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property (except personal luggage).

dends and uncashed coupons are debts and should be recorded on Registration Order G.

Registration Order "H*", to be used for mak- ing a return of all property in enemy or occupied territories; also British cargoes on enemy ships which have sheltered in enemy or neutral waters. [For subheads see Appendix II].

It should include public securities of all enemy countries, whether the proper titles to these securi- ties are held in this Colony or not. It is essential that the actual value of the property so held and not merely its face value should be recorded and in estimating these values the following rules should be observed :—

(a) In all cases where sales in the securities are now taking place, or have taken place since the War began, the prices realized at such sales should be taken as the basis of the valuation.

(b) In other cases where no such sales have been made the value should be the value on the 1st August, 1914, or on the latest date previous to the 1st August, 1914, on which a price was recorded.

(c) In cases where lands, houses, or leases are included in the Return, the value recorded should be the estimated capital value as on the 1st August, 1914, less the estimated capital value of any charges on the same.

* See Appendix I.

Registration Order "J*" to be used for making Personal

“J*

a return of personal luggage left behind in enemy luggage.

territory or in territory in hostile occupation by persons travelling to England about the time of the outbreak of War,

Claims against Enemy Governments for goods seized or sequestrated in enemy or occupied terri- tory by the said Governments should not be made on any of the above forms but should be lodged with the Custodian on a separate form. The Custodian will then forward them to the Director, Foreign Claims Office, Foreign Office, Whitehall. London, S. W.

12. The Governor has exempted the liquidators Section 4 appointed under the provisions of the Alien Enemies (8)

Section 5 (Winding up) Ordinances, 1914 to 1917 and may (3) exempt any other person from the obligation to make the returns and payments referred to paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 above.

E. D. C. WOLFE,

Custodian of Enemy Property.

HONGKONG, 1st June, 1918.

* See Appendix E.

of 1915. Ord. No. 22

in Section 5

(4)

Section 6 (4)

Ord. No. 28

of 1915.