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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH FEBRUARY, 1897.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-- No. 66.

The following is published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th February, 1897.

THE PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.

59 AND 60 VICTORIA.

CHAPTER 12.

An Act for the better reporting of Floating Derelicts.

[2nd July 1896.]

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par- liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Derelict Vessels (Report) Act, 1896.

2. Every master or other person for the time being in command of any British ship, after the passing of this Act, who shall become aware of the existence on the high seas of any floating derelict vessel, shall notify the same to the Lloyd's agent at his next place of call or arrival, and shall, together with such notification, furnish to the Lloyd's agent all such information as he may possess as to the supposed locality or identity of such derelict vessel, and the date when and place where the same may have been observed by or reported to him, and the Lloyd's agent shall forthwith on receipt of such notification and information transmit the same to the secretary of Lloyd's in London.

And if any such master fails to make such a report he shall be liable, on sum - mary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Short title.

Notice of derelict

vessels to be given by masters to

Lloyd's agents.

Lloyd's in default

3. If there shall be no Lloyd's agent at the next place of call or arrival, then and in Letters to be sent to such case the notification shall be made and the information furnished by such master of agents. or other person as aforesaid, to the Sceretary of Lloyd's London.

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4. Any information received by the society of Lloyd's as aforesaid, in pursuance Information to be of this Act, shall be published by the society forwith in the same manner it the Lloyd's. same extent as its reports of shipping casualties, and the society shall also forthwith communicate such information to the Board of Trade.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 67.

The following are published.

By Command,

J. II. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Sceretury.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th February, 1897.

Government of Japan.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

(The bearings are Magnetic, and those concerning the visibility of lights are given from seaward.)

No. 838.

JAPAN.

(49) TAIWAN WEST COAST-ANPING HARBOUR--DISAPPEARANCE OF A BEACON.

Referring to Notice to Marivers, No. 779 of 1896, the following information has been received from Nashiha, the Captain of H. I. M. S. Katsuragi, that a beacon (marked B) erected along the coast opposite Anping anchorage does not now exist.

This Notice affects the following Naval charts :-Nos. 372, 291.