66 66 " aforesaid, shall, by adding to the number of the "guns of such vessel, or by changing those on "board for other guns, or by the addition of any "equipment for war, increase or augment, or procure to be increased or augmented, or shall "be knowingly concerned in increasing or augmenting, the warlike force of any ship or vessel "of war, or cruizer, or other armed vessel, which, "at the time of her arrival in any part of the "United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty's "dominions, was a ship of war, cruizer, or armed "vessel, in the service of any Foreign Prince, "State, or Potentate, or of any person or persons "exercising, or assuming to exercise, any powers "of government in or over any colony, province, "or port of any province or people, belonging to "the subjects of any such Prince, State, or "Potentate, or to the inhabitants of any colony, "province, or part of any province or country, "under the controul of any person or persons so exercising, or assuming to exercise, the powers "of government, every such person so offending "shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and "shall, upon being convicted thereof, upon any "information or indictment, be punished by fine "and imprisonment, or either of them, at the dis"cretion of the Court before which such offender "shall be convicted." 68 Now, in order that none of Our subjects may unwarily render themselves liable to the penalties imposed by the said statute, We do hereby strictly command that no person or persons whatsoever, do commit any act, matter, or thing, whatsoever, contrary to the provisions of the said statute, upon pain of the several penalties by the said statute imposed, and of Our high displeasure. And We do hereby further warn and admonish all Our loving subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to Our protection, to observe towards each and all of the aforesaid Sovereigns, their subjects, and territories, and towards all belligerents whatsoever, with whom We are at peace, the duties of neutrality; and to respect, in all and each of them, the exercise of those belligerent rights which We and Our Royal Predecessors have always claimed to exercise. And We do hereby further warn all Our loving subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to Our protection, that, if any of them shall presume, in contempt of this Our Royal Proclamation, and of Our high displeasure, to do any acts in derogation of their duty as subjects of a neutral Sovereign, in a War between other Sovereigns, or in violation or contravention of the Law of Nations in that behalf, as more especially by breaking, or endeavouring to break, any blockade lawfully and actually established by or on behalf of any or either of the said Sovereigns, by carrying officers, soldiers, despatches, arms, ammunition, military stores or materials, or any article or articles considered, and deemed to be, contraband of war, according to the law or modern usages of nations, for the use or service of any or either of the said Sovereigns, that all persons so offending, together with their ships and goods, will rightfully incur, and be justly liable to, hostile capture, and to the penalties denounced by the Law of Nations in that behalf. And We do hereby give notice, that all Our subjects and persons entitled to Our protection who may misconduct themselves in the premises, will do so at their peril, and of their own wrong; and that they will in no wise obtain any protection from Us against such capture, or such penalties as aforesaid, but will, on the contrary, incur Our high displeasure by such misconduct. Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fiftynine, and in the twenty-second year of Our reign. GOD save the QUEEN. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 17, AT the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 13th day of May, 1859. PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. THIS day the Right Honourable Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, Bart., and G.C.B., was, by Her Majesty's command, sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 13th day of May, 1859. PRESENT: The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas by the "Passengers Act, 1855," it is amongst other things enacted, that before any passenger ship shall be cleared out, the Emigra tion Officer at the port of clearance, shall satisfy himself that there is on board a sufficient quantity of pure water, carried in tanks or casks, to secure throughout the intended voyage the issue of three quarts, daily, to each statute adult, for the use of the passengers, exclusive of the quantity prepared for cooking; and whereas it is also enacted, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order in Council, to prescribe such rules and regulations as to Her Majesty may seem fit, for permitting the use on board passenger ships of an apparatus for distilling water, and for defining, in such case, the quantity of fresh water to be carried in tanks or casks for the passengers. Now, therefore, Her Majesty doth, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance and in exercise of the authority vested in Her by the said "Passengers Act, 1855," hereby order as follows: Any passenger ship may be cleared out and proceed on her voyage, having on board in tanks or casks only half the quantity of pure water required by the said Act to be carried for the use of the passengers, provided; 1. That there be on board such passenger ship an efficient apparatus for distilling fresh water from salt water, of the description commonly known as Normandy's Patent, or of such other description as may, with the sanction of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, be notified in the London Gazette, as having been approved by the Emigration Commissioner. 2. That the owners, charterers, or masters of the ship, before clearance, lodge with such Emigration Officer a certificate from some competent person, to be named by the Emigration Officer, declaring that the apparatus is of one of the de scriptions above specified, and that it has been, within the seven days immediately preceding the date of such certificate, examined by a competent person, and is then in good working condition, and stating the number of imperial gallons of pure fresh water which it is capable of producing in every twenty-four hours. 3. That the Emigration Officer is satisfied that this number of gallons is not less than the whole number of persons about to proceed on the intended voyage of such ship; that is to say: the whole number of cabin passengers, passengers, and crew. 4. That there is rated on the ship's articles and on board the ship, some person or persons who, to the satisfaction of the said Emigration Officer, shall be competent for the proper management and repair of such distilling apparatus. And to prevent all doubts on the construction of this Order in Council, it is hereby further ordered, that the terms "Passenger Ship," "Emigration Officer," "Statute Adult," and "Master," shall herein have the same significations as are assigned to them respectively in the said "Passengers Act, 1855.” And the Right Honourable Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Wm. L. Bathurst. At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 13th day of May, 1859. The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the representations |