CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852 — Page 31

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WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William IV., intituled An Act to regulate the Practice and the Fees in the Vice-Admiralty Courts abroad, and to obviate doubts as to their Jurisdiction, Her Majesty is empowered to make such Rules and Regulations, and to establish such Fees, and to alter them from time to time, as may be found expedient for the said Vice-Admiralty Courts; and whercas by an Order in Council, bearing date the 27th of June 1832, certain Rules and Regula. tions touching the Practice to be observed in Suits and Proceedings in Courts of Vice-Admiralty, and also certain Tables of Fees for the several Courts of Vice-Admiralty then existing, were established; and whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date the 25th day of June 1851, the 25th Section of the said Rules and Regulations which relates to Prosecutions for a Breach of the Laws for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was expunged, and in lieu thereof other Rules and Regulations relative thereto were established; and whereas by a further Order in Council dated the 11th day of February 1852 the said Rules and Regulations, and also the Tables of Fees thereto annexed marked Nos. 1. and 2., were directed to be taken and received by the respective Officers of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Hong Kong, We send you herewith a book containing a Copy of the aforesaid Order in Council of the 27th of June 1832, with the Rules, Regulations, and Tables of Fees thereby established, and also a Copy of the Order in Council of the 25th day of June 1851, with a Copy of the 25th Section of the Rules and Regulations adopted in lieu of that Section expunged from the Rules and Regulations so established by Order in Council of the 27th of June 1832, and also Copies of the said Order in Council of the 11th of February 1852, and of the Tables

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