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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Kingdom or in the Channel Islands, or in any of
Her Majesty's colonies, or foreign possessions or
dependencies, such vessel shall be 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 requiring pro-
visions 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
be), shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible
after the expiration 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 purpose 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: Pro-
vided, nevertheless, that in all cases in which there
shall be any vessel (whether ships of war or merchant
ships) of the said belligerent parties in the same port,
roadstead, or waters within the territorial jurisdiction
of Her Majesty, there shall be an interval of not less
than twenty-four hours between the departure there-
from of any such vessel (whether a ship of war or
merchant ship) of the one belligerent and the
subsequent departure therefrom of any ship of war of
the other belligerent; and the time hereby limited for
the departure of such ships of war respectively shall
always, in case of necessity, be extended so far as
may be requisite for giving effect to this proviso, but
no further or otherwise.
3. No ship of war of either belligerent shall here-
after be permitted, while in any port, roadstead, or
waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of Her
Majesty, to take in any supplies, except provisions
and such other things as may be requisite for the
subsistence of her crew, and except so much coal only
as may be sufficient to carry such vessel to the
nearest port of her own country, or to some nearer
destination; and no coal shall again be supplied to
any such ship of war in the same or any other port,
roadstead, or waters subject to the territorial jurisdic-
tion of Her Majesty, without special permission, until
after the expiration of three months from the time
when such coal may have been last supplied to her
within British waters as aforesaid.
4. Armed ships of either party are interdicted from
carrying prizes made by them into the ports, harbours,
roadsteads, or waters of the United Kingdom, or any
of Her Majesty's colonies or possessions abroad.
I have, &c.,
The Right Honorable
The Earl of Kimberley.
[CIRCULAR.]
GRANVILLE.
Downing Street, 21st July, 1870.
SIR, — I transmit to you the Queen's Proclamation for
the maintenance of neutrality, which, with the advice
of Her Privy Council, Her Majesty has issued, in
consequence of the existing state of War between
France and Prussia.
I have to desire that you will immediately give the
utmost publicity to the said Proclamation.
I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.
The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.
BY THE QUEEN.
A PROCLAMATION.
Victoria R.
WHEREAS We are happily at peace with all
Sovereigns, Powers, and States:
And whereas, notwithstanding Our utmost exer-
to preserve peace between all Sovereign
Powers and States, a state of war unhappily exists
between His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the
French and His Majesty the King of Prussia, and
between their respective subjects and others inhabit-
ing within their countries, territories, or dominions:
And whereas We are on terms of friendship and
amicable intercourse with each of these Sovereigns,
and with their several subjects and others inhabiting
within their countries, territories, or dominions:
And whereas great numbers of Our loyal subjects
reside and carry on commerce, and possess property
and establishments, and enjoy various rights and
privileges, within the dominions of each of the afore-
said Sovereigns, protected by the faith of treaties
between Us and each of the aforesaid Sovereigns:
And whereas We, being desirous of preserving to
Our subjects the blessings of peace, which they now
happily enjoy, are firmly purposed and determined to
abstain altogether from taking any part, directly or
indirectly, in the war now unhappily existing between
the said Sovereigns, their subjects and territories, and
to remain at peace with and to maintain a peaceful
and friendly intercourse with each of them, and their
respective subjects, and others inhabiting within any
of their respective countries, territories, and do-
minions, and to maintain a strict and impartial
neutrality in the said state of war unhappily exist-
ing between them:

We, therefore, have thought fit, by and with the
advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal
Proclamation:

And We do hereby strictly charge and command
all Our loving subjects to govern themselves accord-
ingly, and to observe a strict neutrality in and dur-
ing the aforesaid war, and to abstain from violating
or contravening either the Laws and Statutes of the
Realm in this behalf, or the Law of Nations in rela-
tion thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at
their peril:

And whereas in and by a certain Statute made and
passed in the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty King
George the Third, intituled "An Act to prevent the
Enlisting or Engagement of His Majesty's Subjects
to serve in a Foreign Service, and the fitting out or
equipping, in His Majesty's Dominions, Vessels for
Warlike Purposes, without His Majesty's Licence,"
it is amongst other things declared and enacted as
follows:-

That if any person within any part of the United Kingdom,
or in any part of His Majesty's Dominions beyond the seas,
shall, without the leave and license of His Majesty for that
purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, equip, furnish, fit
out, or arm, or attempt or endeavour to equip, furnish, fit out,
or arm, or procure to be equipped, furnished, fitted out, or
armed, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be concerned in the
equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or
vessel, with intent or in order that such ship or vessel shall be
employed in the service of any foreign Prince, State, or Poten-
tate, or of any foreign colony, province, or part of any
province, or people, or of any person or persons exercising or
assuming to exercise any powers of Government in or over any
foreign state, colony, province, or part of any province or
people, as a transport or store ship, or with intent to cruise
or commit hostilities against any Prince, State, or Potentate,
or against the subjects or citizens of any Prince, State, or Poten-
tate, or against the persons exercising or assuming to exercise the
powers of Government in any colony, province, or part of any
province or country, or against the inhabitants of any foreign
colony, province, or part of any province or country, with
whom His Majesty shall not then be at war, or shall, within
the United Kingdom or any of His Majesty's dominions, or in
any settlement, colony, territory, island, or place belonging or
subject to His Majesty, issue or deliver any commission for
any ship or vessel, to the intent that such ship or vessel shall
be employed as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall, upon convic-
viction thereof upon any information or indictment, be
punished by fine and imprisonment or either of them, at the
discretion of the Court in which such offender shall be con-
victed; and every such ship or vessel, with the tackle, apparel,