are to be deemed exempted mail-ships within the meaning of the Act. 13. As soon as may be after security is given in accordance with an order of the Court, the owner shall lodge in the Admiralty Registry a list of the ships actually engaged in the postal service, in respect of which the security has been given, mentioning the tonnage and port of registry of each ship, and shall also from time to time, as often as any ships are added or substituted for the purposes of that postal service, lodge in the Admiralty Registry a corrected list as aforesaid. A copy of every such list shall be transmitted to the Board of Trade for publication. 14. If notwithstanding its exemption any exempted mail-ship is arrested in the United Kingdom, the Board of Trade on being informed by the owner of such arrest and of the arresting authority, and on being satisfied that the ship is an exempted mail-ship, shall forthwith send a special notice to the arresting authority informing him that the ship is an exempted mail-ship, and as such entitled to release. Applications to make Security sufficient, or to vary and withdraw. 15. Every application to the Court by the Board of Trade to require that any security shall be made sufficient, shall recite or describe the previous orders of the Court (if any) relating to the security, and shall also state the nature and amount of the security for the time being under the control of the Court, and the names and tonnage of the ships to which the security for the time being applies, and the causes, whether pending claims, variation of the conditions of the service or otherwise, whereby it appears to the Board of Trade that the security has become insufficient, and such application shall be accompanied by such evidence (if any) on affidavit or otherwise as may be necessary in support of any statements made therein which are not within the cognizance of the Board of Trade. 16. An application by an owner to vary or withdraw any security shall recite or describe the previous orders of the Court relating to the security, and the nature and amount of the security for the time being, and in case of an application to vary shall state the grounds. upon which and the mode in which the owner desires the security to be varied. Every application to vary shall be accompanied by such evidence on affidavit or otherwise as may be necessary in support of the application. 17. An order of the Court for the withdrawal of security shall, in the first instance, be provisional, but the Court may, subject to these Rules, make the order absolute on the application of the owner. 18. When a provisional order has been made for the withdrawal of security, the Admiralty Registrar shall give notice thereof to the Board of Trade, and thereupon the Board of Trade shal publish notices to all arresting authorities, in like manner as herein before provided, reeiting such order and notifying that, after the day named in the notice (such day not being earlier than a reasonable time after the publication of the notice), the Court may, on the application of the owner, make the order absolute, unless it appears to the Court that any pending claims exist for the purposes of which the security is required. Cesser of Exemption. 19. Where on the application of the Board of Trade an order is made that any security shall be made sufficient within a time fixed, and default is made therein, or where an order for the withdrawa of any security is made absolute, the Admiralty Registrar shall forthwith notify the Board of Trade of such default or order absolute, as the case may be, and the Board of Trade shall thereupon publish a notice to the effect that the mail-ships in respect of which such default is made or such order is made absolute have since the date of the default or order absolute, as the case may be. ceased to be exempted mail-ships. 20. Without prejudice to any other mode of proof, a notice published by the Board of Trade containing the names of the exempted mail-ships of any owner, or until such notice is published a like notice declaring that all ships of the owner engaged in the postal service to which any security applies are exempted mail-ships. shall be evidence of the exemption of any mail-ship named in suct notice or proved to have been at the date of an arrest actually engaged in the said postal service, but such evidence may be rebutted by any subsequently published notice by the Board of Trade containing a corrected list of the exempted mail-ships of that owner, or declaring that the ships of that owner have ceased to be exempted mail-ships, or by proof that the number and tonnage of the ships for the time being engaged in the postal service in respect of which the security was given exceeds the number and tonnage of the ships to which the security applies. Procedure in case of Actions against Exempted Mail-ships. 21. An action may be commenced in the High Court against the owners of an exempted mail-ship in the like cases and by a bike writ of summons as an Admiralty action in rem. 22. Every order of the Court directing any security consisting of cash or Government securities to be applied shall be forthwith notified by the Admiralty Registrar to the PaymasterGeneral. 23. In making orders for the application of the security, the Court may, so far as circumstances permit, give the like directions s to priorities as the Court could give in the case of proceeds of roperty under the control of the Court. Publication of Notices by Board of Trade. 