304 BROADLAND SPORT 



COPY OF ADMIRALTY WARRANT. 



By the COMMISSIONERS for executing the Office of LORD HIGH 

 ADMIRAL of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, &c. 



WHEREAS we deem it expedient that the Members of the Norfolk 

 and Suffolk Yacht Club, being natural born or naturalised British 

 Subjects, should be permitted to wear on board their respective 

 vessels the Red Ensign of Her Majesty's Fleet, with the distinctive 

 marks of the Club on the fly thereof, viz. : a Crown with the Prince 

 of Wales' Plume underneath, on the following conditions : 



We do therefore by virtue of the power and authority vested in 

 us, under the provisions of the 73rd Section of the Merchant 

 Shipping Act, 1894, hereby Warrant and authorise the Red 

 Ensign of the Her Majesty's Fleet, with the distinctive marks of the 

 Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, to be worn on board the re- 

 spective vessels belonging to the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club 

 and to Members of such Yacht Club, being natural born or natural- 

 ised British Subjects, accordingly, subject to the following con- 

 ditions : 



1. Every vessel belonging to the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht 



Club, in order to be eligible to wear the Ensign author- 

 ised by this Warrant, shall have been registered as a 

 British Vessel in accordance with the Merchant Ship- 

 ping Act, 1894. 



2. The Ensign shall not, without our authority in writing, be 



worn on board any vessel belonging to the Norfolk and 

 Suffolk Yacht Club while such vessel is lent, on hire or 

 otherwise, to any person not being a Member of the 

 Club, or who, being a Member of the Club, is not a 

 natural born or naturalised British Subject. 



Given under Our Hands and the Seal of the Office of Admiralty 

 this Ninth Day of March, 1898. 



(Signed) FRED. G. W. BEDFORD. 



A. W. MOORE. 

 By command of their Lordships. 



(Signed) EVAN MACGREGOR. 



