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2. The following payments have to be made to the Custodian of Enemy Property :
(a) Any sum which would have been payable to an enemy by any person, firm, or company, by way of dividends, interest, or share of profits: see Ordinance No. 22 of 1915, s. F(D.
(b) Any sum which would have been payable to an enemy in respect of interest on securities issued by any government, British or foreign. or any corporation other than a company, or municipal or other authority, within or with- out the colony: see Ordinance No. 28 of 1915, s. 5 (1) (a).
(e) Any sum which would have been payable to an enemy by way of payment off of any such securities, or of any securities issued by any company see Ordinance No. 28 of 1915, s. 5 (1) (b).
3. The Custodian has hitherto been prepared to receive also the following voluntary returns:-----
(a) Particulars of debts, including bank balances and deposits, due from enemies, including persons in territory in hostile occupation.
(b) Particulars of property other than debts held by enemies, including persons in territory in hostile occupatiou.
(Particulars of luggage detained in enemy countries, including territory in hostile occupation.
4. His Majesty's Government now consider it of great importance that full information should be obtained with regard to these matters which hitherto have been the subject of merely voluntary returns. This bill therefore makes the following returns compulsory :
(Returns of all property of every description whatsoever in enemy territory or in territory in hostile occupation, or of any interest in any such property, to which any person in the Colony is entitled.
(b: Returns of all claims against any persons. firms, companies, and other corporations in enemy territory, or in territory in hostile
occupation.
{e, Returns of all claims against enemy govern-
ments.
The maximum penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of the Ordinance will be a fine of $1,000, or imprisonment for six months, or both. There is also a penalty of 8500 a day for the period during which the default continues. The bill fixes a period of one month after the passing of the Ordinance for the fur- nishing of the returns.
8th March, 1918.
J. H. KEMP,
Mtorney General.