THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 571

CIRCULAR.

Downing Street, 4th August, 1870.

SIR,—I have the honor to state to you, for your
information and guidance, that Her Majesty's Go-
vernment, having regard to the existing state of war
between France and Prussia, are of opinion that the
following instructions should be at once issued to
the Pilots in the Colony under your Government:
"British Pilots are not to pilot ships of war of
either belligerent, except in British waters, within
three miles of the shore, or to do more than pilot
such ships into or out of British ports or roadsteads
when they are not at the time engaged in any hostile
operations; but ships of war in distress may always
be piloted out of immediate danger."

I have accordingly to request that you will imme-
diately take the necessary steps for making these
instructions public.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

CIRCULAR.

Downing Street, 10th August, 1870.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit to you, for your
information and guidance, copies of the Foreign
Enlistment Act, which has been passed by Her
Majesty's Government with the object of providing
for the preservation of neutrality during the existence
of hostilities between Foreign States with which Her
Majesty is at peace.

I have to instruct you to give the widest publicity
in the Colony under your Government to the pro-
visions of this important Act.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

CHAP. 90.

An Act to regulate the Conduct of Her Majesty's
Subjects during the existence of Hostilities between
Foreign States with which Her Majesty is at Peace.
[9th August, 1870.

WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the
regulation of the conduct of Her Majesty's subjects
during the existence of hostilities between Foreign
States with which Her Majesty is at peace:

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Ma-
jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:—

Preliminary.
Short Title of Act.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The
   Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870."

Application of Act.

2. This Act shall extend to all the dominions of
   Her Majesty, including the adjacent territorial
   waters.

Commencement of Act.

3. This Act shall come into operation in the United
   Kingdom immediately on the passing thereof, and
   shall be proclaimed in every British possession by
   the Governor thereof as soon as may be after he
   receives notice of this Act, and shall come into
   operation in that British possession on the day of
   such proclamation; and the time at which this Act
   comes into operation in any place is, as respects
   such place, in this Act referred to as the commence-
   ment of this Act.

Illegal Enlistment.

Penalty on enlistment in service of foreign State.

4. If any person, without the license of Her
   Majesty, being a British subject, within or without
   Her Majesty's dominions, accepts or agrees to accept
   any commission or engagement in the military or
   naval service of any foreign State at war with any
   foreign State at peace with Her Majesty, and in
   this Act referred to as a friendly State, or whether a
   British subject or not, within Her Majesty's do-
   minions, induces any other person to accept or agree
   to accept any commission or engagement in the
   military or naval service of any such foreign State
   as aforesaid, —

He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act,
and shall be punishable by fine and imprison-
ment, or either of such punishments, at the
discretion of the Court before which the
offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if
awarded, may be either with or without hard
labour.

Penalty on leaving Her Majesty's dominions with intent to
serve a foreign State.

5. If any person, without the license of Her
   Majesty, being a British subject, quits or goes on
   board any ship with a view of quitting Her Majesty's
   dominions, with intent to accept any commission or
   engagement in the military or naval service of any
   foreign State at war with a friendly State, or whether
   a British subject or not, within Her Majesty's
   dominions, induces any other person to quit or to go
   on board any ship with a view of quitting Her
   Majesty's dominions with the like intent, —

He shall be guilty of an offence against this
Act, and shall be punishable by fine and im-
prisonment, or either of such punishments,
at the discretion of the Court before which
the offender is convicted; and imprisonment,
if awarded, may be either with or without
hard labour.

Penalty on embarking persons under false representations as to
service.

6. If any person induces any other person to quit
   Her Majesty's dominions or to embark on any ship
   within Her Majesty's dominions under a misrepre-
   sentation or false representation of the service in
   which such person is to be engaged, with the intent
   or in order that such person may accept or agree to
   accept any commission or engagement in the military
   or naval service of any foreign State at war with a
   friendly State, —

He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act,
and shall be punishable by fine and imprison-
ment, or either of such punishments, at the
discretion of the Court before which the
offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if
awarded, may be either with or without hard
labour.

Penalty on taking illegally enlisted persons on board ship.

7. If the master or owner of any ship, without the
   license of Her Majesty, knowingly either takes on
   board, or engages to take on board, or has on board
   such ship, within Her Majesty's dominions, any of
   the following persons, in this Act referred to as
   illegally enlisted persons; that is to say, —

(1.) Any person who, being a British subject
within or without the dominions of Her
Majesty, has, without the license of Her
Majesty, accepted or agreed to accept any
commission or engagement in the military or
naval service of any foreign State at war with
any friendly State:

(2.) Any person, being a British subject, who,
without the license of Her Majesty, is about
to quit Her Majesty's dominions with intent