if due by the Postal Administration of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago, it shall be paid at New York, and in the money of the country to which the payment is made.

Payments may also be made in money, or by drafts, or by bills of exchange on points other than Port of Spain and New York by mutual agreement between the Post Office Department of the United States and the Governor of the Colony in his Executive Council.

If, pending the settlement of an account, either the Postal Administration of the United States on the one part, or the Postal Administration of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago on the other part, shall ascertain that the one owes the other a balance exceeding 5,000 dollars, the indebted Administration shall promptly remit the approximate amount of such balance to the credit of the other; but nothing herein contained shall prevent such Administration from remitting a lesser amount than 5,000 dollars at discretion.

This account, and the letters which accompany such intermediate remittances, shall be in accordance with the Forms (C), (D), (E), (F), and (G) annexed to this Convention.

XIII. Until the Postal Administration of the United States and that of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago shall consent to au alteration, it is agreed that in all matters of account relative to money orders which shall result from the execution of the present Convention, the pound sterling of Great Britain shall be considered as equivalent to 4 dol. 87 c. of the money of the United States.

XIV. The Postal Administration of the United States and that of the Colony shall be authorized to adopt any additional rules (if not repugnant to the foregoing) for greater security against fraud, or for the better working of the system generally. All such additional rules, however, must, if adopted by the United States, be promptly communicated to the Postal Administration of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago, and, if adopted by the Governor of that Colony in Council, be promptly communicated to the Postal Administration of the United States.

XV. The present Convention shall take effect on the 1st day of January, 1892, and shall continue in force until 12 months after either of the Contracting Parties shall have notified the other of its intention to terminate the same.

Dene in duplicate, and signed at Washington on the 23rd day of October, in the year of our Lord 1891; and at Port of Spain on the 18th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1891.

(L.S.) JNO. WANAMAKER, Postmaster-General

of the United States.

(L.S.) F. NAPIER BROOME, Governor of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

ACT of the British Parliament, to enable Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to make Special Provision for prohibiting the Catching of Seals in Behring Sea by Her Majesty's Subjects during the period named in the Order.

54 Vict., c. 19.]

[June 11, 1891.]*

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.-(1.) Her Majesty the Queen may, by Order in Council, prohibit the catching of seals by British ships in Behcing Sea, or such part thereof as is defined by the said Order, during the period limited by the Order.

(2.) While an Order in Council under this Act is in force

(4.) A person belonging to a British ship shall not kill, or take, er hunt, or attempt to kill or take, any seal within Behring Sca during the period limited by the Order; and

(b.) A British ship shall not, nor shall any of the equipment or crew thereof, be used or employed in such killing, taking, hunting, or atten.pt.

(3.) If there is any contravention of this Act, any person committing, procuring, aiding, or abetting such contravention shall be guilty of a misdemeanour within the meaning of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and the ship and her equipment, and everything on board thereof, shall be forfeited to Her Majesty as if an offence had been committed under section 103 of the said Act, and the provisions of sections 103 and 101, and Part X of the said Act (which are set out in the Schedule to this Act) shall apply as if they were herein re-enacted, and in terms made applicable to an offence and forfeiture under this Act.

(4.) Any commissioned officer on full pay in the naval service of Her Majesty shall have power, during the period limited by the Order, to stop and examine any British ship in Behring Sea, and to detain her, or any portion of her equipment, or any of her crew, if in his judgment the ship is being, or is preparing to be, used or employed in contravention of this section.

(5.) If a British ship is found within Behring Sea having on board thereof fishing or shooting implements or seal-skins, or bodies. of seals, it shall lie on the owner or master of such ship to prove that the ship was not used or employed in contravention of this Act.

* Repealed by Act 56 & 57 Vict., c. 23.

+ Vol. XLV, page 1347.

2.-(1.) Her Majesty the Queen in Council may make, revoke, and alter Orders for the purposes of this Act, and every such Order shall be forthwith laid before both Houses of Parliament and published in the "London Gazette."

(2.) Any such Order may contain any limitations, conditions, qualifications, and exceptions which appear to Her Majesty in Council expedient for carrying into effect the object of this Act.

3.-(1.) This Act shall apply to the animal known as the furseal, and to any marine animal specified in that behalf by an Order in Council under this Act, and the expression "seal" in this Act shali be construed accordingly.

(2.) The expression "Behring Sea" in this Act means the seas known as Behring Sea within the limits described in an Order under this Act.

(3.) The expression "equipment" in this Act includes any boat, tackle, fishing or shooting instruments, and other things belonging to the ship.

