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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made
those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1854... [No. 17.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
2nd August, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government directs the publication
for general information on this the 2nd day of
August 1854 of the following order of
Her Majesty the Queen in Council.

By His Excellency's command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR.
Colonial Secretary.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM
PALACE.

The 7th day of April, 1854.
Present: The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council.

HER Majesty being compelled to declare war
against His Imperial Majesty the Emperor
of all the Russias, and being desirous to lessen as
much as possible the evils thereof, is pleased, by
and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to
order, and it is hereby ordered, that Russian mer-
chant vessels which, at the time of the publication
of this Order, shall be in any ports or places in
Her Majesty's Indian territories, under the Go-
vernment of the East India Company, or within
any of Her Majesty's foreign or colonial posses-
sions, shall be permitted to enter such ports
or places; and that such Russian merchant
vessels, if met at sea by any of Her Majesty's
ships, shall be permitted to continue their voyage
if, on examination of their papers, it shall appear
that their cargoes were taken on board before the
expiration of the above term. Provided that
nothing herein contained shall extend, or be taken
to extend, to Russian vessels having on board

any officer in the military or naval service of the
enemy, or any article prohibited or contraband of
war, or any despatch of or to the Russian Govern-
ment.

And it is hereby further ordered by Her Ma-
jesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Coun-
cil as aforesaid, that any Russian merchant vessel
which, prior to the twenty-ninth day of March
now last past, shall have sailed from any foreign
port, bound for any port or place in any of Her
Majesty's Indian territories, or foreign or colonial
possessions, shall be permitted to enter such port
or place, and to discharge her cargo, and after-
wards forthwith to depart without molestation;
and that any such vessel, if met at sea by any of
Her Majesty's ships, shall be permitted to continue
her voyage to any port not blockaded.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commis-
sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, and Her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for War and
the Colonies, the Right Honourable the Commis-
sioners for the Affairs of India, and all governors,
officers, and authorities, whom it may concern, in
Her Majesty's East Indian, foreign, and colonial
possessions, are to give the necessary directions
herein as to them may respectively appertain.

C. C. GREVILLE.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
July, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government has been pleased to di-
rect the publication of the following Des-
patches with their Enclosures, from Her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies, for general information.

By His Excellency's command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.