in any such Consular register, shall within a reasonable time after the promulgation of this Order, to be specified in a notice to be affixed and publicly exhibited in the Consular Office, apply to the Consul of the district to be enrolled in such register; and every British subject who may arrive within the said dominions, save and except any British subject who may be borne on the muster roll of any British ship arriving in a port of China, shall within a reasonable time after his arrival, to be specified as aforesaid, apply to the Consul of the district to be enrolled in such register; and any British subject who shall refuse or neglect to make application so to be enrolled, and who shall not be able to excuse, to the satisfaction of the said Consul, such his refusal or neglect, shall not be entitled to be recognized or protected as a British subject in any difficulties or suits whatsoever, in which he may have been involved within the dominions of the Emperor of China within the time during which he shall not have been so enrolled.

XLI. And it is further ordered, that the Consul within his Consular district may exercise any of the powers which by any Acts of the Imperial Parliament now enacted or hereafter to be enacted for the regulation of merchant seamen, or for the regulation of the mercantile marine, may be exercised by one or more justices of the peace within Her Majesty's dominions.

XLII. And it is further ordered, that nothing in this Order contained shall be taken or construed to preclude a British Consul within the dominions of the Emperor of China from performing any act of administration, or jurisdiction, or other act, which British Consuls within other States at amity with Her Majesty, are by law, usage, or sufferance, enabled to perform.

XLIII. And it is further ordered, that it shall be lawful for the Chief Superintendent or Consul to execute a writ of the Supreme Court of the colony of Hong Kong, and take security from each and every party named in such writ for his appearance in person or by his attorney at Hong-Kong, and in default of such security to send such party to Hong-Kong, in the manner pointed out in Article XXXI of this Order: provided always, that the Chief Superintendent or Consul shall not be liable to an action for the escape of any party captured under any such writ.

XLIV. And it is further ordered, that any suit or action brought against the Chief Superintendent or Consul in the Supreme Court of the colony of Hong-Kong, by reason of anything done under the authority and in execution of the power or jurisdiction of Her Majesty entrusted to him by this Order, shall be commenced or prosecuted within 6 months after he shall have been within the jurisdiction of the said Court, and not otherwise, and the defendant in every such action or suit shall be entitled to the benefit of the

provisions made with respect to defendants in actions or suits, in an Act passed in the 6th and 7th years of Her Majesty [cap. 94], intituled "An Act to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more effectual."

XLV. And it is further ordered, that the Supreme Court of the colony of Hong Kong shall have power to take cognizance of offences committed by British subjects within the peninsula of Macao, and of suits originating there when the party offending or the party sued shall come or be found within its jurisdiction; but it shall not have power to issue any warrant or writ to be executed or served within the peninsula of Macao.

XLVI. And it is further ordered, that if any provision of any Article of this Order shall be in anywise repugnant to, or at variance with, certain Orders passed by His late Majesty King William IV, on the 9th day of December, 1833,* or certain Orders passed by Her Majesty on the 4th day of January, 1843,† and on the 24th day of February, 1813+, and on the 2nd day of October, 1843,§ and on the 17th day of April, 1814, or any of them, then such provision of such Article of this Order, so long as the saine shall be in force, shall be obeyed and observed, anything in the said recited Orders in Council contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

XLVII. And it is further ordered, that if any law or ordinance hereafter made in pursuance of the Act of the 6th and 7th years of Her Majesty's reign [cap. 80],¶ intituled "An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China," shall be in any wise repugnant to or at variance with any of the provisions of this present Order of Her Majesty in Council, then such law or ordinance, so long as the same shall be in force, shall be obeyed and observed, anything in this Order contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

XLVIII. And it is further ordered, that this Order shall take effect from and after the 1st day of November next ensuing.

And the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, 2 of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.

WM. L. BATHURST.

