No. 1.
PROCLAMATION.
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Апау
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENEY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Dis- tinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same :
Whereas by section 180 of the Army Act it is enacted that where the Governor of a Colony in which any of His Majesty's forces are serving declares at any time or times that by reason of the imminence of active service or of the recent existence of active Barvice it is necessary for the public service that the forces in the Colony should be temporarily subject to the said Act as if they were on active service then on the publica- tion in general orders of any such declaration the forces to which the declaration applies shall be deemed to be ou active service for the period mentioned in the declaration so that the period mentioned in any one declaration do not exceed three mouths from the date thereof:
And Whereas by declaration made on the 5th day of August 1914 it was declared by Proclamation published in the Government Gazette Extraordinary dated the 5th day of August 1914 to be necessary for the public service that His Majesty's forces in the Colony be subject to the said Act for the period of three months from the date thereof as if they were on active service:
And Whereas by Proclamations made on the 4th day of November 1914 3rd February, 80th April, 80th July, and 29th October 1915 2nd February, 2nd May, and 28th July 1916 the said declaration was renewed for a period of three months from time to time:
And Whereas by a Proclamation made on the 27th day of October 1916 the said declaration was renewed for a period of three months from the 3rd day of November 1916:
And Whereas the said period of three months will expire on the 3rd day of February 1917 Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HESHY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Comman- der-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same being of opinion that the necessity of Ilis Majesty's forces in the Colony being