MON
OROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 8TH JULY, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
No. 28.
No. 126.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
With reference to Government Notification No. 49 of 2nd March last, it is hereby made known that The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies has been pleased to confirm the Suspension of Mr. J. R. G. HEARN from the Office of Fourth Master at the Central School.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th July, 1876.
No. 127.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN Colonial Secretary.
His Excellency the Governor is pleased to appoint Mr. JAMES DYER BALL, provisionally and until further notice, to be Acting Fourth Master at the Central School vice J. R. G. Hearn.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th July, 1876.
No. 128.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
The following Instructions from the Board of Trade, with a copy of the Order of the Queen in Council accompanying them, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th July, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary,
INSTRUCTIONS TO MEASURING SURVEYORS.
International Tonnage.
The Board of Trade forward herewith, for the information and guidance of Officers concerned in the duties of measurement and registry of ships, a copy of a recently issued Order in Council, which extends to vessels of Sweden the advantages field out by the 60th Section of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1862."
T. H. FARRER,
THOMAS GRAY,
Assistant Secretary,
Secretary.
At the Court at Windsor, the 17th day of March, 1875.
PRESENT:
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
HEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862,” it is enacted, that whenever
to appear to the rules concerning of
merchant ships for the time being in force under the principal Act have been adopted by the Govern- ment 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 tommage