on and after the 1st day of June, 1863, apply to French ships, whether within British jurisdiction or not:

And whereas, by several Orders in Council subsequently made, Her Majesty was pleased to direct that the Regulations appended to the said recited Order should apply to ships of the countries specified in the said Orders, whether within British jurisdiction or not:

And whereas, by Order in Council dated the 30th day of July, 1868, Her Majesty was pleased to make certain additions to the Regulations appended to the said first-recited Order in Council:

And whereas, by Order in Council dated the 14th day of August, 1879, Her Majesty, on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, was pleased to direct that, on and after the 1st day of September, 1880, the said Regulations and the additions thereto should be annulled, and that there should be substituted therefor the new Regulations contained in the First Schedule thereto, and that the same should, from and after the 1st day of September, 1880, apply to ships belonging to the following countries, that is to say:

whether within British jurisdiction or not:

And whereas, by Order in Council dated the 24th day of March, 1880, Her Majesty, on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, was pleased to direct that the operation of the Article numbered 10 of the new Regulations contained in the First Schedule of the said Order in Council of the 14th day of August, 1879, should be suspended until the 1st day of September, 1881, and that in lieu thereof, and in substitution therefor, the Article numbered 9 of the Regulations appended to the said Order in Council of the 9th day of January, 1863, should continue and remain in force until the said 1st day of September, 1881:

And whereas, by Order in Council dated the 6th day of September, 1880,† Her Majesty, on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, was pleased to direct that, from and after the 1st day of September, 1880, the said new Regulations

* See " Hertslet's Treaties," Vol. XII. Page 1113,

+ Page 275,

for preventing collisions at sea contained in the First Schedule of the said recited Order in Council of the 14th day of August, 1879, should, with the exception of the Article 10 thereof, apply to ships belonging to the following countries, that is to say:

Cochin ;

Kattyawar;

Khelat;

Kutch;

Muscat ;
Travancore; and
Zanzibar,

whether within British jurisdiction or not:

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that the Government of the several foreign countries hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:

The Government of Brazil;
The Government of Ecuador;
The Government of Hawaii;

The Government of Japan; and

The Government of Turkey,

are respectively willing that, from and after the 1st day of September, 1880, the said new Regulations for preventing collisions at sea, a copy whereof is hereunto appended, contained in the First Schedule of the said recited Order in Council of the 14th day of August, 1879, shall, subject to the provisions of the said recited Order in Council of the 24th day of March, 1880, apply to ships belonging to their respective countries when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction:

And whereas the said Government of Japan is desirous that the Article numbered 12 of the said Regulations should, as applied to Japanese ships, be modified as follows, viz., that it shall not be necessary for the fog-horn, by the said Article required to be provided and used on board steam- and sailing-ships as a sound signal for fog, &c., to be sounded by a bellows or other mechanical means when the same is carried on board ships belonging to Japan:

And whereas the said Government of Turkey is desirous that the said Article numbered 12 of the said Regulations shall, as applied to Turkish ships, be modified as follows, viz., that, in lieu of, and in substitution for, the bell required by the said Article to bo provided and used as a sound signal for fog, &c., there may be placed and kept on board Turkish ships an efficient drum, which shall be sounded under the same circumstances and at the same intervals as by the said Article a bell is required to be rung:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said recited Act,* and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to direct,

See "Hertslet's Treaties," Vol, XII. Page 1113.

That from and after the 1st day of September, 1880, the said new Regulations for preventing collisions at sea, a copy whereof is hereunto appended, contained in the First Schedule of the said recited Order in Council of the 14th day of August, 1879, shall, subject to the provisions of the said recited Order in Council of the 24th day of March, 1880, apply to ships belonging to the following countries, that is to say:

whether within British jurisdiction or not:

Provided, however, as regards (1) Japanese and (2) Turkish ships, the Article numbered 12 of the said Regulations shall be modified as follows, viz.:

1. It shall not be necessary for the fog-horn, by the said Article required to be provided and used on board steam- and sailing-ships as a sound signal for fog, &c., to be sounded by a bellows or other mechanical means when the same is carried on board ships belonging to Japan; and

2. It shall not be necessary for the bell, required by Article numbered 12 of the said Regulations to be provided and used on board steam- and sailing-ships as a sound signal for fog, &c., to be placed and kept on board Turkish ships, but that, in lieu thereof, and in substitution therefor, there may be placed and kept on board such Turkish ships an efficient drum, which shall be sounded under the same circumstances and at the same intervals as by the said Article a bell is required to be rung.

