of such Courts may be transferred, or any one or more of such Courts which may be declared to be the Court for the purposes of this Act by such general rules as aforesaid; but the provisions of this Act conferring a special jurisdiction on the Court as above defined, shall not, excepting so far as such jurisdiction extends, affect the jurisdiction of any Court in Scotland or Ireland in causes, actions, suits, or proceedings relating to trade marks; and if the register requires to be rectified in consequence of any proceedings in any such Court in Scotland or Ireland, due notice of such requirements shall be given to the registrar, and he shall rectify the register accordingly.

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11. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Trade Marks Registration Act, 1875."

AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Egypt, relative to the Acquisition by Great Britain of the Shares held by the Khedive in the Capital of the Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of Suez.-November 25, 1875.*

AGREEMENT entered into this 25th day of November, in the year of Our Lord 1875, between Major-General Edward Stanton, C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, acting on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Government, on the one part, and his Excellency Ismail Sadek Pasha, Egyptian Minister of Finance, acting on behalf of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, on the other part.

WHEREAS His Highness the Khedive has proposed to sell to Her Britannic Majesty's Government the whole of his sha: es in the Suez Canal Company, and whereas Her Britannic Majesty's. Government has proposed to purchase from His Highness the Khedive 177,642 shares in the said Suez Canal Company for the sum of 4,000,0002. sterling:

Now it is hereby witnessed that His Highness the Khedive agrees to sell to Her Britannic Majesty's Government the whole of his shares in the Suez Canal Company, being to the number of 176,602 shares, not, as supposed by Her Britannic Majesty's Government, 177,642 shares; and Her Britannic Majesty's Government agrees to purchase the same for the sum of 4,000,0007. sterling, less the proportionate value of the 1,040 shares, the difference between 177,642 and 176,602, and Her Britannic Majesty's Government agrees to recommend to Parliament to sanction the contract.

* Embodied in Act 39 & 40 Vict., c. 67, August 15, 1876.

Her Britannic Majesty's Government undertakes that on the 1st of December next, on the deposit of the shares in the hands of Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, the sum of 1,000,000l. sterling shall be held at the disposal of the Egyptian Government in the hands of Messrs. N. de Rothschild and Sons, of London; and that the remaining 3,000,000l. sterling, less the amount to be deducted for the value of the 1,040 shares above-mentioned, shall be provided in the months of December and January next, as may be arranged between the Egyptian Government and Messrs. Rothschild and Sons.

The Egyptian Government undertakes to pay to Her Britannic Majesty's Government interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the whole amount of the purchase money of the said 176,602 shares, in equal half-yearly payments, the said payments to be made in London on the 1st of June and the 1st of December in each year, until such times as the coupons of the said shares shall be liberated from the engagement now existing with the Suez Canal Company; and the Egyptian Government further engages that the amount of the said interest shall be charged on the revenues of Egypt.

In witness whereof we have this day affixed our signatures and official seals.

(L.S.) EDWD. STANTON. (L.S.) ISMAIL SADEK.

ACT of the Government of Canada, respecting the Coasting

[33 Vict., cap. 14.]

Trade.*

[Assented to May 12, 1870.] WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed in the 32nd year of Her Majesty's reign,t and intituled "An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions," it is, among other things, in effect enacted, that after the commencement of the said Act, the Legislature of a British Possession, by any Act or Ordinance, from time to time, may regulate the coasting trade of that British Possession, subject in every case to certain conditions mentioned in the said Act, and embodied and enacted in this Act, and that Section 163 of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, known as "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853," which is in the following words: "No goods or passengers shall be carried from one port of any British Possession in Asia, Africa, or America to another port of the same possession, except in British ships," See also Act 38 Vict. c. 27. Page 673.

+ 32 Vict., c. 11. May 13, 1869.

16 & 17 Vict., c. 107. August 20, 1853.

shall be repealed as from the date, in the case of each British Possession, at which either an Act or an Ordinance with respect to the coasting trade, made within two years after the commencement of the Act first above cited, in such British Possession, comes into operation, or if there is no such Act or Ordinance, at which the said two years expire; and that the said first-cited Act shall be proclaimed in every British Possession, by the Governor thereof, as soon as may be after he receives notice of the said Act, and shall come into operation in that British Possession on the day of such proclamation, which day is in the said Act referred to as the commencement thereof:

