DROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 45.
No. 109.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1st NOVEMBER, 1862.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. VIII.
His Grace The DUKE OF NEWCASTLE having communicated to this Government the subjoined Order of Her Majesty in Council, framed under the Foreign Enlistment Act, granting permission to Mr. H. N. Lay and Captain S. Osborn, R. N., to enter the Naval and Military Service of the Emperor of China, and further authorizing them to fit out and equip vessels, and to engage Officers and Men for the said Service, and also authorizing British Subjects under certain conditions, to enter the Emperor's Naval and Military Services; the Acting Governor directs that the said Order be published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1862.
AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR.
the 30th day of August, 1862.
PRESENT
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
Whereas, by an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act to prevent the Enlisting or Engagement of His Majesty's Subjects to serve in Foreign Service, and the fitting out or equipping in His Majesty's Dominions Vessels for Warlike Purposes, without His Majesty's License," it was enacted and declared, that if any natural-born subject of His Majesty, His heirs and successors, without the leave or license of His Majesty, His heirs or successors, for that purpose first had and obtained, under the Sign Manual of His Majesty, His heirs or successors or signified by Order in Council, or by Proclamation of His Majesty, His heirs or successors, should take or accept, or should agree to take or accept, any Military Commission, or should otherwise enter into the military service as a commissioned or non- commissioned officer, or should enlist or enter himself to enlist, or should agree to enlist or to enter himself to serve us a sol- dier, or to be employed, or should serve in any warlike or military operation, in the service of or for or under or in aid of any foreign Prince, State; Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, either as an officer or soldier, or in any other military capacity; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave or license as aforesaid, accept, or agree to take or accept, any Commission, Warrant, or Appointment as an officer, or should enlist or enter himself, or should agree to enlist or enter himself, to serve as a sailor or marine, or to be em- ployed or engaged, or should serve in and on board any ship or vessel of war, or in and on board any ship or vessel used or fitted out, or equipped or intended to be used, for any warlike purpose, in the service of or for or under or in aid of any Foreign Power, Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Freign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People; or if any natural-born subject of His Majesty should, without such leave and license as aforesaid, engage, contract, or agree to go, or should go to any Foreign State, Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or to any place beyond the seas, with an intent or in order to enlist or enter himself to serve, or with intent to serve in any warlike or military operation whatever, whether by land or by set in the service of or for or under or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People, or in the service of or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or people, either as an officer or a soldier, or in any other military capacity, or as an officer or sailor, or marine, in any such ship or vessel as aforesaid, although no enlisting money, or pay, or reward should have been or should be, in any or either of the cases aforesaid, actually paid to or received by him, or by any person to or for his use or benefit; or if any person whatever, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any part of His Majesty's Dominions elsewhere, or in any Country, Colony, Settlement, Island, or Place belonging to or subject to His Majesty, should hire, retain, engage, or procure, or should attempt or end avour to hire, retain, engage, or procure, any person or persons whatever to enlist, or to enter or engage to enlist, or to serve or to be employed in any such service or employment as aforesaid, as an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, either in land or sea service, for or under or in aid of any Foreign Prince, State, Potentate, Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or People, or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of Govern- ment as aforesaid, or to go, or to agree to go, or embark from any part of His Majesty's Dominions, for the purpose, or with