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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 21, 1914.

No. 328.-It is hereby notified that Mr. PAUL MARY HODGSON, Crown Solicitor, has been authorised, with effect from the 5th August, 1914, to conduct prize proceedings on behalf of the Crown within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, In Prize.

21st August, 1914.

No. 329.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments, with effect in each case from the 5th August, 1914-

Mr. GEORGE HERBERT WAKEMAN to be Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hong-

kong, In Prize,

Mr. CHARLES ALEXANDER DICK MELBOURNE, Mr. JOHN WILLIAM LEE-JONES, and Mr. GEORGE ALBERT WOODCOCK, to be Deputy Registrars of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, In Prize, and

Mr. JOHN WILLIAM LES-JONES to be Marshal of the Supreme Court of Hong-

kong, In Prize.

21st August, 1914.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 330.-Whereas by section 3 of the Naval Prize Act 1864 it is provided that every Court of Admiralty or other Court exercising Admiralty jurisdiction in His Majesty's dominions for the time being authorised to take cognizance of and judicially proceed in matters of prize shall be a prize court within the meaning of the said Act:

And whereas the Supreme Court of Hongkong is a Court of Admiralty within the meaning of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 :

And whereas by section 2 of the Prize Courts Act 1894 it was provided that any com- mission warrant or instructions from Her Majesty the Queen or the Admiralty for the purpose of commissioning or regulating the procedure of a prize court at any place in a British possession might notwithstanding the existence of peace be issued at any time with a direction that the court should act only upon such proclamation as hereinafter mentioned being made in the possession and that where any such commission warrant or instructions had been issued then subject to instructions from Her Majesty the Vice-Admiral of such possession might when satisfied by information from a Secretary of State or otherwise that war had broken out between Her Majesty and any foreign State proclaim that war had so broken out and thereupon the said commission warrant and instructions should take effect as if the same had been issued after the breaking out of such war and such foreign State were named therein and that the said commission and warrant might authorise a Colonial Court of Admiralty within the meaning of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 to act as a prize court:

And whereas Her late Majesty Queen Victoria by Her Commission under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland bearing date at Westminster the tenth day of July in the Sixty-third year of Her reign was pleased inter alia to authorise the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral for the time being or any two or more of them by Warrant notwithstanding the existence of peace to will and require any such Colonial Court of Admiralty within the meaning of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 as the said Commissioners or any two or more of them might select upon pro- clamation being made in that part of Her Majesty's Dominions within which such Court should have jurisdiction by the Vice-Admiral thereof that war had broken out between Her Majesty and some foreign State or States and not otherwise to take cognizance of and judicially proceed in all matters of prize:

And whereas by warrant under the hands of two of the said Commissioners and the seal of the Office of Admiralty bearing date the seventeenth day of August 1899 the said Supreme Court of Hongkong and the Chief Justice of the said Court and all others the Judges or Judge for the being of the said Court or other the persons or person executing the duties of the Office of Judge of the said Court were authorised and required inter alia

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