acquire the said property, and such date shall be called the date of acquisition.

In the event of the Government being unable to agree upon a price for the purchase of the property, the Sub-Commissioner, or some person appointed by him in that behalf, shall hold an inquiry and fix a fair price to be paid for such property, and in making such valuation shall observe the principles laid down in the Indian Land Acquisition Act, and shall make such additions to the purchase money as are therein specified.

The date at which such valuation is to be made shall be the date of acquisition as specified in this Order.

On payment or tender of the sum fixed as aforesaid or upon payment thereof into Court if there is any dispute relating thereto the Government may enter upon and take possession of the property.

The rules and directions for procedure contained in the Indian Land Acquisition Act, 1894, shall, as far as they may be applicable and convenient, apply in all cases when property is acquired under this Order, and any person dissatisfied with the amount awarded shall be at liberty to appeal to the competent Native Court in respect thereof in the same manner as persons to whom the Indian Land Acquisition Act is applicable are entitled to appeal to the British Court.

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

Mombasa, June 12, 1897.

REGULATIONS respecting Caravans entering the East Africa Protectorate across German or Italian Frontiers (Arms, Ammunition, &c.). Zanzibar, June 14, 1897.

[No. 48.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to limit the amount of arms or ammunition which a caravan entering the East Africa Protectorate across one of its land frontiers may bring into the said Protectorate, it is hereby notified that Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General has in virtue of the powers vested in him made the following:

Regulations.

1. The number of porters, askaries, or natives carrying arms and ammunition into the East Africa Protectorate across

the German and Italian frontiers in any caravan shall be limited to one for every 10 ordinary porters.

2. The leader of any such caravan shall report to the nearest Government Officer on the frontier, or if there be none at the actual frontier, then at the nearest Government station on or close to the route followed by it, the exact number of rifles or other arms of precision carried by the men comprising it.

3. Neglect to comply with the above Regulations will render the arms liable to confiscation.

4. Any European wishing to lead an expedition of whatever nature overland into the East Africa Protectorate from the adjacent German and Italian territory, must, before such expedition is permitted to pass the boundary of the Protectorate, obtain permission for it to do so, from Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General, or from the Sub-Commissioner of the Province by which it is proposed to enter it.

5. The application for such permission should state (1) the objects of the expedition, and (2) the number of men and arms proposed to be introduced into the Protectorate, and should be accompanied by an engagement to obey all local laws and regulations relating to caravans, arms, &c., which may be for the time being in force within the Protectorate.

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

Zanzibar, June 14, 1897.

REGULATIONS respecting the employment of Forged or Used Postage Stamps in the East Africa Protectorate. Zanzibar, June 25, 1897.

[No. 49.]

WHEREAS the East Africa Protectorate is a party to the International Postal Union, it is hereby notified that Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General has, in pursuance of the powers vested in him, and of Article XVIII of the Postal Union Convention,* made the following:

Regulations.

1. There shall not be posted or conveyed or delivered by post any letter or postal packet or parcel,

(a.) Containing or bearing any fictitious postage stamp, that is to say, any facsimile, or imitation, or representation of any stamp

* See Vol. 19. Page 31.

for denoting any rate or duty of postage, including any stamp for denoting a rate or duty of postage of the United Kingdom, or of any of Her Majesty's Colonies or Possessions or any foreign country;

(b.) Purporting to be prepaid with any stamp which has been previously used to prepay any other letter or postal packet or parcel, or to prepay any other Revenue duty or tax.

2. Any such letter, or postal packet, or parcel, if posted or tendered for conveyance by post, may be detained and either returned or given up to the sender thereof or dealt with or disposed of in such other manner as may be authorized by the Postmaster-General of the East Africa Protectorate.

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

Zanzibar, June 25, 1897.

NOTICE of the exhibition of the East Africa Order in Council (1897). Mombasa, July 12, 1897.

IT is hereby notified by Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General that Her Majesty the Queen in virtue of the powers vested in her by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means signed on the 7th instant an Order in Council,* making new provisions for peace, order and good government and more especially for the administration of justice in the "East Africa Protectorate," and abrogating within its limits the existing Zanzibar and Africa Orders in Council.

