by the governor of the said possession of Tasmania shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under the said acts. [The remainder of this Order, except the concluding paragraph, is, mutatis mutandis, the same as the corresponding portion of the Order relating to the grant of colonial certificates of competency by the Marine Board of New South Wales, supra, p. 6.] This Order shall take effect in the said possession of Tasmania from and after the date hereof, and shall be deemed to apply to and take effect with respect to all such colonial certificates of competency as shall have been granted as aforesaid since the 1st day of April, 1876. Certificates of competency (Tasmania). At the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of February, 1876: (Victoria). WHEREAS by the "Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869," it is (among Certificates other things) enacted, that--[Here follows a recital of the 32 Vict. c. 11, s. 8.] of competency And whereas the legislature of the British possessions of Victoria have provided for the examination of and grant of certificates of competency for the foreign trade to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British sea-going steam ships, which certificates are hereinafter denominated colonial certificates of competency, and the Board of Trade have reported to her Majesty that they are satisfied that, &c.: And whereas her Majesty, by Order in Council dated the 30th day of March, 1871, has been pleased to declare that (subject to certain conditions and regulations therein contained) the said colonial certificates of competency granted by the Steam Navigation Board of Victoria, appointed by the government of the said possession of Victoria, shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under the said acts relating to merchant shipping: And whereas by the condition or regulation, numbered 5, contained in the said recited Order in Council, it is provided that such colonial certificates of competency shall be granted only to persons who have been domiciled in the said possession of Victoria, or who have served in ships registered therein, for a period of or for periods amounting to at least three years immediately preceding their application for such colonial certificates, and that certificates of competency granted contrary to this regulation shall be regarded as imp operly granted: And whereas it has been represented to her Majesty in Council that the provisions of the said 5th condition or regulation in the said recited Order in Council of the 30th day of March, 1871, should be modified and amended so as to admit of domicile in or service in ships registered in any of the following Australian colonies, viz., the colonies on the continent of Australia, and New Zealand and Tasmania, forming part of the three years' domicile required under the said condition or regulation: And whereas it has been made to appear to her Majesty that such modification and amendment are expedient, and that the said recited Order in Council should be revoked and a new Order in Council, modified and amended in manner aforesaid, substituted in lieu thereof: Nor, therefore, her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of her Privy Council, doth hereby direct that from and after the 1st day of April, 1876, the said recited Order in Council of the 30th day of March, 1871, shall be and the same is hereby revoked; provided, however, that the Certificates revocation of the said Order in Council shall not affect or invalidate any of competency colonial certificate of competency granted thereunder prior to the said (Victoria). 1st day of April, 1876, and subsisting at that date. And her Majesty is further pleased, 1. To declare that the said colonial certificates of competency granted by the Steam Navigation Board of Victoria, appointed by the government of the said possession of Victoria, shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under the said acts. [The remainder of this Order, except the concluding paragraph thereof, is, mutatis mutandis, the same as the corresponding portion of the Order relating to the grant of colonial certificates of competency by the marine board of New South Wales, supra, p. 6.] This Order shall take effect in the said possession of Victoria from and after the 1st day of April, 1876, and shall apply not only to colonial certificates of competency granted under this Order, but to such as shall have been granted under the Order hereby revoked and be subsisting at the above date. ORDER IN COUNCIL relating to the Tensile and Breaking Strain to which At the Court at Windsor, the 12th day of May, 1874: Chain Cables. WHEREAS it is provided by "The Chain Cable and Anchor Act, 1871," as follows, viz., "It shall be lawful for her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to alter the tensile strain or the breaking strain to which, under the principal act and this act, chain cables and anchors are to be subjected by the tester, and to revoke or alter any such Order previously made; and that before any such alteration is made the Board of Trade shall give six months' notice thereof by advertisement in the Gazette, or in any such other way as they may think best for making the same known to the parties interested:" And whereas it is expedient to alter the said tensile strain and the said breaking strain by substituting for the tensile and breaking strains mentioned in the said act the tensile and breaking strains contained in the schedule annexed to this Order: And whereas notice of such alteration was advertised in the "London Gazette" of the 5th day of September, 1873: Now, therefore, in exercise of the provisions of the above-recited act, her Majesty is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to direct that the schedule set forth at the foot hereof shall be substituted for the second schedule to the above-recited act. (a) See the 34 & 35 Vict. c. 101, s. 6, now repealed, and the 37 & 38 Vict. c. 51, s. 6. The Board of Trade have, under the provisions of the lastmentioned section, approved of the [Schedule. tests set forth in the schedule to this Order as tests equal or superior to the tests required under the 34 & 35 Vict. c. 101. See "Forms," No. 44 (III.), supra. ORDERS IN COUNCIL, approving Tables of Fees to be charged by British At the Court at Buckingham Palace the 1st day of May, 1855: Present,―The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by the 4th section of the act of the sixth year of the reign of King George IV. c. 87, intituled "An Act," &c., it is, amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for all consul generals and consuls appointed by his Majesty, and resident within the dominions of any sovereign, or any foreign state or power in amity with his Majesty, to accept, take and receive the several fees particularly mentioned in the tables to this said act annexed, marked with the letters (A.) and (B.), for and in respect or on account of the several matters and things, and official acts and deeds particularly mentioned in the said schedules; and that it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by any Order or Orders to be by him made, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, from time to time as occasion may require, to increase or diminish, or wholly to abolish, all or any of the fees aforesaid, and to establish and authorize the payment of any greater or smaller or new or additional fees or fee, for or in respect of the several matters and things mentioned in the said schedules or any of them, or for or in respect of any other matters or things or matter or thing to be by any such consul general or consul done or performed in the execution of such his office: And whereas by an Order in Council made on the 14th day of April, 1851, it was ordered that "whenever a British consul general, consul, or vice-consul should be called upon by masters of merchant ships to give his sanction in writing as to the shipment or discharge of seamen, or his certificate as to the desertion of seamen, it should be lawful for such consul general, consul or vice-consul to demand, recover and receive from all masters or other chief officers or commanders of any ship or vessel belonging to any of her Majesty's subjects the sum of two shillings for each seaman whose shipment or discharge should have been so sanctioned, or whose discharge shall have been so certified; and that it should not be lawful for such consul general, consul or vice-consul to levy a larger fee for such service:" And whereas it is expedient to abolish the fees mentioned in the tables to such act annexed, and in the said Order in Council of the said 14th day of April, 1851, and to establish and authorize the payment of other fees in lieu thereof: Now therefore, in pursuance of the said act, and in exercise of the powers of her Majesty in Council, in that behalf vested by the said act, it is hereby ordered by her Majesty, that the said fees mentioned in the said tables to the said act annexed, and in the said Order of Council of the said 14th day of April, 1851, shall be abolished, and that the several fees mentioned in the tables hereunto annexed, for the several matters mentioned therein, shall be substituted for the fees so abolished, and shall and may be taken accordingly, subject to the directions and restrictions contained in the notes appended to the said table. And the right honorable the Earl of Clarendon, one of her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, is to give the necessary directions accordingly. (a) See post, pp. 17, 19. As to the fees to be charged in consular courts, see an Order in Council of the 26th of October, 1875. Consular General. [Table of Fees |