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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND APRIL, 1864.
Interpretation Clause.
said whilst such Ship of War or Privateer shall be in the Waters of this Colony aforesaid or within the distance from this Colony aforesaid shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the Court to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years.
III. In the construction, and for the purposes of this Ordinance, the term "Other Article." as used in the second Section hereof, shall apply to, and comprehend, all Articles other than and except Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder and Naval and Military Stores.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 29th Day of March, 1864.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
No. 59.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In accordance with the request of the Government of the Straits Settlement, and for the inform- ation of Master Mariners and the Community generally, publicity is given to the following Notice of an improved Harbor Light recently exhibited at the Port of Singapore.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th March, 1864.
NOTICE.
HARBOR LIGHT-SINGAPORE.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
On and after the 1st of March 1864, a new light will be exhibited from the Flag Staff, Fort Canning. The light will be fixed at an elevation of 215 feet above the sea, (II. W. mark), and it calculated will be seen from a distance of 15 miles.
It will be visible through an arc of 90° extending from St. John's Island to Johore Shoal at the Northern entrance of the Old Straits.
J. O. MAYNE,-Captain, R. E., Chief Engineer & Secy, to Govt., Public Works Department, Straits Settlement,
Singapore, 18th February, 1864.
No. 60.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Order of Her Majesty in Council, conferring on Her Majesty's Consul-General in Japan the power to issue rules for restricting the entrance or passage of British Merchant Vessels into or through the straits or waters within the Dominions of the Tycoon, is published for general information. By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th March, 1864.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 7th day of January, 1864.
PRESENT:
The QEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the session holden in the sixth and seventh years of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction of Her Majesty within divers countries and "places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more effectual," it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it is and shall be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy, any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty now hath, or at any time hereafter may have, within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a nanner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:
And whereas Her Majesty hath power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan :
And whereas Her Majesty was pleased, on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by an Order duly made, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make provision for the exercise of the said power and jurisdiction; and such Order was afterwards amended, and further provision was made for the exercise of the said power and jurisdiction, by another Order duly made by Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, on the fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one":
And whereas, under and by virtue of the said Orders, Her Majesty's Consuls within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan are authorised and empowered to make, and to enforce by fine or imprisonment, rules and regulations for the observance of the stipulations of the treaty or treaties between Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, and the Tycoon of Japan, and for the peace, order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:
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