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Officer Administering the GneermuEAT.

By is Excellency CarD SEVERN.

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 he published in the Hongkong Government Gazette or in any Extraordinary Gazette, to prohibit, for such period as should be mentioned in such Proclamation, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong, or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony (amongst other things) Arins, Ammunition, Gunpowder, and Military and Naval Stoves, and any articles which His Excellency may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of Military or Naval Stores, or any or either of such Arius, Ammunition, Gunpowder, Stores, Goods or Articles respect- ively, subject to any permission that may be obtained under Section 3 of the Ordinance:

And whereas, by various Proclamations issued from time to time, sh exportation and carriage coastwise were prohibited, and remain prohibited until the 27th lay of May, 1919, and it is expedient to continue such prohibition :

Now, therefore, I, Charo Severs, Officer Administering the Government and Com- mander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony, do, by this Proclamation, prohibit for a further period of one year from and including the 28th day of May, 1912, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong, or to be carried contwise within the said Colony, Arms, Ammunition, Gunpowder, Military and Naval Stores, Sulphur and Saltpetre, the last two being articles which I judge capable of being con- verted into or unde useful in increasing the quantity of Military or Naval Stores, or any or either of such Arms, Autmuition, Gunpowder, Stores, Goods or Articles respectively, unless this Proclamation sbull, in the meantime, be revoked, or unless permission shall have been obtained under Section of the Ordinance above mentioned.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this 8th day of May, 1912.

By Command,

Caboniol Sporclary.

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