C. L. PEEL.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, granting the Privileges of Copyright in the British Dominions to Spanish Works of Literature and the Fine Arts.-Balmoral, November 20, 1880.

At the Court at Balmoral, the 20th day of November, 1880. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

*

WHEREAS a Treaty has been concluded between Her Majesty and the King of Spain, whereby due protection has been secured. within the Kingdom of Spain for the benefit of authors of books, dramatic pieces, musical compositions, drawings, paintings, articles of sculpture, engravings, lithographs, and any other works of literature

* Page 34,

and of the fine arts in which the laws of Great Britain and of Spain do now or may hereafter give their respective subjects the right of property or copyright, and for the benefit of the lawful representatives or assigns of such authors, with regard to any such works first published within the dominions of Her Majesty:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of her Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority committed to her by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 7th and 8th years of her reign, [cap. 12],* intituled "An Act to amend the Law relating to International Copyright," and of another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 15th and 16th years of her reign, [cap. 12],† intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty to carry into effect a Convention with France on the subject of Copyright, to extend and explain the International Copyright Acts, and to explain the Acts relating to Copyright in Engravings," doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the day next after the day of the publication hereof in the "London Gazette," the authors, inventors, designers, engravers, and makers of any of the following works, that is to say, books, dramatic works, musical compositions, drawings, paintings, sculpture, engravings, lithographs, and any other works of literature and the fine arts in which the laws of Great Britain give to British subjects the privilege of copyright; and the executors, administrators, and assigns of such authors, inventors, designers, engravers, and makers respectively shall, as respects works first published within the Kingdom of Spain after the said day next after the day of publication hereof, have the privilege of copyright therein for a period equal to the term of copyright which authors, inventors, designers, engravers, and makers of the like works respectively first published in the United Kingdom are by law entitled to, provided such books, dramatic works, musical compositions, drawings, paintings, sculpture, engravings, lithographs, or other works of literature or the fine arts shall have been registered, and copies thereof shall have been delivered according to the requirements of the said recited Acts within three months after the first publication thereof in any part of the Kingdom of Spain, or, if such work be published in parts, then within three months after the publication of the last part thereof.

And it is hereby further ordered that the authors of dramatic pieces and musical compositions which shall after the day aforesaid be first publicly represented or performed within the Kingdom of Spain, or their executors, administrators, or assigns, shall have the sole liberty of representing or performing in any part of the British dominions such dramatic pieces or musical compositions during a period equal to the period during which authors of dramatic pieces * Vol. XXXIV. Page 1128. Vol. XLI. Page 675,

and musical compositions first publicly represented or performed in the United Kingdom are entitled by law to the sole liberty of representing or performing the same, provided such dramatic pieces or musical compositions have been registered, and copies thereof have been delivered according to the requirements of the said firstrecited Act within three months after the time of their being first represented or performed in any part of the Kingdom of Spain.

And Her Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, and by virtue of the authority of the said secondly herein before recited Act, doth hereby order that the authors of any works published or of any dramatic pieces first publicly represented in the Kingdom of Spain at any time after the day next after the day of the publication hereof in the "London Gazette" who may choose to reserve the right of translating such works or dramatic pieces, their executors, administrators, and assigns, shall, until the expiration of five years from the date of the first publication of the translations authorized by them respectively of such works, or from the time at which the translations authorized by them of such dramatic pieces are first published or publicly represented, be entitled, subject to the provisions mentioned in the said last-mentioned Act, to prevent the publication in the British dominions of any translation of such works or dramatic pieces, and the representation therein of any translation of such dramatic pieces not so respectively authorized by them.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

CONVENTION between the Governor-General of British India and the Governor-General of Portuguese India, respecting Moneys, Weights, and Measures. - Signed at Calcutta, March 18, 1880; and at Pangim, April 12, 1880.

WHEREAS, by the Vth Article of a Treaty of Commerce and Extradition executed at Lisbon on the 26th day of December, 1878, and ratified on the 6th day of August, 1879, between His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, it is provided that the High Contracting Parties shall use their best endeavours to establish between their respective systems of moneys, weights, and measures the

* Vol. LXIX. Page 19.