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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 4, 1910.
PROCLAMATIONS.
No. 3.
[L.S.]
FRANCIS HENRY MAY,
Officer Administering the Government.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by the Military Stores (Prohibition of Exportation) Ordinance, 1862, it is enacted that it should be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, by Proclamation to be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette or in any Extraordinary Gazette, to prohibit, for such period as should be mentioned in such Proclamation, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong, or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony (amongst other things) Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, and Military and Naval Stores, and any articles which His Excellency may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of Military or Naval Stores, or any or either of such Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, Stores, Goods or Articles respect- ively, subject to any permission that may be obtained under Section 3 of the Ordinance:
And whereas, by various Proclamations issued from time to time, such exportation and carriage coastwise were prohibited, and remain prohibited until the 27th day of May, 1910, and that it is expedient to continue such prohibition:
Now, therefore, I, Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony, do, by this Proclamation, prohibit for a further period of one year from and including the 28th day of May, 1910, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong, or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony, Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, and Military and Naval Stores, and any articles which I may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of Military or Naval Stores, or any or either of such Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, Stores, Goods or Articles respectively, unless this Proclamation shall, in the meantime, be revoked, or unless permission shall have been obtained under Section 3 of the Ordinance above mentioned.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st day of May, 1910.
By Command,
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
No. 159.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
Regulation made by the Officer Administering the Government- in-Council under Sections 25 (4) and 42 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1899), this 31st day of May, 1910,
Regulation No. 2 of the Regulations with regard to the landing of Foreign Soldiers and Sailors made by the Governor-in-Council on the 7th day of September, 1909, and published in the Government Gazette of the 10th September, 1909, and on page 411 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910, is hereby amended by the deletion of the words "by the Senior Officer in command of the Foreign Ships or Troops concerned" from the two places in which they, occur in that regulation.