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to accept the decoration of a higher Class of
the same Order, to which he may have be-
come eligible by increase of rank in the
Foreign Service, or in the Service of his own
country; or any other distinctive mark of
honour strictly consequent upon the ac-
ceptance of the original Order, and common
to every person upon whom such Order is
conferred.

liarities between the sexes, and all drunken-
ness and acts of uncleanness.

The only other material alteration is the
provision in the 6th Article that the Emigrant
Sweepers for the day shall pump water into
tanks or cisterns for the use of the water-
closet.

10. The preceding Clause shall not be
    taken to apply to Decorations of the
    Guelphic Order which were bestowed on
    British Subjects by Her Majesty's pre-
    decessors King George IV. and King Wil-
    liam IV., on whose heads the Crowns of Great
    Britain and of Hanover were united.

It will be the duty of the Immigration
Officers in the Colony under your govern-
ment, whenever any infraction of this Order
is brought under their notice, to take the
necessary steps for putting it in force by
proceeding against the offenders before the
proper Tribunal.

Decorations so bestowed cannot properly
be considered as rewards granted by a
Foreign Sovereign for services rendered ac-
cording to the purport of Clause 2 of these
Regulations. They must be rather considered
as personal favours bestowed on British
Subjects by British Sovereigns, and as
having no reference to services rendered to
the Foreign Crown of Hanover.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.
Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.
&c. &c. &c.

Regulations respecting Foreign Medals.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of
Wight, the 7th day of January 1864;

PRESENT.

1. Applications for permission to accept
   and wear Medals which, not being the
   decoration of any Foreign Order, are con-
   ferred by a Foreign Power on British
   Subjects in the Army or in the Navy for
   Military or for Naval Services, should be
   addressed, as the case may be, to the Com-
   mander-in-Chief, the Master-General of the
   Ordnance, or the Lords of the Admiralty,
   who, if they see fit, may submit the same to
   Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
   for Foreign Affairs for Her Majesty's
   sanction; upon obtaining which, they may
   grant such permission without any other
   formality.

The Queen's most Excellent Majesty in
Council.

Whereas by the "Passengers Act, 1855,"
it is amongst other things enacted, that it
shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by an Order
in Council, to prescribe such rules and regu-
lations as to Her Majesty may seem fit for
preserving order, promoting health, and
securing cleanliness and ventilation on board
of passenger ships proceeding from the
United Kingdom to any port or place in Her
Majesty's possessions abroad, and the
said rules and regulations from time to time
in like manner to alter, amend, and revoke,
as occasion may require:

2. Permission to wear a Foreign Medal
   cannot be granted to a British Subject unless
   such Medal is bestowed for Military or
   Naval Services performed by the command
   or with the sanction of Her Majesty. But
   no permission is necessary for accepting a
   Foreign Medal, if such Medal is not to be
   worn.

And whereas it is expedient to revoke an
Order in Council made at a Court held at
Buckingham Palace on the twenty-fifth day
of February one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six, in virtue of the provisions of the
said Act, and to make a new Order in
Council:

CLARENDON.
Foreign Office, May 10, 1855.

Now therefore Her Majesty doth, by and
with the advice of her Privy Council, and
in pursuance and exercise of the authority
vested in her by the said "Passengers Act,
1855," order, and it is hereby ordered, that
the said Order in Council of the twenty-fifth
day of February one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six be and the same is hereby re-
voked; and that the following shall henceforth
be the rules for preserving order, for pro-
moting health, and for securing cleanliness
and ventilation, to be observed on board of
every passenger ship proceeding from the
United Kingdom to any port or place in Her
Majesty's possessions abroad out of Europe,
and not being within the Mediterranean
Sea.

Downing Street,
22nd January, 1864.

I enclose for your information, and for the
guidance of the Immigration Officers in the
Colony under your government, Copies of
an Order in Council, passed on the 7th
instant, for preserving order, promoting
health, and securing cleanliness and ventila-
tion on board Passenger Ships proceeding
from the United Kingdom.

1. All passengers who shall not be pre-
   vented by sickness or other sufficient
   cause, to be determined by the sur-
   geon, or in ships carrying no surgeon,
   by the master, shall rise not later than
   seven o'clock A.M., at which hour the
   fires shall be lighted.

This Order revokes the one dated 25th of
February, 1856, but re-enacts its provisions,
with some additions. The principal additions
are contained in the 20th Article, which now
includes in its prohibition all immoral or
indecent acts or conduct, all improper fami-

2. It shall be the duty of the cook or