24. Where any notice respecting any exempted mail-ship or any ecurity is by these Rules required to be published, the Board f Trade shall forthwith publish the same in the "London Gazette," nd also, if the case so requires, in the Edinburgh or Dublin Gazette," and where the exemption or security affects any British ossession, the Board of Trade shall also forthwith send a copy f such notice to a Secretary of State for publication in that ossession, and every notice so published shall be deemed to be otice to all arresting authorities in each part of the United Kingdom, and in such British possession respectively. 25. The Forms in the Schedule, with such variations as circumtances may require, shall be used in proceedings under the Act. The 27th day of February, 1892. SCHEDULE. No. 1. Form of Application to fix Security. In the High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division. In the matter of "The Mail-Ships Act, 1891," and in the matter of the I, 4. B., being the owner (or, on behalf of C. D. and others, or of the Company, the owners] of certain ships, do hereby apply to this honourable Court to fix the security to be given by me under the provisions of the said Act, as follows: 1. I am [or the said C. D. and others, or, &c., are] subsidized for the execution of a postal service within the meaning of the Convention mentioned in the said Order in Council, being a Convention to which the said Act applies, that is to say, for the carrying of mails between, &c. [or as the case may be, stating shortly the nature of the postal service, and the names of the ports or places, &c.]. 2. The subsidy in respect of the said service is received from the Govern ment of the United Kingdom [or the foreign State to which the Conventios applies]. 3. The ships engaged in the said service are British [or, &c.] ships. 4. The following are the particulars of the ships engaged in the service:(a.) Maximum number, (b.) Aggregate tonnage of maximum number, (c.) Number simultaneously engaged, (d.) Aggregate tonnage of such number, (e) Tonnage of largest ship. 5. The security proposed to be given is as follows:-A bond for the sun. guaranteed by, &c. [state nature and amount of guarantee”. 6. The following documents are filed with this application, viz.:-Loire of documents]. Filed this day of Form of Application by Board of Trade. In the High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division. In the matter of "The Mail-Ships Act, 1891," and in the matter d the I, E. F., an Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trade, do hereby, on be of the said Board, apply to this honourable Court, pursuant to the said Act, fr an order requiring that the security given by [name of owner] shall be r sufficient, and say as follows:— 1. By an order made, &c., this Court fixed the security to be given by the said owner, namely [state nature and amount]. [1A. State any previous orders of the Court requiring security to be ma sufficient.] 2. The security now under the control of the Court consists of, &c. 3. The names and tonnage of the ships to which the said security for " time being applies are, &c. 4. The said security now under the control of the Court appears to t Board of Trade to be insufficient, for the following reasons, viz., &c. 5. I append to this application the following affidavits, &c. Filed this day of 189 E. F., Assistant Secretary to the Board of Tr No. 3. Form of Application to vary or withdraw Security. In the High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division. In the matter of "The Mail-Ships Act, 1891," and in the mate the Order in Council, 189 I, 4. B. [or, &c.], being the owner of certain ships in respect of wh security has been given under the provisions of the said Act, do hereby app.11. this honourable Court as follows: 1. By an order made, &c., this Court fixed the security to be given by the -aid owner, namely [state nature and amount]. [1A. State any previous orders of the Court requiring security to be made sufficient.] 2. The security now under the control of the Court consists of, &c. 3. The names and tonnage of the ships to which the said security for the time being applies are, &c. 4. I hereby apply to the Court for an order that the security now under the control of the Court may be varied for the following reasons, &c. [or to be withdrawn]. 5. I desire that the said security may be varied in manner following, &c. 6. I append to this application the following affidavits, &c. No. 4. Notice to the Board of Trade. In the High Court of Justice, of Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division. In the matter of "The Mail-Ships Act, 1891,” and in the matter of hereby give notice that an application under the said Act was on the day 189, filed in the Admiralty Registry, for an order fixing the nature and amount of the security to be given [or varying or withdrawing the security given, or requiring the security given by A. B. to be made sufficient] in respect of ships engaged in the postal service mentioned in the said appli cation, and that the Court bas appointed the for the hearing thereof. day of next A. B. [or G. H., solicitor for the above-named 4. B.]. No. 5. Form of Bond by Owner. Be it known that I [obligor] of, &c., am bound and do hereby bind myself anto Sir Charles Parker Butt, President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice, in the sum of £ to be paid to the said Sir Charles Parker Butt, or to the President of the said Division for the time being. on the Whereas the said A. B. has applied to the High Court under the provisions of "The Mail-Ships Act, 1891," to fix the security to be given by him in respect of certain ships engaged in, &c. [describe postal service], and the said Court has day of 189 made an order upon such application; And whereas on such security being given the said ships will be exempted mailships and not liable to be arrested or detained by any arresting authority either in the United Kingdom or in any British possession to which the security applies, either for the purposes of founding jurisdiction in any Court of |