THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1916.
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(d) A vessel carrying contraband shall be liable to capture and condemnation if the contraband, reckoned either by value, weight, volume, or freight forms more than half the cargo.
And it is hereby further ordered as follows:
(i) Nothing herein shall be deemed to affect the Order in Council of the 11th March, 1915, for restricting further the commerce of the enemy or any of His Majesty's Proclamations declaring articles to be contraband of war during the present hostilities,
(ii) Nothing herein shall affect the validity of anything done under the Orders
in Council hereby withdrawn.
(iii) Any cause or proceeding commenced in any Prize Court before the making of this Order may, if the Court thinks just, be heard and decided under the provisions of the Orders hereby withdrawn so far as they were in force at the date when such cause or proceeding was commenced, or would have been applicable in such cause or proceeding if this Order had not been made.
This Order may be cited as The Maritime Rights Order in Council, 1916.”
And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and each of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, all other Judges of His Majesty's Prize Courts, and all Governors, Officers, and Authorities whom it may concern, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
ALMERIC FITZROY.
No. 376. The following additional list of firms which are being wound up under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1916, is published for general informa- tion. The previous lists appeared in, the Gazettes of the 20th April, 5th, 19th, and 26th May, 9th, 23rd, and 30th June, 7th and 28th July, and 4th and 11th August, 1916.
25th August, 1916.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY AMENDMENT Act, 1916.
Orders have been made by the Board of Trade requiring the undermentioned busi- nesses to be wound up :----
200. The London and Provincial Printing Ink Co., 9 and 10, Water Lane, Blackfriars, London, E.C. Chemical, Color and Printers' Ink Manu- facturers. Controller: Sidney John Field, 17, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W. 22 June, 1916.
201. Eiermann and Tabor, 2, Lauderdale Buildings, Aldersgate Street, London, E.C. Bronze Powder and Metal Leaf Manufacturers. Controller: Percy Weiller Straus, 7, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C. 22 June, 1916.
202. The Bakelite Co., Limited, Orb Works, Cowley, Middlesex. Makers of Insulating Material. Controller: Sir William B. Peat, 11, Ironmonger Lane, London, E.C. 20 June, 1916.
203. William Prym Co., Limited, 34, Noble Street, London, E.C. Manufac- turers of Dress Fasteners, Spring-press Studs, &c. Controller: Desmond Forde, 65, London. Wall, London, E.C. 20 June, 1916.