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No. 119.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH JULY, 1873.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Circular Despatch from the Right Honorable The Secretary of State for the Colonies is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd July, 1873.
Circular.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary,
DOWNING STREET, 20th May, 1873. SIR,--I have the honor to transmit to you, for information in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of The Queen in Council of the 5th Instant, extending to French Vessels the advantages held out by the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, to Ships of Foreign Countries adopting the Rules for the measurement of tonnage which obtain in this Country.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
KIMBERLEY.
HONGKONG.
At the Court at Windsor, the 5th day of May, 1873.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
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 principal Act have been adopted by the Government of any foreign country, and are in force in that country, it shall be lawlul 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 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 it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the rules concerning the measurement of tonnage of merchant ships now in force under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," have been adopted by the President of the French Republic, and are in force in French dominions.
Her Majesty is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to direct that the shios of France, the certificates of French nationality and registry of which are dated on or after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy three, shall be deemed to be of the ton- nage denoted in the said certificates of French: nationality and registry.
No. 120.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby made known that the QUEEN'S Exequatur, empowering M. ADAM SIENKIEWICZ to act as French Consul at this Port, received Her Majesty's Signature on the 7th June, 1873.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd July, 1873.
Νο. 121.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Post Office Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd July, 1873. ·
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
It is hereby notified that henceforward the postage, which must be paid in advance, upon
all registered Letters forwarded by British Packet to Cairo or fo any other place in the interior of Egypt will be 16 'cents for each half ounce, and that the registration fee will be 18 cents for each letter.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd July, 1873.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Postmaster General.
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