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Pages 260, 262, 264.
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BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, for the delivering up of Seamen Deserters from Sicilian Merchant Vessels in British and East Indian Ports.-August 19, 1853.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 19th day of
August, 1853.
PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852" [cap. 26], it is provided that, "whenever it is made to appear to Her Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in the territories of any foreign Power, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, stating that such facilities are or will be given, declare that seamen, not being slaves, who desert from merchant-ships belonging to a subject of such Power, when within Her Majesty's dominions or the territories of the East India Company, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships, and may limit the operation of such Order, and may render the operation thereof subject to such conditions and qualifications, if any, as may be deemed expedient.

And whereas it hath been made to appear to Her Majesty, that due facilities will be given for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant-ships in the territories belonging to His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the 2 Sicilies:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that from and after the publication hereof in the "London Gazette," seamen, not being slaves, who desert from merchant-ships belonging to subjects of the King of the Kingdom of the 2 Sicilies, within Her Majesty's dominions or the territories of the East India Company, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Commissioners for the affairs of India, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. C. GREVILLE.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, relative to the Privileges of the Trade and Shipping of Brazil in British Ports.October 24, 1853.

At the Court at Windsor, the 24th day of October, 1853.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament, holden in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of Her present Majesty [cap. 47], intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty to abolish, otherwise than by Treaty, on condition of reciprocity, differential duties on foreign ships," it is provided, that where it shall appear to Her Majesty that by the law or regulations of any foreign Power, the trade and shipping of Great Britain in the ports of such foreign Power have been placed upon the same footing as the trade and shipping of such foreign Power, either absolutely or on condition of equal or like benefits being conceded to the vessels of such foreign Power in the ports of Her Majesty, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order to be by her made, with the advice of her Privy Council, and to be published in the "London Gazette," to order and declare that the trade and shipping of such foreign Power shall have the benefit of the provisions of the said Act.

And whereas it appears to Her Majesty, that by the laws of Brazil, the trade and shipping of Great Britain, in the ports of Brazil, have been placed on the same footing as the trade and shipping of Brazil.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in her by the said recited Act, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, that from and after the publication hereof in the "London Gazette," the trade and shipping of Brazil shall have the benefit of the provisions of the said recited Act.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. C. GREVILLE.

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BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, granting the Privilege of Copyright in favour of Books, Prints, Dramatic Pieces, Compositions, Drawings, Paintings, Articles of Sculpture, Engravings, Lithographs, and other Works of Art, first published in Hamburgh.-November 25, 1853.

At the Court at Windsor, the 25th day of November, 1853.
PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

*

WHEREAS a Treaty has been concluded between Her Majesty and the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburgh, whereby due protection has been secured by the said Senate, within the State of Hamburgh, for the benefit of authors of books, prints, dramatic pieces, musical compositions, drawings, paintings, articles of sculpture, engravings, lithographs, and any other works of art in which the laws of Great Britain and of Hamburgh do now, or may hereafter, give their respective subjects the right of property or copyright, and for the benefit of the lawful representatives or assigns of such authors, with regard to any such works first published within the dominions of Her Majesty:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of her Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority committed to her by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 7th and 8th years of her reign [cap. 12],† intituled, "An Act to amend the law relating to international copyright," doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the 16th day of December, 1853, the authors, inventors, designers, engravers, and makers of any of the following works; that is to say: books, prints, articles of sculpture, dramatic works, musical compositions, and any other works of art in which the laws of Great Britain give to British subjects the privilege of copyright, and the executors, administrators, and assigns of such authors, inventors, designers, engravers, and makers respectively, shall, as respects works first published within the State of Hamburgh after the said 16th day of December, 1853, have the privilege of copyright therein for a period equal to the term of copyright which authors, inventors, designers, engravers, and makers of the like works, respectively, first published in the United Kingdom, are by law entitled to; provided such books, dramatic pieces, musical compositions, prints, articles of sculpture, or other works of art, shall have been registered, and copies thereof shall have been delivered, according to the requirements of the said recited Act, within 3 months after the first publication thereof in any part + Vol. XXXIV. Page 1128.

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