(4.) This Act may be cited as "The Seal Fishery (Behring Sea) Act, 1891."

ACT of the British Parliament, to amend "The Merchandize Marks Act, 1887."*

[54 Vict., c. 15.]

[May 11, 1891.] 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. The Customs entry relating to imported goods shall, for the purposes of "The Merchandize Marks Act, 1887," be deemed to be a trade description applied to the goods.

2.-(1.) The Board of Trade may, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, make regulations providing that in cases appearing to the Board to affect the general interests of the country, or of a section of the community, or of a trade, the prosecution of offences under "The Merchandize Marks Act, 1887," shall be undertaken by the Board of Trade, and prescribing the conditions on which such prosecutions are to be so undertaken. The expenses of prosecutions so undertaken shall be paid out of moneys provided by

Parliament.

(2.) All regulations made under this section shall be laid before Parliament within three weeks after they are made if Parliament is

* Vol. LXXVIII, page 814.

then sitting, and if Parliament is not then sitting, within three weeks after the beginning of the next Session of Parliament, and shall be judicially noticed, and shall have effect as if enacted by this Act, and shall be published under the authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

(3.) Nothing in this Act shall affect the power of any person or authority to undertake prosecutions otherwise than under the said regulations.

3. This Act may be cited as "The Merchandize Marks Act, 1891," and "The Merchandize Marks Act, 1887," and this Act may be cited together as The Merchandize Marks Acts, 1887 and 1891."

ACT of the British Parliament, to enable Her Majesty in Council to carry into effect Conventions which may be made with Foreign Countries respecting Ships engaged in Postal Service.

[54 & 55 Vict., c. 31.]

[July 21, 1891.]

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.-(1.) Where Her Majesty the Queen has made a Convention. with a foreign State respecting the postal service between such foreign State and the United Kingdom, or respecting the privileges of mail-ships, that is to say, ships engaged in any postal service of such foreign State or of any part of Her Majesty's dominions, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to order that this Act shall, and this Act shall accordingly, subject to any conditions, exceptions, and qualifications contained in the Order, apply, during the continuance of the Order, as regards such Convention and foreign State, and the postal service and mail-ships described in the Convention; and where by virtue of any such Order this Act or any section thereof applies as regards any Convention, foreign State, postal service, or mail-ship, the same is in this Act referred to as a Convention, foreign State, postal service, or mail-ship to which this Act or section applies.

(2.) The Order shall recite or embody the terms of the Convention, and may be varied or revoked by Order in Council, but shall not continue in force for any longer period than the Convention.

(3.) Every Order in Council under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith after it is made, or, if Parliament be not then sitting, after the then next meeting of Parliament,

and shall also be notified in the "London Gazette," and published under the authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

2.-(1.) Where this section applies to a Convention with a foreign State, the master of a British mail-ship to which this section applies when carrying mails to or from any port of the foreign State, and the master of a mail-ship of the foreign State to which this section applies when carrying mails to or from any port of the United Kingdom, shall not, nor shall any person on board the ship, whether a passenger or belonging to the ship or any other person, convey in the ship for delivery to another person in the foreign State or United Kingdom, as the case may be, any letter other than the letters contained in mail bags intrusted to the master by a postal officer of the United Kingdom or of any foreign State, or than the despatches sent by the Government either of the United Kingdom or of any foreign State.

(2.) If a person on board such ship acts in contravention of this section, or refuses or fails on demand to give up to a postal officer, or, if such person is not the master, to the master, any letters so conveyed by him, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding 51.

(3.) It shall be the duty of the master of the ship to secure the observance of this section by all persons on board the ship, and to inform the proper authorities at the port at which the ship arrives of any breach of this section by any of those persons, and if he wilfully fails to perform that duty he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 51.

(4.) Provided that a person shall not be liable under this section to a fine for any offence for which he has been punished by the law of the foreign State.

(5.) Nothing in this section shall apply to any letters which, if sent from the United Kingdom, would be exempted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster-General under the Act of the Session of the seventh year of King William IV and the first of Her present Majesty, chapter 33, intituled "An Act for the management of the Post Office."

3.-(1.) Where the owner of any ships, British or foreign, applies to the High Court in England, and

(a.) Produces a certificate of a Secretary of State that such owner is subsidized for the execution of any postal service within the meaning of a Convention with a foreign State to which this Act applies, by reason of receiving from the foreign State, or from the Government of the United Kingdom or of a British possession, a bona fide subsidy for the postal service mentioned in the certificate,

and

(b.) Produces sufficient evidence of the nature of the said