonging citizens of the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the Order in Counc relating to seamen who desert from the merchant ships belonging to subjects of the King of Prussis made by virtue of the said Act, on the 16th day of October, 1852, and published in the Lond