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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1894.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -- No. 46.

The following is published.

By Command,

G. T. M. OBRIEN,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd February, 1894.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET, 15th December, 1893.

SIR,With reference to the Earl of Derby's Circular despatch of the 6th of March, 1883, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty in Council modifying the provisions of the Order in Council of the 14th of February, 1883, in regard to the mode of estimating the net registered tonnage of Italian Ships.

I have the honour to be,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,

The 23rd day of November, 1893. PRESENT,

RIPON.

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

Whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," it is enacted that whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of merchant ships for the time being in force under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, therein called the principal Act, have been adopted by the Government of any foreign country, and are in force in that country, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by Order in Council to direct that the ships of such foreign country shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers, and thereupon it shall no longer be necessary for such ships to be re-measured in any port or place in Her Majesty's dominions, but such ships shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted on their certificates of registry or other papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes, in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in the certificates of registry of British ships is to be deemed the tonnage of such ships:

And whereas Her Majesty, by Order in Council dated the 30th day of September, 1873, was pleased to direct that merchant, sailing, and steam ships, belonging to the Kingdom of Italy, the measurement whereof had, after the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other national papers of such ships testified by the dates thereof, should be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their registers or other national papers, in the same manner, and to the same extent, and for the same purposes, in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in the certificates of registry of British ships is deaned to be the tonuage of such ships; provided nevertheless, that if the owner or master of any Italian steamship should desire the deduction for engine-room in such ship to be estimated under the rules for engine-room measurement and deduction applicable to British ships instead of under the Italian rule, the engine room should be measured and the deduction calculated according to the British rules:

And whereas Her Majesty by Order in Connecil dated the 14th day of February 1883. was pleased to declare that (the rules for engine room measurement and deduction applicable to the steamships of Italy, having been modified by Royal Decree of His Majesty the King of Italy, dated the 30th day of July 1882), the steamships of Italy, the certificates of Italian nationality and registry of which were dated on or after the 21st day of September 1882, should be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in the said certificates of Italian nationality and registry.

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that it is expedient that certain additions should be made to the provisions of the said last recited Order in Council in regard to the mode of estimating the net registered tonnage of Italian ships.

NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty in virtue of the powers vested in Her by the said recited Acts, and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is further pleased to direct as follows, viz., that in the event of the net registered tonnage of Italian ships, estimated under the British rules, being denoted on their Certificates of Registry or other national papers, the same shall be deemed to be of the tonnage so denoted therein.

C. L. PEEL.