DIEU DROIT
HONGKONG ,
ANNO NONO
VICTORIE REGINÆ.
No. 1 of 1846.
Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its
Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superinten-
dent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of
the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 9 of 1844, entitled, " An Title.
"Ordinance to restrain all Persons within the Colony of Hongkongfrom
"Trading in the Empire of China to the Northward of the Thirty-second
66 Degree of North Latitude."
[23d January, 1846. ]
WHEREAS it is expedient that the said Ordinance, No. 9 of Preamble.
1844, should be amended, by declaring that Vessels engaged in the
Traffic thereby prohibited shall not be seized at Sea at a greater
Distance than One Hundred Miles from the Coast of China ; by
defining the Meaning of the Terms therein used, of " Ships or Vessels
sailing under the British Flag ;" by making further Provision for
the Title to Vessels engaged in such prohibited Trade, in the Event
of subsequent Sales, Transfers, or Mortgages ; and by introducing
more specific Provisions as to the Form of Procedure for the Seizure
and Sale of Vessels contravening the Enactments of said Ordinance :
I. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of seized No Vessel to be
at Sea at a
Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That greater Distance than
One Hundred
no Vessel shall be seized or detained in pursuance of the Provisions from the CoastMiles
of
of the said Ordinance, at Sea, at a greater Distance than One China.
Hundred Miles from the Coast of China.
II. And be it further enacted, That the Terms " Ships or Vessels Definition of the
term or Vessels
sailing under the British Flag," used in the said Ordinance, shall be sailing under the Brit-
held solely to mean and include British Vessels navigated according ish Flag.
to Law, or Vessels British owned, and provided with Sailing Letters
from the Government of Hongkong.
A III.