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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH OCTOBER, 1889.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 414.

The following Circular Despatch with its enclosures is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th October, 1889.

F. H. MAY,

Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET, .

13th August, 1889.

SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your government, a copy of an Order of the Queen in Council of the 23rd ultimo, revoking the Order in Council of the 26th day of June, 1873, respecting the tonnage measurement of German, vessels, and substituting other provisions for the same.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

Your most obedient humble Servant,

KNUTSFORD.

WH

AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT,

The 23rd day of July, 1889.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

"HEREAS 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 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 in their Certificates of Re- gistry 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 by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, it is enacted that" where Her Majesty has power "under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or any Act passed or hereafter to be passed amending the same to make an Order in Council, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time to make "such Order in Council, and by Order in Council to revoke, alter, or add to any Order so made:"

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And whereas it was made to appear to Her Majesty that the Rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of Merchant Ships in force under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, had been adopted by the Government of His Majesty the German Emperor, with the exception of a difference in the mode in cortin Steamers of estimating the allowance for engine room, and such rules were in force in that country and came into operation on the 1st day of January, 1873: