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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5тп MAY, 1883.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 163.

Notice is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint provisionally and until further orders, A. B. JOHNSON, Esquire, to be Acting Crown Solicitor, during the absence on leave of EDMUND SHARP, Esquire, Crown Solicitor.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th May, 1883.

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 164.

The following Copy of an Order of the QUEEN in Council, dated 14th day of February, 1883, modifying the Order in Council of the 30th of September, 1873, respecting the Tonnage Measurement of Italian Vessels, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th May, 1883.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,

The 14th day of February 1883.

PRESENT,

W. H. MARSH,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

Colonial Secretary,

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 remeasured 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 pur- poses, 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:

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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, 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 deemed to be the tonnage of such ships; provided nevertheless, that if the owner or master of any Italian steam ship 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 the Government of His Majesty the King of Italy have by Royal Decree dated the 30th day of July 1882, modified the rules for engine room measurement and deduction applicable to Italian steam ships, and the said modified rules are now the same as those in force under the said principal Act, and came into operation in the said kingdom of Italy on the 21st day of September 1882: HER MAJESTY is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council to direct that the steam ships of Italy, the certificates of Italian nationality and registry of which are dated on or after the 21st day of September 1882, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in the said certificates of Italian nationality and registry.

C. L. PEEL.

(Vide Hongkong Government Gazette of 1877, page 235).