OF THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT TOGETHER WITH TREATIES NEGOTIATED BETWEEN HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN AND FOREIGN POWERS OTTAWA PRINTED BY SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON LAW PRINTER (FOR CANADA) TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, THE 22ND DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1896. Present: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. W HEREAS by an Order in Council, dated the 23rd day of July, 1889, made by Her Majesty in the exercise of the powers conferred upon her by the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1852, Her Majesty was pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to direct as follows: 1. As regards sailing ships, that merchant sailing ships of the German Empire, the measurement whereof after the 1st day of January, 1873, has been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other national papers of such sailing ships, testified by the date thereof, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in such registers and other national papers in the same manner and to the same extent, and for the same purpose in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of British sailing ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships. 2. As regards steamships, that merchant ships belonging to the said German Empire which are propelled by steam or any other power requiring engine room, the measurement whereof shall after the said 1st day of January, 1873, have been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other national papers of such steamships, testified by the dates thereof, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted on such registers or other national papers in the same manner and to the same extent, and for the same purpose in, to, and for which the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of British ships is deemed to be the tonnage of such ships. Provided, nevertheless, that if the owner or master of any such German steamship desires the deduction for engine room in his steamship to be estimated under the rules for engine room measurement and deduction applicable to British ships instead of under the German rule, the engine room shall be measured and the deduction calculated according to British rules; and that in the event of any such steamship possessing a certificate of tonnage or other national paper issued as aforesaid on or after the 20th day of June, 1888, denoting the net registered tonnage of such ship under the British rules, the ship shall be deemed to be of the tonnage so denoted thereon. And whereas by section 84 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, it is enacted that, whenever it appears to Her Majesty the Queen in Council that the tonnage regulations of that Act have been adopted by any foreign country, and are in force there, Her Majesty in Council may order that the ships of this country shall, without being remeasured in Her Majesty's dominions, be German Shipping-Tonnage Measurement. deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship; And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty in Council that the tonnage regulations of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, have been adopted by the Government of His Majesty the German Emperor, and such regulations are now in force in the German Empire, having come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1895; And whereas there still are or may be ships belonging to the German Empire to which the hereinbefore recited Order of the 23rd July, 1889, may apply, and it is expedient not to revoke the same, but to let the said recited Order remain in force so long as there are any ships to which the same may so apply; And whereas the provisions of section one of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, have been complied with: Now, therefore, Her Majesty (in pursuance and exercise of the powers herein before mentioned) is hereby pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to direct that the merchant ships of the German Empire the measurement whereof shall, after the 1st day of July, 1895, have been ascertained and denoted in the registers and other national papers of such ships, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers in the same manner, to the same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the certificate of registry of a British ship is deemed to be the tonnage of that ship. Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXIX., p. 2023. C. L. PEEL. |