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No. 23.

PROCLAMATION,

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Amay

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Dis- tinguished Order of Salut 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 second section of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1862 as amended by the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1914 it is enacted that it eluali be lawful for the Governor by and with the advice of the Executive Council by proclamation to prohibit for such period as may be therein mentioned either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong or to be carried coastwise within the said Colony arms 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 militory or naval stores provisions or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man or any or either of such Arida ammunition gunpowder stores goods or articles respectively:

And whereas by the fourth section of the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1862 as renumbered by the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance 1914 it is enacted that the Governor may whilst any such proclamation is in force permit to he 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 auch persons and on such termos und subject to such conditions and regulations if any 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 PRANCIS HENRY May Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished 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 by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony do by this Proclamation subject to the provisions of the said fourth section of the said Ordinance prohibit for a period of six months from and including the 27th day of November 1914 the exportation

1. Except to British Ports of the following, namely,

(a.) rubber, and graphite suitable for the manufacture of crucibles;