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Report on an Ordinance entitled

An Ordinance for the more effectual preventing and

further punishment of the offence of trading with

the enemy.

This Ordinance was introduced in accordance with the

instructions contained in the telegraphic despatch of the 21st September 1914 from the Right Honourable the Secretary

of State for the Colonies.

Section 5 was added to give statutory authority to the

winding up of the affairs of the local branch of the

Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, which had been approved by the

Secretary of State in his telegram of the 15th August.

Section 6 was added under the authority of the tele-

graphio despatch of the 3rd October from the Secretary of

State. It is drawn in somewhat wide terms, but the

intention is to allow to local branches of German and Austro.

Hungarian firms, and to purely local traders of German and Austro-Hungarian nationality, the fullest freedom of trading which is consistent with reasonable precautions

against the transmission of money or its equivalent to

enemy territory during the war,

In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excel-

lency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His

Lajesty and on His behalf.

Attorney General,

10/10/14.

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