An Act to enable Her Majesty to accept the Services of Officers of the Merchant Service as Officers of Reserve to the Royal Navy.
WHEREAS it is expedient to enable Her Majesty to avail Herself of the Services of certain Officers of the Merchant Service of the United Kingdom, and of the Colonies and Dependencies of Great Britain, as Officers of Reserve to the Royal Navy: 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: