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Rules.

application of the security in discharge of any damages, fine, debt, Mail Ships claim, sum, or forfeiture, where the same are or is recovered or pay- able either in the British possession, or under proceedings pending concurrently in that British possession and in any other British posses- sion or the United Kingdom:

Now, Therefore, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:-

Notices of exemption.

1. Any rules of the High Court of Justice in England, made under the provisions of the Mail Ships Act, 1891, (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), shall be transmitted by a Secretary of State to the Government of every possession to which the Act is applied for the pur- pose of a convention, and shall be published by such Government in the Gazette of the possession, and also in such local official Gazettes published in the possession as the Government of the possession may prescribe.

2. A copy of every notice and list published by the Board of Trade under the Act, or under any rules of court made under the Act, shall be transmitted by a Secretary of State to the Government of every posses- sion to which the Act is applied for the purpose of a particular con-

vention.

3. A copy of every such notice and list, signed by a secretary to the Government of the possession, or other prescribed officer, shall be pub- lished in the official Gazette of the possession, and a copy of such Gazette notification shall be kept publicly exhibited in the court-room of every Colonial Court of Admiralty in the possession, and a copy of the said Gazette containing any such notification shall be receivable in evidence by every arresting authority in the possession.

4. If notwithstanding its exemption, an exempted mail ship is arrested in the possession, the Government of the possession, on being informed by the owner of such arrest and of the arresting authority, and ou being satisfied that the ship is an exempted mail ship, shall forthwith send a special notice to the arresting authority, informing him that the ship is an exempted mail ship, and as such entitled to release.

Actions against exempted ships.

5. An action may be commenced against the owners of an exempted mail ship in the like cases, in the same manner and subject to the same rules as an Admiraly action in rem, and in any Colonial Court of Admiralty in the possession in which such an action might have been brought if the ship were not an exempted mail ship.

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