MAIL SHIPS.
Mail Ships
Rules.
Orders by Courts in British possessions for application of the security. 6. Any order of a Court in a British possession directing any security to be applied shall recite the name of the Court and of the action or proceeding, the cause of action, and the judgment debt, and shall comprise a certificate by the Judge of the Court that the ship in respect of which the judgment is given is an exempted mail ship, and might but for such exemption have been arrested and sold in execution thereof, and that the judgment debt is still unsatisfied, and is payable out of the security lodged in respect of the ship in the High Court of Justice in England.
7. The order may require payment to be made either in London to a named agent of the execution creditor, or in the possession to some named officer of the Court from which the order issues.
8. Every such order shall be sealed with the seal of the Court, and shall be drawn up in duplicate, addressed to the Admiralty Registrar, Royal Courts of Justice, London, and shall be transmitted under cover to the prescribed officer of the Government of the possession.
9. The said duplicate orders when received by the prescribed officer shall be countersigned by him, and shall be forthwith transmitted to a Secretary of State, who shall cause one of such orders to be delivered to the Admiralty Registrar, and the Admiralty Registrar shall, subject to any direction of the High Court, make an order upon the Paymaster-General for payment of the required sum out of the security in accordance with these rules.
10. Unless the High Court shall otherwise order, and subject to existing rights of priority of liens, orders for the application of any security shall be paid in the order in which they are received by the Admiralty Registrar, but when two or more orders are received at the same time, they shall be paid in the order of their respective dates.
11. When the order requires payment to a named agent of the execution creditor in London, the money shall be payable at the rates of exchange current on the day on which the order is received by the Secretary of State.
12. If the order requires payment to be made to a named officer of the Court from which the order issues, such an amount shall be paid out by the Paymaster-General, to a person nominated by the Secretary of State, as will at the rates of exchange current on the day on which the order is received by the Secretary of State be necessary to purchase a draft for the amount of the order payable at sight in the possession, and