704045-1870-PROCLAMATION — Page 2

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH JANUARY, 1870:

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

Coasting Trade.

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

legislature. Rowing conditious:

(1.) The Act or Ordinance shall contain a suspending clause, providing that such Act or Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's pleasure thereon has been publicly signified in the British possession in which it has been passed.

(2.) The Act or Ordinance shall treat all British ships (including the ships of any British possession)

in exactly the same manner as ships of the British possession in which it is maile.

(3.) Where by treaty made before the passing of this Act Her Majesty has agreed to grant to any ships of any foreign state any rights or privileges in respect of the coasting trade of any British possession, such rights and privileges shall be enjoyed by such ships for so long as Her Majesty has already agreed or may liereafter agree to grant the same, anything in the Act or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.

5. The following sections of The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, are hereby repealed; namely,

Section three hundred and twenty-eight as from the commencement of this Act:

Sects. 328 and 163 of 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107,

Section one hundred and sixty-three as from the date in the case of each British possession at which repealed.

either an Act or Ordinance with respect to the coasting trade made within two years after the commencement of this Act in such British possession comes into operation, or if there is no such Act or Ordinance, at which tlie said two years expire.

Merchant Shipping.

G. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, from time to time to declare, with respect Registrars of British to the British possession mentioned in the order, the description of persons who are to be registrars of ships in British British ships in that British possession, and to revoke any order so made.

After the date specified in the order, or, if no date is specified, after the date of the proclamation of the order in the British possession, the order shall have effect as if it were contained in section thirty of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

possessions.

7. In the construction of The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and of the Acts amending the same, Application of Canada shall be deemed to be one British possession.

Merchant Shipping Acts to Canada.

8. Where the legislature of any British possession provides for the examination of, and grant of Colonial certificates to certificates of competency to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, master, mates, and and the Board of Trade reports to Her Majesty that they are satisfied that the examinations are so con- engineers. ducted as to be equally efficient as the examinations for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and that the certificates are granted on such principles as to show the like qualifications and competency as those granted under the said Acts, and are liable to be forfeited for the like reasons and in the like manner, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council,

7. To declare that the said certificates shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under the

said Acts:

2. To declare that all or any of the provisions of the said Acts which relate to certificates of competency

granted under those Acts shall apply to the certificates referred to in the said order:

3. To impose such conditions and to inake such regulations with respect to the said certificates, and to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation, and suspension thereof, as to Her Majesty may seem rit, and to impose penalties not exceeding fifty pounds for the breach of such conditions and regulations. Upon the publication in the London Gazette of any such Order in Council as last aforesaid, the pro- visions therein contained shall, from a date to be mentioned for the purpose in such order, take effect as if they had been contained in this Act.

It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to revoke any order made under this section.

No. 2.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Marine Notification received from the Government of India is published for general

information.

By Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th January, 1870.

Marine Department, Fort William, the 6th December 1869.

No. 17.

Marine Notification, the 6th December 1869.

Ender instructions from the Right Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India, His Excellency the Governor General in Council is pleased to direct that, in order to promote the exclusive use of the Commercial Code of Signals in Her Majesty's In Possessions, the use of Marryatt's Code of Signals shall be discontinued in all parts of India from the 1st July 1870, that on and after that date no signals will be made or answered from Government stations on shore or Her Majesty's *~ at sea, except by means of the Commercial Code of Signals.

(Signed,)

II. W. NORMAN, Major-Genl.,

Secy, to the Govt. of India.