Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-05-19

further provided that Ship built, com
missioned, equipped, or dispatched In
contruvention OF the said Act may 10
condemned and forfeited tT Judgment
OF this Court OF Admiralty; and that
IL the Secretary OF STATE or Chief
Executive Authority ~ satisfied that
there Ia reasonable and probable
cause for believing That ship within
Our Dominiona has been OF 10 being
built, commissioned. or equipped con-
trsry to the said Act, and ia about to
bo taken beyond the limits OF such
Dominiuns, or that Ship ia about to
be despatched contrary to the Act,
such Secretary OF State, OF Chiof
Executive Authority, shall have power
to issue warrant authorizing the
seizure ami search of such Ship and
her detention until she has been either
condemned or released by Process of
Law. And whereas certain powers of
seizure and detention are conferred by
the said Act on certain Local Authori-
ties;
Now, in order that none Of Our Sub.
jeGts may unwariy render themselves
liable to tho Penalties imposed by the
said Statute, Va do hereby strictly
command that no Person or Parsons
whatsoever do commit any Act, Mat
ter, or Thing whatsoever contrary to
the provisions OF the sail Statute.
upon pain OF the several Penalties by
the said Statute imposed and OF Our
high Disploasure,
And We DO hereby further warn and
admonish all Our loving Subjects, and
all Persons Whatsoever entitled to Our
| Protection, to observe towHrdn each
| of tho aforesaid Powers, their Subjects,
| Citizens, and Territories, and towards
all lielligernats whatsoever with whom
We nIe at Peace. the Duties OF Neu-
trality and to respect, 10 all and each
of them, the Exercise Of Belligerent
Rights.
And We hereby further warn all Our
loving Suhjsots, and oil Persons what
soever entitled to Our Protection, that
il any OF them Hhal presume, in con-
tempt of this Our Royal Proclamation,
ami of Our high Disrleasure, to do any
Acts in derogatinn OF their Duty as
Subjects of Neutral Power In War
between uther Powers, or in violation
or c0ntravention OF the Law OF Nations
in that Behalf, as more especially by
breaking, Or endeavouring to hreak.
any RloCknde lawfully and actually es-
|
the said Powers, or by carrying Officers,
Soldiers Dispatches, Arms, Ammuni.
tion, Military Stores or Materials, or
any Article or Articles considered aud
deemed to he Gontrahaud nf War aG-
cnrding 10 the Law or moGern Usages
of Nations, for the Use or Service Of
either Of the said Powers that all Por
sons 80 offending, together with their
Ships and Goods, will righttuly incur
aud he Justly liable to hostile Capture,
and to tho Penalties denounced by tho
Law of Nations 10 that Behalf.
And We do hereby give Notice that
all Our Subjects and Persons entitled
TO Our Protection who may misconn uct
themselves in tho Premises will do 80
at their Peril, and of their own wrong
and that they will in no wise ohtnin
any Protection from Us against such
Capture of such Penalties as aforesaid,
hut will. on the contrary, incur Our
high Displeasure by such Misconduct.
Given at Our Court at Saint James's,
this twenty third day of April, in the
year of our Lord ore thousand eight
hundred and ninety eight, in tho sixty.
first year Of Our reign.
God save the Queen.