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     for the protection of the revenues of Customs and Excise. 
     
     or of the laws of trade and navigation." I 
     
    

    
     And it is, in and by the said Act, further enacted, “ That , 
     
     if any person in any part of the United Kingdom of Great 
     
     Britain and Ireland, or in any part of His Majesty‘s domi- 
     
     nions beyond the seas, without the leave and licence of His 
     
     Majesty for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, 
     
     shall, by adding to the number of the guns of such vessel, 
     
     or changing those on board for other guns, or by the addi— 
     
     tion of any equipment for war, increase or augment, or pro- 
     
     cure 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 cruizcr, 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 Potcntate, or of any person or persons 
     
     exercising, or assuming to exercise, any powers of govern- 
     
     ment in or over any colony. province , or part 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 control 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 misdemeanour, and shall, upon 
     
     being convicted thereof, upon any information or indictment, 
     
     be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at 
     
     the discretion of the Court before which such offender shall 
     
     be convicted.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Now, in order that none of Our subjects may unwarily 
     
     render themselves liable to the penalties imposed by the said 
     
     Statute, \Ve do hereby strictly command that no per- 
     
     son 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 
     
     rotection, to observe towards each and all of the aforesaid 
     
     Sovereigns and States, their subjects and territories, and to- 
     
     wards all belligercnts 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 Predeccssors 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 Sove- 
     
     reign, in a war between other Sovereigns and States, or in 
     
     violation or contravention of the law of nations in that be- 
     
     half, as morc especially by breaking or endeavoring to break 
     
     any blockade lawfully and actually established by or on 
     
     behalf of any or either of the said Sovereigns and States, by 
     
     carrying officers, soldiers, despatches, arms, ammunition, 
     
     military stores or materials, or any article or articles con- 
     
     sidered 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 and States, that all 
     
     persons so offending, together with their ships and goods, 
     
     will rightfully, incur, and be justly liable to, hostile cap- 
     
     ture, 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 displea- 
     
     sure by such misconduct. 
     
    

    
     Given at Our Court at H’imlsor, this twenty-seventh 
     
     day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand 
     
     eight hundred and sixty-six, and in the thirtieth 
     
     year of Our reign. 
     
    
   
   
    
     GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A PROCLARIATION 
     
     BY uis EXCELLENCY 
     
     GEORGE DUNDAS, Esq., 
     
    

    
     Lieut. Gorcrnor and (‘unumnuler-in-Chief in and our 
     
     Her Majesty‘s Islam] Prince Edward, and Zlu.‘ 
     
     Territories (hereunto belonging, Chancellor, Vice 
     
     Admiral and Ordinary oft/u: same, 4-6. d-c, (51'. 
     
    

    
     L. S. 
     
    

    
     GEO. Dcxms, Lieut. Governor. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WHEREAS Her Majesty being fully determined to ob- 
     
    

    
     serve the duties of neutrality during the exhsting 
     
     hostilities betwen the Emperor of Austria, the King  
     
     Prussia, the King of Italy, and the German Confederation. 
     
     and being moreover resolved to prevent, as far as possible 
     
     the use of Iler Majesty’s harbors, ports, and coasts, and the 
     
     waters Within Her Majesty’s territorial jurisdiction, in aid 
     
     of the warlike purposes of either belligerent, has command- 
     
     ed Her Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies to com- 
     
     municate to me for my guidance, the following rules, which 
     
     are to be treated and enforced as Her Majesty’s orders and 
     
     directions. 
     
    

    
     And whereas Her Majesty has been pleased further to 
     
     command that these rules should be put in force in the 
     
     United Kingdom and in the Channel Islands on and alter the 
     
     fourth day of July, and in Her Majesty’s territories and 
     
     possessions beyond the seas six days after the day when the 
     
     Governor or other chief authority of each of such territories 
     
     or possessions respectively shall have notified and published 
     
     the same; stating in such notification that the said rules 
     
     are to be obeyed by all persons within the same territories 
     
     and possessions. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Now I do hereby notify and publish that it is Iler Ma- 
     
    
   
   
    
     jesty’s pleasure that during the continuance of the present 
     
    
   
   
    
     hostilities all ships of war of either belligerent are prohibited 
     
     from making use of any port or roadstead in the United King- 
     
     dom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Channel Islands, 
     
     or in any of Her Majesty’s Colonies or foreign possessions or 
     
     dependencies, or of any waters subject to the territorial 
     
     jurisdiction of the British Crown, as a station~ or place of 
     
     resort for any warlike purpose, or for the purpose of obtain~ 
     
     ing any facilities of warlike equipment ; and no ship of war 
     
     of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted to sail out 
     
     of or leave any port, roadstead, or waters subject to British 
     
     jurisdiction, from which any vessel of the other belligerent 
     
     (whether the same shall be a ship of war or a merchant- 
     
     ship) shall have previously departed, until after the expira- 
     
     tion of at least twenty-four hours from the departure of such 
     
     last-mentioned. vessel beyond the territorial jurisdiction of 
     
     Her Majesty. 
     
    
   
   
    
     And that it is further Her Majesty’s pleasure that if any 
     
     ship of war of either belligerent shall, after the time when 
     
     this Order shall be first notified and put in force in the 
     
     United Kingdom and in the Channel Islands, and in the 
     
     several Colonies and foreign possessions and dependencies of 
     
     Her Majesty respectively, enter any port, roadstead, or 
     
     waters belonging to Her Majesty, either in the United King 
     
     dom or in the Channel Islands, or in any of Her Majestle 
     
     Colonies or foreign possessions or dependencies. such vessel 
     
     shall he required to depart and to put to sea within twenty- 
     
     four hours after her entrance into such port, roadstead, or 
     
     waters, except in case of stress of weather. or of her requir- 
     
     ing provisions or things necessary for the subsistence of her 
     
     crew, or repairs; in either of which cases the authorities of 
     
     the port or of the nearest port (as the case may he) shall 
     
     require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expira- 
     
     tion of such period of twenty-four hours. without permitting 
     
     her to take in supplies, beyond what may be necessary for 
     
     her immediate use ; and’ no such vessel which may have 
     
     been allowed to remain within British waters for the pur- 
     
     pose of repair shall continue in any such port, roadstead, or 
     
     waters, for a longer period than twenty-four hours after her 
     
     necessary repairs shall have been completed. Provided, 
     
     nevertheless, that in all cases in which there shall be any 
     
     Vessels (whether ships-ot-war or merchant-ships), of the solid.