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PROCLAMATION.

No. 3.

ClaudSevern

Officer Administering the Government,

By His Excellency Claud Savers, Esquire, Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong.

Whereas the Statute entitled "An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Copyright", which may be cited as the Copyright Act 1911, (1 & 2 Geo. 5 Ch. 36), extends, subject to the provisions of the anid Act, to the Colony of Hongkong; and whewa by virtue of the provisions of Section 37 thereof the said Act comes into operation in the said Colony on the proclamation thereof within the Colony by the Governor and whorens by virtue of the provisions of Section 18 (6) of the Statute entitled "Au for consoli- dating cusctinents relating to the construction of Acts of Parliament and for for her shorten- ing the language used in Acts of Parliament", which may be cited as the Caterpretation Act, 1899, (52 & 53 Vict. Ch. 68), the expression "Governor" in the said. Copyright Act, 1911, includes the Officer Administering the Government :

Now therefore, I, CLAUD SEVERN, Esquire, Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong, do hereby proclaim that the Statute entitled "An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Copyright" which is herewith published, shall on and from 1st day of July, 1912, be in force in the Colony of Hongkong, subject to the provi- sions of the said Statute.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this 28th day of June, 1912,

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

¡Colonial Recretory.