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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH MAY, 1861.
Consuls may exer- cise powers of Justices
and publicly exhibited in the Consular Office, apply to the Consul of the district to be enrolled in such register; and every British subject who may arrive within the said do- minions, save and except any British subject who may be borne on the muster-roll of any British ship or vessel arriving in a port of Japan, shall, within a reasonable time after his arrival, to be specified as aforesaid, apply to the Consul of the district to be enrolled in such register; and any British subject who shall refuse or neglect to make application so to be enrolled, and who shall not be able to excuse, to the satisfaction of the said Consul, such is retsal or neglect, shall not be entitled to be recognized or pro- tected as a British subject in any difficulties or suits whatsoever in which he may be involved in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, within the time during which he shall not have been so enrolled.
XXXIX. And it is further ordered, that the Consul within his Consular district of the Peace for enfor may exercise any of the powers which by any Acts of the Imperial Parliament, now cement of Acts relating enacted or hereafter to be enacted, for the regulation of merchant-seamun, or for the re- to seamen and mercan-gulation of the mercantile marine, may be exercised by one or more Justices of the Peace
within Her Majesty's dominions.
tile marine.
may perform all acts
Consuls in Japan XL. And it is further ordered, that nothing in this Order contained shall be taken which may be perforin- or construed to preclude a British Consul within the domainions of the Tycoon of Japan ed by British Consuls from performing any act of administration or jurisdiction, or other act, which British Consuls within other States in amity with Her Majesty are, by law, usage, or sufferance, enabled to perform.
elsewhere.
Limitation of actions and suits.
XLI. And it is further ordered, that any suit or action brought against any person by reason of anything done under the authority and in execution of the power or juris- diction of Her Majesty, entrusted to him by this Order, or in execution of any of the provisions of this Order, shall be commenced within six calendar months after the fact committed, and not otherwise; and the defendant in every such action or suit shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions made with respect to defendants in actions or suits in an Act passed in the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty, entitled "An Act to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty, within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominion, and to render the same more effec- tual."
And the Right Honourable the Lord John Russell, and His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commis- sioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessray directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.
WM. L. BATHURST.
No. 53.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Dr. J. I. MURRAY, having reported his return to the Colony, has this day resumed his duties as Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong.
By Order,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, (In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th May, 1861.
No. 54.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to recognize GUSTAVUS OVERBECK, Esquire, as Acting Consul for Austria at this Port, during the absence of G. A. WIENER, Esquire, in Europe.
By Order,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, (In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 8th May, 1861.
No. 55.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The subjoined Copy of a Statement of the Assets and Liabilities of the CHANTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA, on the 30th June, 1860, having been co amunicated to this Government, is published for general information.
By Order,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, (In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th May, 1861.