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No. 14.

PROCLAMATION,

Amaz

Glogernor.

By His Excellency 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 summe a

Whereas by anb-clause 10 of Clause III of the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria-in-Council made on the 20th 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any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after anchi proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceed. ing 50 dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months:

Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HEY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distiu- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George lovernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same do hereby pre- scribe that the respective maxitaum prices for which the following articles of food may be sold by retail shall be as follows :-

1. Flour:-

(a.) Highest Grade.

per bag of 50 lbs., per lb.,

(4.) Second Gradie.

per bag of 50 lbs., per lb.,

2. Tinued Milk -

$ c. 4.00

.08

3.50

07

(a.) Sweetened Condensed Milk, per 1 lb, tin.,

.30

(6) Unsweetened Condensed Milk, për 1 lb. tin, (c.) Sterilized Milk, per tin,

.25

.25

NOTE.-In consideration of the loss sustained by discount on subsidiary coinage, 1 lb. tins of Sweetened Condensed Milk, if paid for in subsidiary coin, shall be at the rate of 32 cents per tin for purchases amounting to $1 or less.

Given under my band and the Public Seal of the Colouy at Victoria, Hongkong, this 18th day of August, 1914.

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Kaustivem

Colonial Secretary.