703955-1870-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

COLONIAL

TREAS

ABUR

HONGKONG

DROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 1.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 1ST JANUARY, 1870.

VOL. XVI.

PROCLAMATION.

No. 9.

L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL.

By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by the Third Section of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled “An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions," it is provided that the said Act "shall be proclaimed in every British Possession by the Governor "thereof as soon as may be after he receives notice of the said Act, and shall come into operation in

that British. Possession on the day of such Proclamation: "

Now, therefore, I, SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, lo hereby proclaim that the Act, intituled "An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting "Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions," which is herewith published, shall on and from this Day be in force in the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st Day of December, 1869.

[32 Vict.]

Merchant Shipping (Colonial), 1869. CHAP. II,

[Ch. 11.]

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An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions.

[[13th May, 1869.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords

Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :•

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869.”

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,~

Short title. Definition of terms:

The term "British Possession" means any territory or place situate within Her Majesty's dominions, « British possession:"

and not forming part of the United Kingdom, or of the Channel Islands, or Isle of Man; and all

territories and places under one legislature as herein-after defined are deemed to be one British

possession for the purposes of this Act:

The term "legislature" includes any person or persons who exercise legislative authority in the British "Legislature.”

possession, and where there are local legislatures as well as a central legislature, means the central legislature only.

3. This Act shall be proclaimed in every British possession by the governor thereof as soon as may be Commencement of after he receives notice of this Act, and shafi come into operation in that British possession on the day of Act. such proclamation, which day is herein-after referred to as the commencement of this Act.

Coasting Trade.

4. After the commencement of this Act the legislature of a British possession, by any Act or Ordinance, Regulation of coasting fon time to time, may regulate the coasting trade of that British possession, subject in every case to the trade by colonial following conditions:

legislature.