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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JULY, 1888.

33. When any witness is examined his evidence shall be taken down by the Secretary, or if deemed requisite by the Board the services of a short-hand writer shall be engaged for the purposes of taking down such evidence.

THE SECRETARY TO THE BOARD.

34. The Secretary to the Board shall keep an Order Book in which he shall enter and number in succession the subjects intended to be brought under discussion at each Meeting.

35. The Secretary shall also keep Minutes of the Proceedings of the Board, and shall, two clear days at least before each Meeting, send a printed copy of the Minutes of the previous Meeting to each Member.

36. The Secretary shall attend upon any Select Committee if so required.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 317.

The following Circular Despatch, accompanying a copy of an Order of the Queen in Council, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th July, 1888.

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

28th May, 1888.

I SIR,--With reference to Lord Carnarvon's Circular Despatch of the 19th of November, 1875, 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 3rd instant, revoking the Order in Council of the 26th October, 1875, respecting the tonnage admeasurement of Netherlands Vessels, and substituting other provisions for the same.

I have the honour to be.

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

Sir.

Your most obedient humble Servant.

KNUTSFORD,

WH

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,

The 3rd day of May, 1888.

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 Govern- ment 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 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 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":

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 King of the Netherlands, with the exception of a difference in the mode in certain 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, 1876: