THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH AUGUST, 1880.
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I regret that through an oversight this information was only communicated to the West Indian olonies, and I have now to request that you will cause the termination of the Treaties in question to › made known in the Colony under your Government.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
he Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
KIMBERLEY.
DOWNING STREET,
25th June, 1880.
SIR,I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, pies of the Order in Council of the 14th of August, 1879, respecting the Revised Regulations for reventing collisions at sea, and also copies of the Order in Council of the 24th of March, 1880, on the me subject.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering The Government of
HONGKONG.
KIMBERLEY.
AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT,
The 14th day of August, 1879.
PRESENT :
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
Whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," it was enacted, that on and fter the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, or such later day as might be xed for the purpose by Order in Council, the regulations contained in the table marked C in the chedule to the said Act should come into operation and be of the same force as if they were enacted the body of the said Act; but that Her Majesty might from time to time, on the joint recommen- ation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, by Order in Council, annul or modify any of the aid Regulations, or make new Regulations in addition thereto or in substitution therefor; and that y alterations in, or additions to, such Regulations made in manner aforesaid should be of the me force as the Regulations in the said Schedule:
And whereas, by the same Act, it was further provided, that whenever it should be made to ppear to Her Majesty that the Government of any foreign country was willing that the regulations or preventing collisions contained in Table C in the Schedule to the said Act, or such other Regulations r preventing collisions as are for the time being in force under the said Act, should apply to the hips of such country when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction, Her Majesty might, by Order Council, direct that such Regulations should apply to the ships of the said foreign country, whether ithin British jurisdiction or not; and it was further provided by the said Act, that whenever an rder in Council had been issued applying any Regulation made by or in pursuance of the said Act >the ships of any foreign country, such ships should, in all cases arising in any British court, be cemed to be subject to such Regulation, and should, for the purpose of such Regulation, be treated as
they were British ships:
And whereas, by an Order in Council made in pursuance of the said recited Act, and dated the ith day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, Her Majesty was pleased to rectFirst, that the Regulations contained in the Schedule to the said Act should be modified by e substitution for such Regulations of certain Regulations appended to the said Order:
Secondly, that the said Regulations appended to the said Order should, on aud after the first day June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, apply to French ships, whether within British
risdiction or not:
And whereas, by several Orders in Conncil subsequently mado, Her Majesty was pleased to direct at the Regulations appended to the said Order of the ninth of January one thousand eight hundred sixty-three should apply to ships of the countries specified in the said Orders, whether within ritish jurisdiction or not:
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