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No. 11.

PROCLAMATION.

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Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS Hessy 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 the secoud section of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1882 as amended by the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1914 it is coacted that it shull be lawful for the Governor by and with the advice of the Executive Council by proclama- tion to prohibit for such period as may be therein mentioned either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong or to be carried constwise within the said Colony armis ammunition and gunpowder military and naval stores and any articles which the Governor may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores provisious or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man or any or either of such arme ammunition gunpowder stores goods or articles respectively:

And whereas by the fourth section of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1862 as conumbered by the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1914 it is enacted that the Governor may whilst any such proclamation is in force permit to be exported or to be carried coastwise or to be water-borne to be so exported or carried any particular articles or class of articles the export of which is prohibited by such proclamation to such persons and on such terms and subject to such conditions and regulations if my as to the Governor may seem fit and may at any time revoke or vary the terms of any such permission :

Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY 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 und Vice- Admiral of the same by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony do by this Proclamation subject to the provi- sions of the said fourth section of the said Irdinance prohibit for a period of six months from and including the 7th day of August 1914 to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong the following provisions and victuals namely --

Butter.

Flour.

Frozen Meat.

Live Cuttle.

Qatmen).

Potatoes.

Rice.

Sugar.

Tapioen.

Tinned Milk.

Tinned provisions of all kinds.