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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 13, 1912.
PROCLAMATIONS.
[L.S.]
No. 6.
FRANCIS HENRY MAY,
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depedencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by section 6 of Ordinance 10 of 1886, entitled--The Peace Preservation Or- dinance, 1886, it is provided among other things that :—
Whenever it shall appear to be necessary for the preservation of the public peace of the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to declare by Proclamation to be published in the Gazette that the Colony shall be subject to the provisions of sections 7 to 14 of the said Ordinance.
And whereas it appears to me in Executive Council that such necessity exists :
Now, therefore, I, Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, in pursuance of the said section and by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby under my hand declare and proclaim that the Colony of Hongkong shall be subject to the above quoted provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this 13th day of December, 1912.
By Command,
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 372.-The following Despatch from the American Embassy, London, has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies and is published for general informa- tion.
13th December, 1912.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.
AMERICAN EMBASSY, LONDON, 21st October, 1912.
SIR,-Under instructions I have the honour to inform you that, on the 27th of Septem- ber last, the Acting Secretary of State of the Navy transmitted to the Secretary of State a copy of an Executive Order which was signed on the 23rd of that month relative to the closing of certain harbours to commercial or privately owned vessels or foreign registry.
The text of the Order is as follows:
"Executive Order,”
"It is hereby ordered that the following named harbours, viz., Tortugas, "Florida; Great Harbour, Culebra ; Guantanamo Naval Station, Cuba; Pearl "Harbour, Hawaii; Guam; Subig Bay, Philippine Islands; and Kiska Aleutian "Islands, are not, and that they shall not be made sub-ports of entry for foreign "vessels of commerce and that said harbours shall not be visited by any commer- "cial or privately owned vessel of foreign registry; nor by any foreign national vessel, except by special authority of the United States Navy Department in "each case.
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"The White House,
September 23rd, 1912."
(Signed)
I have, &c.,
WM. H. TAFT.
The Right Honourable
Sir E. GREY, Bart., K.G.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.
(Signed) WILLIAM PHILLIPS.