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No. 8.

PROCLAMATION.

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By His Excellency Sir Praxers Hesay May, Knight Commander of the Most Dis- tinguished Order of Saiut Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of flougkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same;

Whereas by section 189 of the Army Act it is enacted that where the Governor of a Colony in which any of His Majesty's forces are serving declares at any time or times that by reason of the imminence of active service or of the recent existence of active service it is necessary for the public service that the forces in the Colony should be temptarily subject to the said Act as if they were on active service then on the publica- tion in general orders of any such declaration the forces to which the declaration applies shall be deçined to be on active service for the period mentioned in the declaration so that the period mentioned in any one declaration do not exceed three mouths from the date thereof:

And Whorens by declaration made on the 5th day of August 1914 it was declared by Proclamation published in the Government Gazette Extraordinary dated the 5th day of August 1914 to be necessary for the public service that His Majesty's forces in the Colony be subject to the said Act for the period of three months from the date thereof as if they were on active service:

Aud Whereas by Proclamations made on the 4th day of November, 1914, 3rd February, 301 April, 20th July, and 29th October, 1915, 2nd February, 2nd May, 28th July, and 27th October, 1916, 2nd February, 2nd May, 2nd August, and Zud November, 1917, and 3rd February, 1918, the suidh declaration was renewed for a period of three monilis from time to time:

And Wheresa by a Procfanuations made on the 26th day of April 1918 the sail declaration was renewed for a period of three mouths from the 3rd day of May 1918;