PROCLAMATION.
Proclamations No. 14 of the 18th August, 1974, and No. 15 of the 22nd August, 1914, are hereby cancelled and the following substituted therefor :-
No. 16.
Domag
Qohbarnor,
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY May Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Onder of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice- Admicul of the same :
Whereas by sub-clause 10 of Clause III of the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria-in-Council made on the 26th day of October 1896 which was proclained in this Colony on the 5th day of August 1914 it is enacted that the Governor may by proclamation prescribe the maximum price for which say article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after auch proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall seil any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceed. ing 50 dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three mouths :
Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor atud Comunnder-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do hereby pro- scribe that the respective maximuni prices for which the following articles of food may be sold by retail shall be ne follows :---
Schedule of Maximum Retail Prices,
1. Flour:
(a.) Highest Grade.
per bag of 50 lbs., per lb.,
4,00
.0%
(4.) Second Grade.
per bag of 50 lbs.,
**8.50
per lb.,
,07