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At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3rd day of March, 1859.
Present:
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
WHEREAS Her Majesty was pleased, by an Order in Council, passed on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, in pursuance of the powers vested in Her Majesty by an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to regulate the Trade to China and India," to prohibit Her Majesty's subjects from resorting, for the purposes of trade and commerce, to any other ports in the dominions of the Emperor of China than those of Canton, Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghae, or than might be in the occupation of Her Majesty's forces; and that any of Her Majesty's subjects committing a breach or violation of the said direction should, upon conviction thereof as therein mentioned, be liable to the penalty therein mentioned:
And whereas Her Majesty was also pleased, by another Order in Council, passed on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, (amongst other things,) to order and declare that all trade whatsoever of Her Majesty's subjects in, to, or from any part of the coast of China to the northward of the thirty-second degree of north latitude, should be unlawful, and that every party engaged in such trade as principal, agent, ship-owner, ship-master, or supercargo, should be liable to be apprehended, conveyed in custody, tried, and punished as therein mentioned; and further, that it should be lawful for any of the Commanders of Her Majesty's ships, or any other officer duly authorized in that behalf, to seize any ship or vessel under the British flag which might reasonably be suspected of having been engaged, or being engaged, in trade declared to be unlawful as aforesaid, and to bring
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At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3rd day of March, 1859.
Present:
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
WHEREAS Her Majesty was pleased, by an Order in Council, passed on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty- three, in pursuance of the powers vested in Her Majesty by an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the third and fourth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to regulate the Trade to China and India," to prohibit Her Majesty's subjects from resorting, for the purposes of trade and commerce, to any other ports in the dominions of the Emperor of China than those of Canton, Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghae, or than might be in the occupation of Her Majesty's forces; and that any of Her Majesty's subjects committing a breach or violation of the said direction should, upon conviction thereof as therein mentioned, be liable to the penalty therein mentioned:
And whereas Her Majesty was also pleased, by another Order in Council, passed on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- three, (amongst other things,) to order and declare that all trade whatsoever of Her Majesty's subjects in, to, or from any part of the coast of China to the northward of the thirty-second degree of north lati- tude, should be unlawful, and that every party engaged in such trade as principal, agent, ship- owner, ship-master, or supercargo, should be liable to be apprehended, conveyed in custody, tried, and punished as therein mentioned; and further, that it should be lawful for any of the Commanders of Her Majesty's ships, or any other officer duly authorized in that behalf, to seize any ship or vessel under the British flag which might reasonably be suspected of having been engaged, or being engaged, in trade declared to be unlawful as aforesaid, and to bring
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