Under Section 63 (3) of this Order the Commissioner is directed to exhibit a copy of this Order for one month after its receipt by him in his public office at Mombasa, and it is hereby notified that the said Order has been to-day affixed by him in the said office and may be inspected and read there by any person desirous of so inspecting and reading it between the hours of 9 and 12 A.M. and 2 and 4 P.M. of every day, Sundays and any other day which may at any time be declared a public holiday, excepted.

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Britannic Majesty's
Commissioner and Consul-General.

Mombasa, July 12, 1897.

* See Vol. 20. Page 50.

NOTICE respecting the application to the Mainland Dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar of the Ordinance of June 15, 1897, restricting the importation of Alcoholic Liquors into Zanzibar.

Mombasa, July 12,

Zanzibar, September 15,

[No. 51.]

1897.

WHEREAS it is provided in the Ordinance for restriction of the importation of alcoholic liquors into Zanzibar, dated June 15th, and published in the "Zanzibar Gazette" of the 30th ultimo, that from and after six months from the aforesaid date of June 15, no distilled or alcoholic liquors shall be imported whether by land or sea into any of the territories administered by or for His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar otherwise than in accordance with this Ordinance, which is thus rendered. applicable to the mainland dominions of His Highness as well as to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba.

And whereas certain articles of the said Ordinance provide for its application by the Government of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar but not for its application by the Officers administering for His Highness's dominions on the mainland, and some doubt and uncertainty may thereby be occasioned, it is hereby notified that Her Majesty's Commissioner and ConsulGeneral has, in virtue of the powers in him vested, and subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, issued the following:

Notice.

1. Where in Article 2 of the said Ordinance it is provided that special exceptions may be made by the First Minister, for the words "First Minister" are substituted and shall be read in the mainland portion of His Highness's dominions, the words "Commissioner and Consul-General."

2. In Article 4 for the words "Government Mark H. H. G." are substituted and shall be read in the mainland portion of His Highness's dominions the words "Government Mark E. A. P."

3. In Article 6 for the words "Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General" are substituted and shall be read in the mainland portions of His Highness's dominions, the words "Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General."

4. In Article 7 for the words "Ordinance of the 31st of May, 1892," are substituted and shall be read in the mainland portions of his Highness's dominions the words "Notice of the 1st of October, 1896."

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

Mombasa, July 12, 1897.

* See Annex.

This notice has now received the approval of the Secretary of State.

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

Zanzibar, September 15, 1897.

(ANNEX) ORDINANCE for restriction of the Importation of Alcoholic Liquors into the East Africa Protectorate. Zanzibar, June 15, 1897.

WHEREAS it is provided by Article XCI of the General Act of the Conference of Brussels, to which both Her Majesty the Queen and His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar are parties, that the importation of distilled liquors shall be prohibited by the several Powers having possessions or Protectorates situated within the region of the zone defined in Article XC† of that General Act wherever either on account of religious belief or from other motives the use of distilled liquors does not exist or has not been developed :

And whereas it is further provided by the same Article that each Power shall determine the limits of the zone of prohibition of alcoholic liquors in its possessions or Protectorates, and shall be bound to notify the limits thereof to the other Powers within the space of six months, and also that the above prohibition can only be suspended in the case of limited quantities destined for the consumption of the non-native population, and imported under the system and conditions determined by each Government.

And whereas notice was given by Her Majesty's Government to the several Powers signatory to the Brussels Act by a Circular, dated London the 6th April, 1892, that Her Majesty's Government had decided that the British Protectorate of Zanzibar, including all the dominions of the Sultan, both on the Islands and on the mainland, should be placed under the terms of Article XCI of the Act of Brussels from that date.

And whereas by the same notice it was stated that Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General had been directed to notify, in accordance with the terms of Article XCI, the system and condition determined by the Protecting Power under which limited quantities might be imported for the consumption of the non-native population:

And whereas it has been found necessary to impose further restrictions in order to regulate the introduction and sale of

* See Vol. 19. Page 299.

+ See Vol. 19. Page 299. See Note of 22nd April, 1892. Vol. 20. Page 952.