Tarif des droits de pilotage pour l'Escaut, en monnaie de Belgique, de Flessingue à Bath et vice versâ, de Neuzen à Anvers et vice versâ.

Tarif des droits de pilotage pour l'Escaut, en monnaie de Belgique, pour un mouvement de la rade de Flessingue à Rammekens et vice versâ, hors les cas prévus par l'Art. XXX.

ACT of the British Parliament, "to enable Her Majesty to provide for the Establishment of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, and to settle certain Annuities on Her Royal Highness."

[26 Vict. cap. 1.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

[March 5, 1863.]

WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, having taken into consideration your Majesty's most gracious message that your Majesty has agreed to a marriage proposed between His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra Carolina Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia of Denmark, do most humbly besecch your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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:

1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, in order to provide for the establishment of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her said Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to grant to his said Royal Highness, or to such persons as

Her Majesty may think fit to name in the said letters patent, in trust for his said Royal Highness, an annuity of 40,000l., to commence from the day of the marriage of his said Royal Highness with her said Royal Highness, and to continue during the joint lives of Her Majesty and his said Royal Highness, to be paid quarterly on the 5th day of January, the 5th day of April, the 5th day of July, and the 10th day of October in every year, the first payment to be made on such of the said quarterly days as next happens after the said marriage, of such portion of the said annuity as may have accrued between the date of the said marriage and the said quarterly day, and a proportionate part to be payable for the period from the last quarterly day of payment to the day of the determination of the annuity.

II. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to grant unto Her Royal Highness the said Princess Alexandra, or to such persons as Her Majesty may think fit to name in such letters patent, in trust for Her Royal Highness, for her sole and separate use, but without any power of anticipation, an annuity of 10,0007., to commence from the date of the marriage of her said Royal Highness with His Royal Highness, and to be payable during the continuance of that marriage, on the quarterly days aforesaid, the first payment to be made on such of the said quarterly days as happens next after the said marriage, of such portion of the said annuity as may have accrued between the date of such marriage and such quarterly day, and a proportionate part to be payable for the period from the last quarterly day of payment to the day of the determination thereof.

III. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to grant unto her said Royal Highness, in case of her surviving his said Royal Highness, or to such persons as Her Majesty may think fit to name in the said letters patent, in trust for her said Royal Highness, in the event of her so surviving, an annuity of 30,000l., to commence from the day of the death of his said Royal Highness, and to continue from thenceforth during the life of her said Royal Highness, and to be payable on the quarterly days aforesaid, the first payment to be made on such of the said quarterly days as happens next after the death of his said Royal Highness, of such portion of the said annuity as may have accrued between the date of the said death and the said quarterly day, and a proportionate part thereof to be payable for the period from the last quarterly day of payment to the day of the determination thereof.

IV. The annuities granted by this Act shall be charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of

Great Britain and Ireland, after paying or reserving sufficient to pay such sums as may have been directed to be paid out of the said fund by former Acts of Parliament, but with preference to all other payments which may hereafter be charged on the said fund.

ACT of the British Parliament, "to carry into effect an additional Article to the Treaty of the 7th day of April, 1862,* between Her Majesty and the United States of America, for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade."

[26 & 27 Vict. cap. 34.]

[June 29, 1863.]

WHEREAS on the 7th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, 1862, a Treaty was concluded and signed at Washington, between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America, for the suppression of the African Slave Trade: and whereas by the 1st Article of such Treaty it was stipulated and agreed that those ships of the respective navies of the two High Contracting Parties which shall be provided with special instructions for that purpose as thereinafter mentioned may visit such merchant vessels of the two nations as may, upon reasonable grounds, be suspected of being engaged in the African Slave Trade, or of having been fitted out for that purpose, or of having, during the voyage on which they are met by the said cruizers, been engaged in the African Slave Trade, contrary to the provisions of the said Treaty, and that such cruizers may detain and send or carry away such vessels in order that they may be brought to trial in the manner thereinafter agreed upon: and whereas it was by the said Article further stipulated and agreed that the reciprocal right of search and detention should be exercised only within the distance of 200 miles from the coast of Africa, and to the southward of the 32nd parallel of north latitude, and within 30 leagues from the coast of the Island of Cuba: and whereas the two High Contracting Parties have agreed that the reciprocal right of visit and detention as defined in the Article aforesaid may be exercised also within 30 leagues of the Island of Madagascar, within 30 leagues of the Island of Puerto Rico, and within 30 leagues of the Island of San Domingo: and whereas the High Contracting Parties have further agreed that the present Additional Article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted word for word in the Treaty concluded between the two High Contracting Parties of the 7th of April, 1862, and shall have the same duration as that Treaty, and that it shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London 6 months * Vol. LII. Page 50.

from this date, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the seal of their arms. Done at Washington, the 17th day of February, in the year of Our Lord 1863.

And whereas ratifications were exchanged at London on the 1st day of April, 1863: and whereas it is expedient that provision should be made for giving effect to the present Additional Article: be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, 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:

1. The reciprocal right of search and detention, as defined in the 1st Article of the said Treaty, may be exercised also within 30 leagues of the Island of Madagascar, within 30 leagues of the Island of Puerto Rico, and within 30 leagues of the Island of San Domingo.

2. The present Additional Article shall have the same force and validity as if it had been inserted in the Treaty concluded between the two High Contracting Parties on the 7th of April, 1862, and shall have the same duration as that Treaty.

3. This Act and the African Slave Trade Treaty Acts, Nos. 1 and 2, 1862, shall be read and construed as one Act.

4. This Act may for all purposes be cited as Slave Trade Treaty Act, 1863."

"The African

ACT of the British Parliament, "to define the Boundaries of the Colony of British Columbia, and to continue an Act to provide for the Government of the said Colony."

[26 & 27 Vict. cap. 83.]

[July 28, 1863.]

WHEREAS it is desirable to amend and continue an Act passed in the 21st and 22nd year of Her Majesty, chapter 99,* intituled "An Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia;" be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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:

I. The first section of the aforesaid Act is repealed.

II. The remaining sections of the said Act shall continue in force till the 31st day of December, 1863, and no longer, provided • Vol. XLIX. Page 739.