5-9.) 5. Section 118 of the same Act shall be modified as follows namely :- (1) in the definition of home-trade ship" the words " or in the Straits Settlements" shall be inserted between the words "on the Contnent of India " and the words " or in the Island of Ceylon " and (2) in the definition of " foreign-going ship " the words "nor in the Straits Settlements " shall be inserted between the [...] the schedule to this Act between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great 13ritain and Ireland and the GovernMent of the French Republic with reference to the disposal of the proceeds of wrecks on their respective coasts that declaration having been made applicable to India or of 1889. [...] The Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Empress of India and the Government of the French Republic desiring to regulate by a new Agreement questions relative to the disposal of the proceeds of wrecks on the coasts of the two States have agreed to replace the Declaration signed at London on the 16th June 1879 by the following arrangements :— [...] The intervention of the local authorities shall only take place in the two countries for the purpose of assisting the Consular authority of maintaining order of securing the interests of the salvors if they are strangers to the shiwrecked crews and of assuring the due execution of the arrangements to be carried out for the entry and departure of the merchandise saved. [...] or any other cause sh(ruld prevent the Agents of the Consular service froin seeing to theoperations and the management of the salvage the local authorities who may be charged with the operations and management in question shall be bound to remit to the aforesaid Agents the ship's papers and the net proceeds of the ship and the cargo.
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