when within the Protectorate from a merchant ship belonging to a subject or citizen of that country, any Court, Magistrate, or Officer that would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship shall, on the application of a Consular officer of the foreign country, aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may, on information given on oath, issue a warrant for his apprehension, and, on proof of the desertion, order him to be conveyed on board his ship or delivered to the master or mate of his ship, or to the owner of the ship or his agent to be so conveyed; and any such warrant or order may be executed accordingly.

3. Any person who harbours or secretes any deserter liable to be apprehended under this Ordinance, knowing or having reason to believe that he is a deserter, shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding 150 rupees.

4. The Commissioner may at any time by notification declare that any notification theretofore made with respect to the application to a foreign country of this Ordinance shall, from a date specified, cease to have effect, and this Ordinance shall from the said date cease to apply in the case of the foreign country named in that notification.

5. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Foreign Seamen Deserters Ordinance, 1904."

D. STEWART, His Majesty's Commissioner.

NOTIFICATIONS applying the East Africa Protectorate Foreign Seamen Deserters Ordinance, 1904, to certain Foreign Countries. Mombasa, August 15, 1904.

NOTIFICATIONS issued under Section 1 of "The Foreign Seamen Deserters Ordinance, 1904."

No. 1.

WHEREAS by Section 1 of "The Foreign Seamen Deserters Ordinance, 1904,"* No. 10 of 1904, it is enacted that where it appears to the Commissioner that due facilities are, or will be, given by the Government of any foreign country for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant-ships in that country, the Commissioner may, by notification, stating that such facilities are, or will be, given, declare that the said Ordinance shall apply in the case of such foreign country;

And whereas it has been made to appear to me that such due facilities are, or will be, given for the recovery and apprehension See Page 17.

of merchant seamen deserters by the foreign Governments named in the Schedule annexed to this Notification :

Now I, by virtue of the above-mentioned powers conferred upon me, hereby declare that the said Ordinance shall apply in the case of the said foreign States, and that seamen, not being British subjects or natives of the Protectorate, who desert from merchant-ships belonging to subjects or citizens of the said foreign States, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships as provided by the said Ordinance :

Provided always that if any such deserter has committed any crime in the Protectorate, he may be detained till he has been tried by a competent Court, and until his sentence, if any, has been carried into effect.

C. W. HOBLEY, Acting Commissioner.

Whereas by Section 1 of "The Foreign Seamen Deserters Ordinance, 1904,"* No. 10 of 1904, it is enacted that where it appears to the Commissioner that due facilities are, or will be, given by the Government of any foreign country for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant-ships in that country, the Commissioner may, by notification, stating that such facilities are, or will be, given, declare that the said Ordinance shall apply in the case of such foreign country;

And whereas it has been made to appear to me that such due facilities are, or will be, given for the recovery and apprehension of merchant seamen deserters by the foreign Governments named in the Schedule annexed to this Notification:

Now I, by virtue of the above-mentioned powers conferred upon me, hereby declare that the said Ordinance shall apply in the case of the said foreign States, and that seamen who desert from merchant-ships belonging to subjects or citizens of the said foreign States shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships as provided by the said Ordinance :

* See Page 17.

Provided always that if any such deserter has committed any crime in the Protectorate, he may be detained till he has been tried by a competent Court, and until his sentence, if any, has been carried into effect.

C. W. HOBLEY, Acting Commissioner.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL regulating the Currency in the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates. London, February 10,

1905.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day of February, 1905. PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance and other lawful means, His Majesty has power and jurisdiction within the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates :

And whereas by an Order in Council made the 19th day of May, 1898, it was enacted that the silver rupee of British India should be the standard coin of the East Africa Protectorate, and that certain subsidiary coins, being coins of British India and of the late Imperial British East Africa Company, should be legal tender in the said Protectorate for the respective amounts therein. specified;

And whereas it is expedient that in place of the subsidiary copper coins, made legal tender by the recited Order, new subsidiary copper coins representing decimal parts of the rupee should be substituted;

And whereas it is expedient that the silver rupee of British India should be the standard coin of the Uganda Protectorate, and that the same subsidiary coins should be legal tender for the same respective amounts in East Africa and Uganda;

* Sce Vol. 21. Page 85.

And whereas it is expedient that British sovereigns should be made legal tender in East Africa and Uganda at the rate specified in this Order;

And whereas it is expedient to provide for the issue of Government paper currency with the two Protectorates :

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890,"* or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as "The East Africa and Uganda (Currency) Order in Council, 1905."

2. In this Order the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless the context otherwise requires, that is to say:

"East Africa " means the East Africa Protectorate as defined in the East Africa Order in Council, 1902.†

Uganda" means the Uganda Protectorate as defined in the Uganda Order in Council, 1902. +

The Protectorate means East Africa or Uganda as the case may require.

The expression "Commissioner" means His Majesty's Commissioner for the Protectorate, and includes the person for the time being administering the Government of the Protectorate.

The expression "Treasury means the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.

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The expression Secretary of State" Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

means one of His

The expression "person" includes a body of persons corporate or unincorporate.

The expression

tectorate.

"Gazette means the Gazette of the Pro

The expression "current coin " means coin which is for the time being legal tender in the Protectorate.

The expression "imprisonment of either description means rigorous or simple imprisonment as provided in the Indian Penal Code or any law of the Protectorate.

Words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular.

Article 3 of the East Africa Order in Council, 1902, and Article 3 of the Uganda Order in Council, 1902, are incorporated in this Order, for the purpose of application to the Protectorates respectively.

* See Vol. 18. Page 561.

See Vol. 23. Page 227.

† See Vol. 23. Page 79.

Currency Board.

3.-(1) A Board of Commissioners of Currency (in this Order referred to also as "the Currency Board") shall be established for the purposes of this Order, and shall consist of the Treasurer of East Africa, or the person for the time being discharging his duties, and two other persons being officers in the public service of East Africa, to be nominated by the Commissioner for East Africa.

(2) The Currency Board shall have an office at Mombasa, and also, if the Secretary of State so directs, at Entebbe, and may employ such officers and persons as may be from time to time authorized by the Commissioner.

(3) Any act of the Currency Board may be signified in writing under the hands of the Commissioners of Currency.

(4) If any nominated member of the Currency Board is for the time being unable to act, the Commissioner may appoint a fit person to act in his place during such inability.

Coin.

4. (1) The silver rupee of British India, of the standard weight and millesimal fineness specified in the First Schedule to this Order, shall be the standard coin of the Protectorates.

(2) Every contract, sale, payment, bill, note, instrument and security for money, and every transaction, dealing, matter and thing whatever relating to money or involving the payment of, or the liability to pay, any money shall, in the absence of express agreement to the contrary, be held to be made, executed, entered into, done and had in the Protectorates respectively according to the standard coin.

(3) The coin mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Order shall be treated as equal to the standard coin.

5.-(1) Subsidiary coins may from time to time be coined for the Protectorates under the direction of the Master of Our Mint, or at one of Our Mints in British India, of the denominations, weights and fineness specified in the Third Schedule to this Order, or of any of those denominations as the Secretary of State may think fit.

(2) Those coins shall be of such form and shall have such impressions as may be approved by the Master of Our Mint and by a Secretary of State, together with an indication of the value of the piece in cents or hundredths of a rupee or otherwise as may be proper.

(3) Each coin so coined shall be a legal tender for the amount of its denomination.

(4) Each of the subsidiary coins mentioned in the Fourth