except at his own request, in any court of justice in respect of the circumstances which led to the issue of the warrant. Interpretation Clause Terms. 30. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the Interprefollowing terms have the meanings herein-after respectively tation of assigned to them; that is to say, "Foreign state" includes any foreign prince, colony, pro- "Foreign vince, or part of any province or people, or any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province or people: State:" "Military service" shall include military telegraphy and any "Military other employment whatever, in or in connexion with Service: " any military operation : "Naval "Naval service" shall, as respects a person, include service as a marine, employment as a pilot in piloting or direct- Service: " ing the course of a ship of war or other ship when such ship of war or other ship is being used in any military or naval operation, and any employment whatever on board a ship of war, transport, store ship, privateer or ship under letters of marque; and as respects a ship, include any user of a ship as a transport, store ship, privateer or ship under letters of marque: Kingdom: " "British Posses sions: " Secretary of State:" "Gover "United Kingdom" includes the Isle of Man, the Channel "United Islands, and other adjacent islands: "British possession" means any territory, colony, or place being part of Her Majesty's dominions, and not part of the United Kingdom, as defined by this Act: "The Secretary of State" shall mean any one of Her "The Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State: "The Governor" shall as respects India mean the Governor General or the Governor of any presidency, and where a nor: British possession consists of several constituent colonies, mean the Governor General of the whole possession or the Governor of any of the constituent colonies, and as respects any other British possession it shall mean the officer for the time being administering the government of such possession; also any person acting for or in the capacity of a governor shall be included under the term "Governor": Repeal of ment Act. 59 G. 3, c. 69. Saving as to Com "Court of Admiralty" shall mean the High Court of Admiralty of England or Ireland, the Court of Session of Scotland, or any Vice-Admiralty Court within Her Majesty's dominions: "Ship" shall include any description of boat, vessel, floating battery, or floating craft; also any description of boat, vessel, or other craft or battery, made to move either on the surface of or under water, or sometimes on the surface of and sometimes under water: "Building" in relation to a ship shall include the doing any act towards or incidental to the construction of a ship, and all words having relation to building shall be construed accordingly: "Equipping" in relation to a ship shall include the furnishing a ship with any tackle, apparel, furniture, provisions, arms, munitions, or stores, or any other thing which is used in or about a ship for the purpose of fitting or adapting her for the sea or for naval service, and all words relating to equipping shall be construed accordingly : "Ship and equipment" shall include a ship and everything in or belonging to a ship: "Master" shall include any person having the charge or command of a ship. Repeal of Acts, and Saving Clauses 31. From and after the commencement of this Act, an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, chapter sixty-nine, intituled "An Act "to prevent the enlisting or engagement of His Majesty's 'subjects to serve in foreign service, and the fitting out or "equipping, in His Majesty's dominions, vessels for warlike "purposes, without His Majesty's license," shall be repealed: Provided that such repeal shall not affect any penalty, forfeiture, or other punishment incurred or to be incurred in respect of any offence committed before this Act comes into operation, nor the institution of any investigation or legal proceeding, or any other remedy for enforcing any such penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid. 32. Nothing in this Act contained shall subject to forfeiture missioned any commissioned ship of any foreign state, or give to any Foreign British court over or in respect of any ship entitled to Ships. recognition as a commissioned ship of any foreign state any jurisdiction which it would not have had if this Act had not passed. not to extend to 33. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed Penalties to extend to subject to any penalty any person who enters into the military service of any prince, state, or potentate in Asia, Persons with such leave or license as is for the time being required by entering law in the case of subjects of Her Majesty entering into the Military military service of princes, states, or potentates in Asia. into Service VOL. II. K K APPENDIX II DECLARATION OF PARIS (1856) LES Plénipotentiaires qui ont signé le Traité de Paris du trente Mars, mil huit cent cinquante-six, réunis en Conférence, Considérant: Que le droit maritime, en temps de guerre, a été pendant longtemps l'objet de contestations regrettables; Que l'incertitude du droit et des devoirs en pareille matière, donne lieu, entre les neutres et les belligérants, à des divergences d'opinion qui peuvent faire naître des difficultés sérieuses et même des conflits; Qu'il y a avantage, par conséquent, à établir une doctrine uniforme sur un point aussi important; Que les Plénipotentiaires assemblés au Congrès de Paris ne sauraient mieux répondre aux intentions, dont leurs Gouvernements sont animés, qu'en cherchant à introduire dans les rapports internationaux des principes fixes à cet égard; Dûment autorisés, les susdits Plénipotentiaires sont convenus de se concerter sur les moyens d'atteindre ce but; et étant tombés d'accord ont arrêté la Déclaration solennelle ci-après : 1. La course est et demeure abolie; 2. Le pavillon neutre couvre la marchandise ennemie, à l'exception de la contrebande de guerre; 3. La marchandise neutre, à l'exception de la contrebande de guerre, n'est pas saisissable sous pavillon ennemi; 4. Les blocus, pour être obligatoires, doivent être effectifs, c'est-à-dire, maintenus par une force suffisante pour interdire réellement l'accès du littoral de l'ennemi. Les Gouvernements des Plénipotentiaires soussignés s'engagent à porter cette Déclaration à la connaissance des Etats, qui n'ont pas été appelés à participer au Congrès de Paris, et à les inviter à y accéder. Convaincus que les maximes qu'ils viennent de proclamer ne sauraient être accueillies qu'avec gratitude par le monde entier, les Plénipotentiaires soussignés ne doutent pas, que les efforts de leurs Gouvernements pour en généraliser l'adoption ne soient couronnés d'un plein succès. La présente Déclaration n'est et ne sera obligatoire qu'entre les Puissances, qui y ont, ou qui y auront accédé. Fait à Paris, le seize Avril, mil huit cent cinquante-six. |