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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 7, 1913.

PROCLAMATIONS.

[L.S.]

No. 3.

FRANCIS HENRY MAY,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Knight 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.

Whereas it is enacted by Section 10 of the Boycott Prevention Ordinance, 1912, that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time and from time to time by Proclamation published in the Gazette to order that the operation of the said Ordinance or any part of the said Ordinance shall be suspended from such day and for such period as the Governor shall in such Proclamation determine.

Now, therefore, I, Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Knight 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, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Boycott Prevention Ordinance, 1912, and otherwise do hereby proclaim and order that the operation of the Boycott Prevention Ordinance, 1912, shall be suspended from the 7th day of February, 1913, until further notice.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hongkong, this 7th day of February, 1913.

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By Command,

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 32.-It is hereby notified that the Ngai Yuen () Club and the Yau Kee ()Club have been exempted by the Governor-in-Council from registration under the Societies Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 47 of 1911), and the names of the said clubs are hereby added to the List of Exempted Societies, published in Government Notification No. 194 of 1912, under the heading " Social (Chinese)".

No. 33.

Rule made by the Governor-in-Council under Sub-sections (a) and (b) of Section 41 of the Opium Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 23 of 1909), on the 31st day of January, 1913.

Rule No. 3 of the Rules for determining the Quality of Prepared Opium and Dross Opium to be sold by the Opium Farmer or Dross Farmer or their licensees and for deter- mining the Packages and Receptacles in which Prepared Opium and Dross Opium shall be sold to the public and the Quantities to be contained therein is hereby repealed and the following Rule is substituted therefor:-

3. The various qualities of prepared opium and dross opium shall be sold only in packages containing the weights respectively appearing in the third column of the following table, and the prepared opium or dross opium, as the case may be, contained in any package, shall be deemed to be not of the quality