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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 23, 1916.
And whereas by the first Section of the Customs (Exportation Restriction) Act, 1914, it is enacted that the above recited Section of the Exportation of Arms Act, 1900, shall have effect while a state of war in which We are engaged exists as if in addition to the articles therein mentioned there were included all other articles of every description :
And whereas by the first Section of the Customs (Exportation Restriction) Act, 1915, it is enacted that Our power under Section 1 of the Exportation of Arms Act, 1900, as amended by the Customs (Exportation Restriction) Act, 1914, by proclamation to prohibit the exportation of articles to any country or place named in the Proclamation shall, during the continuance of the present war, include the power to prohibit the exportation of any article to any such country or place unless consigned to such person or persons as may be authorised by or under the Proclamation to receive such article :
Now, therefore, We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation declaring, and it is hereby declared, as follows:
(1) The exportation of all articles to Liberia is prohibited unless the articles are consigned to some person or persons authorised by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, or by the Board of Trade, to receive the same; (2), The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs or the Board of Trade shall notify, by order to be published in the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Gazettes, a list of the persons authorised as consignees of articles exported to Liberia, and may from time to time by any order so published alter, vary, or add to, such List;
(3) This Proclamation shall be called the Exportation to Liberia Prohibition
Proclamation, 1916.
Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle, this Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and in the Sixth year of Our Reign.
GoD SAVE The King,
NOTE-A list of persons authorised as consignees of articles exported to Liberia was published in the London Gazette of the 28th April, 1916.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 268.
Order made by the Governor in Council under Sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1916, (Ordinance No. 4 of 1916), on the 22nd day of June, 1916.
The lists which were published in the Gazettes of the 28th day of April, the 12th and 19th days of May, and the 2nd day of June, 1916, of persons and bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, with whom trading is prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamation, Hongkong, 1916, are hereby further amended by the variation and addition of the names set forth in the Schedule hereto :--
SCHEDULE.
Additions to List.
ARGENTINA.
Florencio Martinez de Hoz & Company, Calle Recon-
quista, 43, Buenos Aires,
Martinez de Hoz Bros., Calle Belgrano, 554, Buenos
Aires.
Schelp & Schelp, Calle Bartolome Mitre, 1123, Buenos
Aires.