DIE
MONROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 20.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 13TH MAY, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
No. 92.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that Her Majesty's Birthday shall be kept in this Colony on Wednesday, the 24th May.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 93.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Copy of an Order of the Queen in Council, providing for the apprehension of deserters from Merchant Ships belonging to the Kingdom of Greece, under "The Foreign Deserters' Act, 1852,” is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
At the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of February 1876.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
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THEREAS 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 or apprehending Seamen who 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 Scamen not being Slaves who desert from Merchant Ships belonging to such power when within Her Majesty's Dominions shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the operation of such Order, and inay render the operation thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any, as may be deemed expedient:
And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are given for recovering and apprehending Seamen who desert from British Merchant Ships in the Territories of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes: NOW THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in Her by the said "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that from and after the publication hereof in the "London Gazette," Seamen, not being Slaves, and not being British Subjects who, within Her Majesty's Dominions, desert from Merchant Ships belonging to the Kingdom of Greece, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships: Provided always, that if such Deserter has committed any crime in Her Majesty's Dominions he may be detained until he has been tried by a competent Court and until his sentence (if any) has been fully carried into effect.
And the Secretaries of State for India in Council, the Home Department, and the Colonies are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
C. L. PEEL.
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