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PROCLAMATION,
All previous Proclamations regarding the maximum retail prices of food are hereby revoked and the following substituted therefor :-
No. 6.
Анау
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HAway May Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Goverunt and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice Admnical 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 proclaimed 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which any article of food may be sold by retail and that Any person who after ench proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of au offence against the said "Order" and shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fiue pot exceed- ing 50 dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months :
Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HANDY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished 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 do hereby pre- scribe that the maximum prices for which the following articles of food may be sold by retail shall be as follows :---
1. Flour 1-
Schedule of Maximum Retail Prices.
(2.) First Grade.
per bag of 50 lbs., per lb.,
(b) Second Gradę,
per bag of 50 lbs., per lb.,
(e.) Third Grade.
per bag of 50 lbs., per lb.,
麵粉
$ c. W
4.50 E-TEHU MIIN
.10 40 -2
等
4.00 五十砖庄海包 四元
.08 #ES AD
三等
3.50 五十磅庄每包 三元五毫
07 每磅 七仙