Proviso to save special cases. Art. 19. In obeying and construing these rules, due regard must be had to all dangers of navigation; and due regard must also be had to any special circumstances which may exist in any par ticular case rendering a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger. No Ship, under any circumstances, to neglect proper precautions. Art. 20. Nothing in these Rules shall exonerate any ship, or the owner, or master, or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper look-out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of January, 1863. The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order that whereas the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond has placed a new light vessel near the west end of the Scarweather Sand, in the Bristol Channel, there shall be paid, in respect of the said light vessel, for every vessel, whether British or foreign, which, pursuant to the consolidated tables of light duties sanctioned by an Order in Council, dated the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, shall become liable to the charge for the Nash Lights, in the case of an oversea voyage, the toll of four sixteenths of a penny per ton of the burthen of every such vessel, and in the case of a coasting voyage, the toll of one sixteenth of a penny per ton of the burthen of every such vessel; and that the said tolls in respect of the said light vessel shall be levied by the corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, subject to the gross abatement or discount of sixty per cent., mentioned in an Order in Council made under the authority of the said recited Act, and dated the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone, and subject also to the regulations and exemptions contained in the said consolidated tables of light duties sanctioned by the said Order in Council, dated the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and to the further exemption sanctioned by an Order in Council, dated the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of January, 1863. PRESENT, The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by "The Passengers Act, 1855," it is amongst other things enacted, that before any passenger ship shall be cleared out, the emigration officer at the port of clearance shall satisfy himself that there is on board a sufficient quantity of pure water, carried in tanks or casks, to secure throughout the intended voyage the issue of three quarts daily to each statute adult, for the use of the passengers, exclusive of the quantity required for cooking. And whereas it is also enacted, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order in Council, to prescribe such rules and regulations as to Her Majesty may seem fit, for permitting the use on board passenger ships of an apparatus for distilling water, and for defining, in such case, the quantity of fresh water to be carried in tanks or casks for the passengers, and such Order in Council from time to time to alter, amend, and revoke, as occasion may require. And whereas Her Majesty, by Orders in Council, dated, respectively, the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and the thirteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, prescribed certain rules for permitting the use on board passenger ships propelled by steam engines of a certain power, passenger ships propelled by sails, of a certain apparatus for distilling fresh water from and on board salt water. Order in Council that relates to passenger ships And whereas it is expedient to repeal the said propelled by sails, and to issue in lieu thereof the Order hereinafter contained. the advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance Now, therefore, Her Majesty doth, by, and with and in exercise of the authority vested in Her by the said "Passengers Act, 1855," hereby repeal the said Order in Council of the thirteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and order as follows: by steam engines of less power than is sufficient, Any passenger ship propelled by sails only, or without the aid of sails, to propel the ship at the rate of five statute miles an hour may be cleared out and proceed on her voyage, having on board, in tanks or casks, only half the quantity of pure the use of the passengers, provided the following water required by the said Act to be carried for conditions be observed that is to say: 1. That there be on board such ship an efficient apparatus for distilling fresh water from salt water, of the description commonly known either as Normandy's Patent or Winchester and Graveley's Patent. 2. That the owners, charterers, or master of such ship, before clearance, lodge with such emigration officer a certificate from the engineer or surveyor of the Board of Trade, or from some other competent person to be named by such emigration officer, declaring that within seven days immediately preceding the date of such certificate, the apparatus has been examined by him and is then in good working condition, and stating the number of imperial gallons of pure fresh water which it is capable of producing in every twenty-four hours, and further, declaring that the apparatus on board is either Normandy's or Winchester and Graveley's Patent, as the case may be. 3. That in every case such emigration officer shall be satisfied that the number of gallons of pure water which the apparatus is so certified to be capable of producing, is not less than the whole number of persons about to proceed on the intended voyage of such ship, that is to say, the whole number of cabin-passengers, passengers, and crew. 4. That there is rated on the ship's articles, and that there is on board the ship, some person or persons who, to the satisfaction of the said emigration officer, shall be competent for the proper management and repair of such distilling apparatus. And, to prevent all doubts on the construction of this Order in Council, it is hereby further ordered, that the terms "passenger ship," "emigration officer," "statute adult," and "master," shall herein have the same significations as are assigned to them respectively in the said "Passengers Act, 1855." And the Most Noble the Duke of Newcastle, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. Edmund Harrison. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of January, 1863. The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the representation duly prepared (as set forth in this Gazette) by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England As to the assignment of a consolidated chapelry to the consecrated church of Saint Matthew, situate at Leavenheath, in the parish of Stoke by Nayland, in the county of Suffolk, and in he diocese of Ely, to be named "The Consolidated Chapelry of Saint Matthew, Leavenheath." At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of January, 1863. The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve and ratify the scheme duly prepared (as set forth in this Gazette) by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England For constituting a separate district for spiritual purposes out of the parish of Over, in the county of Chester, and in the diocese of Chester, and out of the parish of Whitegate, in the same county and diocese, to be named "The District of Saint John the Evangelist, Over." Also a representation as to the assignment of a consolidated chapelry to the consecrated church of Saint Peter, situate at Aldborough Hatch, in the new parish of Trinity, Barkingside, in the county |