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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette
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EXTRAORDINARY.
特 門 轅 港 香
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23RD APRIL, 1898.
No. 19.
VOL. XLIV,
號九十第
日三初月三閏年戌戊 日三十二月四年八十九百八千
薄瓜十四 第
No. 2.
PROCLAMATION.
[L.S.] WILSONE BLACK,
Major-General,
Officer Administering the Government.
By His Excellency Major-General WILSONE BLACK, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong- kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas, the Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, has informed the Government of this Colony that War has unhappily broken out and is existing between the Kingdom of Spain and the United States of America, and has communicated Her Majesty's commands that all Her subjects shall observe a strict neutrality in and during the said War, and shall abstain from violating or contravening either the Laws and Statutes of the Realm in that behalf, or the Law of Nations in relation thereto, as they will answer to the contrary at their peril ;
And whereas in and by a certain Statute made and passed in a Session of Parliament holden in the 33rd and 34th year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to regulate the Conduct of Her Majesty's Subjects during the Existence of Hostilities between Foreign States with which Her Majesty is at Peace," it is, amongst other things, declared and enacted as follows :--
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"This Act shall extend to all the dominions of Her Majesty, including the adjacent territorial
waters.
"Illegal Enlistment.
"If any person, without the licence of Her Majesty, being a British subject, within or without Her Majesty's dominions, accepts or agrees to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign State at war with any foreign State at peace with Her Majesty, and in this Act referred to as a friendly State, or, whether a British subject or not, within Her Majesty's dominions, induces any other person to accept or agree to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any such foreign State as aforesaid,-
"He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprison- ment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the Court before which the offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if awarded, may be either with or without hard labour.
"If any person, without the licence of Her Majesty, being a British subject, quits or goes on board any ship with a view of quitting Her Majesty's dominions, with intent to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign State at war with a friendly State, or, whether a British subject or not, within Her Majesty's dominions, induces any other person to quit or to go on board any ship with a view of quitting Her Majesty's dominions, with the like intent,--
He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprison- ment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the Court before which the offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if awarded, may be either with or without hard labour.