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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 26, 1907.

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

No. 295.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

21st March, 1907.

SIR, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, copies of an Order of the King in Council applying Section 238 of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1894," as to Merchant Seamen Deserters to the Republic of Ni-

caragua.

I have, etc.,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

ELGIN.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

SEAMEN DESERTERS IN NICARAGUA.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 1ST DAY of March, 1907.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

THEREAS by subsection 1 of section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1994, it is provided that where it appears to His Majesty that due facilities are or will be given by the Government of any foreign country for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British ships in that country, His Majesty may by Order in Council stating that such facilities are or will be given, declare that that section shall apply in the case of such foreign country, subject to any limitations, conditions, and qualifications contained in the

Order:

And whereas it has been made to appear to His Majesty that the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua will give due facilities for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British ships in that country.

Now therefore His Majesty by virtue of the power vested in Him by the hereinbefore recited subsection (1) of section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and by and with the advice of His Privy Council is pleased to order and declare that the said section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply in the case of the Republic of Nicaragua.

A. W. FITZROY.