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PROCLAMATION.

No. 20.

AMENDING THE TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ((NEUTRAL COUNTRIES - PROCLAMATION, HONGKONG, 1916.

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY 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 it is desirable to amend the Proclamation of the 28th day of April 1916 called the Trading with the Enemy (Neutral Countries) Proclamation 1918 :

Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Kuight 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 and Vice-Admiral of the same by and with the advice of the Executive Conucil of this Colony do by this Proclanation declare and it is hereby declared as follows :----

1. Paragraph 4 (4) of the Trading with the Enemy (Neutral Countries) Proclama- tion, Hongkong, 1916, is hereby revoked, and in Hieu thereof the following paragraph shall, as from the date hereof, be inserted in the said Proclama- tion *--

"4 (a). Any person or body of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the Colony of Hongkong, who is engaged in any non-enemy country in the business of Insur- ance from carrying on in that country such business (other than the business of Marine Insurance or of the Insurance against Bre or any risk of goods or merchandise during transit from shipper's or manufacturer's warehouse until deposited in warehouse on the temni- nation of the transit, any part of the transit is by sea), with or through the agency of any of the persons or bodies of persons mon- tioned in the Statutory List.

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2. The said Proclamation of the 28th day of April 1916 shall be called "The

Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamation, Hongkong, 1916."

3. This Proclamation shall be called "The Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamation, Hongkong, 1916, No. 9, and shall be read as one with the Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamation, Hongkong, 1916, and that Proclamation and this Proclamation may be cited together as the Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamations, Hongkong, 1916.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 23rd day of June 1918.

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Claudevem

Colonial Secretary.