And whereas the said Act was so proclaimed by the Governor of Canada, on the 23rd day of October now last past: And whereas it is expedient to exercise in the manner hereinafter provided the power vested as aforesaid in the Parliament of Canada; therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. No goods or passengers shall be carried by water from one port of Canada to another, except in British ships; and if any goods or passengers are so carried, as aforesaid, contrary to this Act, the master of the ship or vessel so carrying the same shall forfeit the sum of 400 dollars, and any goods so carried shall be forfeited as smuggled, and such ship or vessel may be detained by the Collector of Customs at any port or place to which such goods or passengers are brought, until such penalty is paid, or security for the payment thereof given to his satisfaction, and until such goods (if any) are delivered up to him to be dealt with as goods forfeited under the provisions of the Act passed in the 31st year of Her Majesty's reign, and intituled "An Act respecting the Customs;" and the said penalty and forfeiture may also be recovered and enforced in the manner provided by the Act last-mentioned, with respect to penalties and forfeitures incurred under it, and as if imposed by it; and this Act shall accordingly be construed with reference to the said Act, and as forming one Act with it, and all words and expressions in this Act shall have the same meaning as the like words and expressions in the said Act.

2. The Governor in Council may from time to time declare that the foregoing provisions of this Act shall not, while such Order in Council is in force, apply to the ships or vessels of any foreign country in which British ships are admitted to the coasting trade of such country, and to carry goods and passengers from one port or place in such country to another, and may from time to time revoke or alter such Order in Council.

3. This Act shall not come into operation until the day to be appointed for that purpose in the proclamation hereinbefore men

tioned, signifying Her Majesty's pleasure that it shall come into operation in Canada.

In this Act the term "British ships" means and includes all ships belonging wholly to persons and bodies corporate, qualified or entitled to be owners of British ships, under the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,"* or other Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in that behalf, in force for the time being.

And where, by Treaty made before the passing of the Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom first cited in the preamble of this Act, Her Majesty has agreed to grant to any ships of any foreign State any rights or privileges in respect of the coasting trade of Her Majesty's possessions, such rights and privileges shall be enjoyed by such ships, for so long as Her Majesty has already agreed, or may hereafter agree, to grant the same, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

ACT of the Government of Canada, to amend " An Act respecting the Coasting Trade of Canada."+

[38 Vict., cap. 27.]

[Assented to April 8, 1875.] IN amendment of an Act passed in the 33rd year of Her Majesty's reign [cap. 14],† intituled "An Act respecting the Coasting Trade of Canada," Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follow :

1. The master of any steam-vessel, not being a British ship, engaged, or having been engaged, after the passing of this Act, in towing any ship, vessel, or raft, from one port or place in Canada to another, except in case of distress, shall forfeit the sum of 400 dollars, and such steam-vessel may be detained by the Collector of Customs at any port or place to or in which such ship, or vessel, or raft is towed, until such penalty is paid, and the said penalty may be recovered and enforced in the manner provided by the Act passed in the 31st year of Her Majesty's reign [cap. 6], and intituled "An Act respecting the Customs," with respect to penalties and forfeitures incurred under it, and as if imposed by it; and this Act shall accordingly be construed with reference to the said Act, and as forming one Act with it, and words and expressions in this Act shall have the same meaning as the like words and expressions in the said Act.

2. The Governor in Council may from time to time declare that the foregoing provisions of this Act shall not apply to the ships or

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vessels of any foreign country in which British ships are admitted to the coasting trade of such country.

And where, by Treaty made before the passing of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in the 32nd year of Her Majesty's reign [cap. 11], intituled "An Act for amending the Law in respect to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions," Her Majesty has agreed to grant to any ships of any foreign State, any rights or privileges in respect of the coasting trade of Her Majesty's possessions, such rights and privileges shall be enjoyed by such ships for so long as Her Majesty has already agreed, or may hereafter agree, to grant the same,—anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

3. This Act shall not come into operation until the day to be appointed for that purpose, in a proclamation signifying Her Majesty's pleasure that it shall come into operation n Canada.

4. In this Act the term "British ship" means and includes all ships belonging wholly to persons and bodies corporate, qualified or entitled to be owners of British ships, under the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854" [cap. 120+], or other Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in that behalf in force for the time being.

PROCÈS-VERBAL between the Representatives of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey, on the Exchange of Ratifications of the Convention of May 20, 1875, for an International Office of Weights and Measures. -Versailles, December 20, 1875.

PROCÈS-VERBAL de la séance tenue au Château de Versailles le 20 Décembre, 1875, pour l'échange des ratifications de la Convention du Mètre.

Étaient présents:

Pour l'Allemagne : M. le Comte de Wesdehler, Chargé d'Affaires; Pour la Belgique M. le Baron Beyens, Envoyé Extraordinaire et Ministre Plénipotentiaire ;

Pour le Danemark: M. le Comte de Moltke-Witfeldt, Envoyé Extraordinaire et Ministre Plénipotentiaire;

Pour l'Espagne: Son Excellence le Marquis de Molins, Ambassadeur Extraordinaire et Plénipotentiaire;

Pour les États-Unis d'Amérique: M. Hitt, Chargé d'Affaires; * 32 Vict., c. 11. May 13, 1869.