JULY 8.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

975

(A.) Agreement; (C.) Convention; (D.) Declaration; (N.) Notification;
(P.) Protocol; (T.) Treaty.

Q1027. 250.-4-80. Wt. 1030. E. & S.

Downing Street, 22nd April, 1880.

SIR, —I have the honor to transmit to you, for publi-
cation in the colony under your Government, a copy
of an agreement between the Governments of Great
Britain and Germany, for the mutual surrender of
merchant seamen deserters, together with a copy of
the order of the Queen in Council of the 18th of
March giving effect to the agreement.

I have, &c.,
M. E. HICKS BEACH.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

At the Court at Windsor, the eighteenth day of
March, 1880.
Present:

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by "The Foreign Deserters Act, 1852," it
is provided that, whenever it is made to appear to Her
Majesty that due facilities are or will be given for
recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from
British merchant ships in the territories of any
foreign Power, Her Majesty may, by Order in
Council stating that such facilities are or will be
given, declare that seamen, not being slaves, who
desert from merchant ships belonging to a subject of
such Power when within Her Majesty's dominions,
shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on
board their respective ships, and may limit the
operation of such order, and may render the opera-
tion thereof subject to such conditions and qualifica-
tions, if any, as may be deemed expedient:

And whereas it hath been made to appear to Her
Majesty that due facilities for recovering and appre-
hending seamen (not being German subjects) who
desert from British merchant ships in the territories
belonging to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of
Germany, will be given under an agreement between
the Governments of Great Britian and Germany,
signed at London on the 5th November, 1879:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the
powers vested in her by the said "Foreign Deserters
Act, 1852," and by and with the advice of Her Privy
Council, is pleased to order and declare, and it is
hereby ordered and declared, that, from and after the
publication hereof in the London Gazette, seamen,
not being slaves (and not being British subjects),
who desert from merchant ships belonging to subjects
of the Emperor of Germany within Her Majesty's
dominions, shall be liable to be apprehended and
carried on board their respective ships; provided
always that, if any such deserter has committed
any crime in Her Majesty's dominions, he may be
detained until he has been tried by a competent
Court, and until his sentence, if any, has been fully
carried into effect.

And Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested
in her by the said "Foreign Deserters Act, 1852,"
and by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is
further pleased to order and declare that, upon and
after the publication hereof in the London Gazette, the
Order in Council made, by virtue of the said Act, on
the 16th day of October, 1852, and published in the
London Gazette on the 26th day of October, 1852, so
far as it relates to seamen who desert from merchant
ships belonging to citizens of the Free Hanseatic
Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg, and
the Order in Council relating to seamen who
desert from the merchant ships belonging to
subjects of the King of Prussia, made by virtue of
the said Act, on the 16th day of October, 1852, and
published in the London Gazette on the 26th day of
October, 1852, and the Order in Council relating to
seamen who desert from the merchant ships belonging
to subjects of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, made,
by virtue of the said Act, on the 13th day of June,
1853, and published in the London Gazette on the
14th day of June, 1853, and the Order in Council
relating to seamen who desert from the merchant
ships belonging to subjects of the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, made, by virtue of the said
Act, on the 9th day of March, 1854, and published in
the London Gazette on the 10th day of March, 1854,
and the Order in Council relating to seamen who
desert from the merchant ships belonging to subjects
of the King of Hanover, made, by virtue of the said
Act, on the 8th day of June, 1854, and published in
the London Gazette on the 13th day of June, 1854,
shall be revoked, and the same are hereby revoked
accordingly.

And the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and
the Secretary of State for India in Council, are to
give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

AGREEMENT between the Governments of Great
Britain and Germany relative to Merchant Sea-
men Deserters.—Signed at London, November 5,
1879.

THE Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and
the Government of His Majesty the German Em-
peror, King of Prussia, being desirous, for the benefit
of the commerce of the two countries, to facilitate
the discovery, apprehension, and surrender of seamen
who may desert from merchant vessels of either
country, on the basis of a full and entire reciprocity,
have agreed as follows: —