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No. 2.

PROCLAMATION.

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Officer Administering the Government.

By His Excellencey FRANCIS HENRY Mar, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Officer Adininistering the Government of Hongkong and its Dependencies.

Whereas by the Military Stores (Prohibition of Exportation) Ordinance, 1862, it is enacted that it should be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, by Proclamation to be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette or in any Extraordinary Gazette, to prohibit, for such period as should be tuentioned in such Proclamation, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong, or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony (amongst other things) Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, and Military and Naval Stores, and any articles which His Excellency may judge capable of being converted into or aude useful in increasing the quantity of Military or Naval Stores, or any or either of such Arme, Amrnunition, Gunpowder, Stores, Goode or Artides respec tively, subject to any permission that may be obtained under Section 3 of the Ordinance:

And whereas, by various Proclamnations issued from time to time, such exportation and carriage coastwise were prohibited, and remain prohibited until the 28th day of May, 1907, and that it is expedient to continue such prohibition:

Now, therefore, 1, Frascis Benny Mar, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Maine Michael and Saint George, Oficer Administering the Government of Hungkong and its Dependencies, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony, do, by this Procuration, prohibit for a further period of six months from and including the 28th day of May. 1907, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong, or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony, Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, and Military and Naval Stores, and any articles which I may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of Military of Naval Stores, or any or either of such Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, Stores, Goods or Articles respectively, unless this Proclamation aball, in the meantime, be revoked, or unless permission shall have been obtained under Section 3 of the Ordinance above mentioned.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this 14th day of May, 1907.

By Command,

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C'olonial Hearttary,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

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