Port of

C. 25.-See paragraph 97.

I hereby certify the above account to be correct.

H. B. M. Consul.

C. 26.- See paragraphs 61, 62, and 163.

PORT Ot

HER MAJESTY'S CONSUL (here insert name of Consul) for the Dr.

in Account Curront with the BOARD OF TRADE. 185

Payments.

Total in sterling

£

I hereby certify, That the above account is just and true, according to the best of my knowledge and belief.

of the same tenor and date not paid), please

to pay to my order, on the back hereof, the sum of

pounds

shillings and

pence,

according to the rate of exchange above stated, being for the Balance due to me as per account current for the Quarter ending

We do hereby certify, That at the date of drawing this Bill, the course of exchange for Bills on the British Government at three days' sight was at the rate of

Signatures of two resident Merchants at

C. 28. See paragraph 160.

FORM OF SECURITY FOR SALVAGE BY PERSONS RESIDING IN
FOREIGN PORTS.

Whereas a Salvage Bond, made under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, has been executed in the following terms [here copy Salvage Bond]; and whereas the owners of the said Ship and Cargo reside at

out of her Majesty's dominions; and whereas the

The Drawer, besides signing his name at the foot of the above Bill, must write at the back of this Bill the Christian and surname of the payee (that is, the person with whom he negotiates it), and also affix his own signature to the endorsement.

said ship and cargo cannot be released by virtue of the provisions contained in the said Act without additional security, approved by H.B.M.'s Consul for the port of ; and whereas the said Consul

has approved the security herein-after given, as is testified by his endorsement hereon: we, the said A. B. and C. D. hereby, for ourselves, our respective executors, administrators, and assigns, agree with the said his executors, administrators, and assigns, that in consideration of the said Ship and Cargo being released by the said , we, the said do hereby guarantee payment of the sum for which the within-written Bond is given in manner therein mentioned: in witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this

day of

I hereby attest, That I have approved the above security, and that it has been executed by the above-named A. B. and C. D. in my presence, this

day of (Signed)

18

H. B. M. Consul.

C. 29. See paragraphs 151, 163, 173.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 1st day of

May, 1855.
PRESENT:

The Queen's most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by the fourth section of the Act of the sixth year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, chapter eighty-seven, intituled "An Act to regulate the Payment of Salaries and Allowances to "British Consuls at Foreign Ports, and the Disbursements at such "Ports for certain public Purposes;" it is amongst other things enacted "That it shall and may be lawful for all Consuls-General 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

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"mentioned in the Tables to this said Act annexed, 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 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 Com"manders 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 desertion "should 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 "this service."

And whereas it is expedient to abolish the fees mentioned in the Tables to the said Act annexed and in the said Order in Council of the 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 execution of the powers in Her Majesty in Council in that behalf vested by the said Act, it is hereby ordered by Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, that the several fees mentioned in the Tables to the said Act annexed and in the said Order in Council of the 14th day of April, 1851, shall be abolished; and that the several fees mentioned in the Table 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 Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

Wm. L. Bathurst.