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Exemption on the ground of exceptional financial or busi- ness obligations or domestic position may not be granted for a longer period than three months in the first instance, or for a longer period than four mouths in all, including extensions, if any.
7. An appeal to the Governor in Council from the deci- sions of this tribunal is provided in accordance with the principle of the Military Service Acts that there should be an appeal from the first tribunal. The appeal may be against either enrolment or exemption, and it may be made by the British subject in question, or by his employer (if any), or by the military authorities.
8. The cases of all civil servants between the specified ages will also be enquired into, but in their case the enquiry will be conducted by the Governor.
9. Enrolment Lists will eventually be published in the Gazelle containing the names of all those British subjects who have been passed by the tribunal for enrolment and who have not successfully appealed against the decision of the tribunal. The lists will also contain the names of any civil servants passed for eurolment by the Governor. From the date of the publication of any such list in the Gazette the persons whose names appear in the list shall be deemed to have been enrolled in, and to belong to, the General Military Service Force of Hongkong,
10. The sittings of the tribal will be held in public unless in any case a majority of the members of a tribunal see fit to hold the sitting private, and the Governor in Council, when sitting on appeal from the tribunal, will also sit in public unless the Governor sees fit to hold the sit- ting in private. In other respects also, the procedure, both before the tribunal and before the Governor in Council, will be as the tribunal or the Governor in Conneil, as the case may be, shall direct,
28th May, 1918.
J. H. KEMP,
NOTICES.
Attorney General,
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 131. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st May, 1918, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :---
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
7,770,454
$
5,000,000*
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,
21,175,061 17,000,000
1,192,511
550,000+
TOTAL,
30,438,029
22,550,000
* Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £150,000.
Securities with the Crown Agents £110,000.