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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17тn JUNE, 1865.
The Amended Neutrality Bill was read a second time, committed and passed-being No. 9 of 1865, and entitled "An Ordinance to give Effect to. Her Majesty's Regulations for the Observance of Neutrality during the existing Hostilities between the United States and the States calling themselves the Confederate States of America."
The Council adjourned to Wednesday, the 14th Instant, at Noon.
Read and approved, this 14th Day of June, 1865.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
W. T. MERCER,
Acting Governor,
No. 92.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Under Instructions from the Right Honorable The SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, the following Order in Council of the 9th March, 1865, for the Government of Her Majesty's Subjects in China and Japan, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th June, 1865.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary,
[L.S.]
AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, THE 9TH DAY OF MARCH, 1865.
PRESENT:
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas an Act of Parliament was passed in the Session of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's reign (chapter eighty) "for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China":
And whereas by that Act it was enacted (among other things) that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order or Orders made with the advice of Her Privy Council, to ordain for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any ship or vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, any law or ordinance which to Her Majesty in Council might seem meet, as fully and effectually as any such law or ordinance could be made by Her Majesty in Council for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within Her Majesty's Island of Hongkong:
And whereas another Act of Parliament was passed in the same Session (chapter ninety-four) "to remove doubts as to "the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions and to render the same more effectual" (to which Act the expression The Foreign Jurisdiction Act when hereafter used in this Order refers):
And whereas by The Foreign Jurisdiction Act it was enacted (among other things) that it was and should be lawful for Her Majesty to hold exercise and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty then had or might at any time thereafter have within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:
And whereas Her Majesty has had and now has power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Emperor of China and it the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan :
And whereas Her Majesty was pleased from time to time, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, by Orders in Council of the several dates in the Schedule to this Order specified, to ordain laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, and to make provision for the exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid in the dominions of the Emperor of China and of the Tycoon of Japan respectively:
And whereas it has seemed to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to be expedient at the present time to revise the provisions of the said Orders, and to ordain further and other laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within such ships or vessels as aforesaid, and to make further and other provision for the due exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid and particularly for the more regular and efficient administration of justice among Her Majesty's subjects resident in or resorting to the dominions of the Emperor of China or of the Tycoon of Japan:
And whereas, under the authority of provisions in this behalf in the first-recited Act contained, ordinances for the peace order and good government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being with certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, have been from time to ting made by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China (such Superintendent being also the Clevernor of Hongkong), with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, which ordinances are known as Consular Ordinances :
And whereas such of those Consular Ordinances as are described in the Schedule to this Order are now in force, wholly or in part, but they are liable to repeal by Order of Her Majesty in Council, and it is expedient that they be repealed, such their provisions as are not intended to be abrogated being consolidated with this Order:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the first-recited Act and The Foreign Jurisdicti Act, or either of them, or otherwise, in Tier vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and s is hereby ordered, as follows:-