3. Power to the Treasury to borrow.

4. Short title.

An Act to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. [29th March 1894.]

Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums herein after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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:

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1. The Treasury may issue out of the Con- Issue of solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of 578,0077.148. Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards Consolimaking good the supply granted to Her dated Fund Majesty for the service of the years ending on vice of the the thirty-first day of March one thousand years endeight hundred and ninety-three and one ing 31st thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the and 1894. sum of five hundred and seventy-eight thousand and seven pounds fourteen shillings.

March 1893

A.D. 1894. thousand six hundred and seven pounds fourteen shillings, and the Treasury shall repay the moneys so borrowed, with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said moneys were borrowed.

Any sums so borrowed shall be placed to A.D. 1894. the credit of the account of the Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available.

4. This Act may be cited as the Consolidated Short title. Fund (No. 1) Act, 1894.

Enactment of articles of arbitra

An Act to provide for carrying into effect the Award of the Tribunal of Arbitration constituted under a Treaty between Her Majesty the Queen and the United States of America.

[23rd April 1894.]

WHEREAS by a treaty between Her Majesty the Queen and the Government of the United States of America various questions which had arisen respecting the taking and preservation of the fur seal in the North Pacific were referred to arbitrators as mentioned in the treaty:

And whereas the award of such arbitrators (in this Act referred to as the Behring Sea Arbitration Award) dated the fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, contained the provisions set out in the First Schedule to this Act; and it is expedient to provide for carrying the same into effect:

Be it therefore 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.) The provisions of the Behring Sea tors' award Arbitration Award set out in the First respecting the fur seal. Schedule to this Act shall have effect as if

those provisions (in this Act referred to as the scheduled provisions) were enacted by this Act, and the acts directed by Articles one and two thereof to be forbidden were expressly forbidden by this Act.

(2.) If there is any contravention of this ing, or abetting such contravention shall be Act, any person committing, procuring, aid

guilty of a misdemeanor within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the 17 & 19 Vict. ship employed in such contravention and her c. 10. equipment, and everything on board thereof, shall be liable to be forfeited to Her Majesty as if an offence had been committed under section one hundred and three of the said Act; Provided that the court, without prejudice to any other power, may release the ship, equip. ment, or thing, on payment of a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds.

(3.) The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, with respect to official logs (including the penal provisions) shall apply to every vessel engaged in fur seal fishing.

(4.) Every person who forges or fraudulently alters any licence or other document issued for the purpose of Article four or of Article seven in the First Schedule to this Act, or who procures any such licence or document to be forged or fraudulently altered, or who knowing any such licence or document to be forged or fraudulently altered uses the same, or who aids in forging or fraudulently altering any such licence or document, shall be guilty of a mis