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THE HONGKOŊO GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 17, 1914.

13. Medals conferred by Private Societies or Institutions and Commemorative Medals may be accepted without permission, but none of these Medals can be worn.

14. The King's permission must be obtained for any other Medal to be worn. permission is needed to accept a Foreign Medal if it is not intended to be worn.

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15. His Majesty will not grant permission to wear any Foreign War Medal if the per- son on whom it is to be or has been conferred was during the war acting in contravention of the Foreign Eulistment Act.

Foreign Office, March 10, 1914.

No. 261.

Circular.

DOWNING STREET,

11th June, 1914.

SIR,--With reference to my Circular despatch of the 29th of May, 1913, I have the honour to transmit, for your information, a copy of an Order of His Majesty in Council of the 14th of May, 1914, entitled "The Seal Fisheries (Crown Colonies and Protectorates) Order in Council 1914" which amends "the Seal Fisheries (Crown Colonies and Protec- torates) Order in Council 1913" of which copies accompanied the despatch above referred to.

I have, &c.,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

L. HARCOURT.

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AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE 14TH DAY OF MAY, 1914.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

EARL BEAUCHAMP

MASTER OF THE HORSE

LORD CHAMBERLAIN

WHE

SIR JOSHUA WILLIAMS LORD JUSTICE PICKFORD SIR ARTHUR CHANNELL.

HEREAS by the Seal Fisheries (Crown Colonies and Protectorates) Order in Council, 1913, hereinafter called the Principal Order, provision was made for applying Sections 3 and 4 of the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912, to certain Colonies and Protectorates, including the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate, the Solomon Islands Protectorate, and the Somaliland Protectorate, and to Cyprus and to Zanzibar (all of which Colonies and Protectorates and Cyprus and Zanzibar were thereinafter referred to as "Territories affected"):

And whereas by Article 4 of the Principal Order it was directed that the said Order should be published in the Government Gazette of each of the Territories affected other than Zanzibar, and should thereupon come into operation in such Territory:

And whereas there is no Government Gazette in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Pro- tectorate, or in the Solomon Islands Protectorate, or in the Somaliland Protectorate:

And whereas it is expedient to amend the Principal Order so as to make proper provi sion for bringing the said Order into operation in the said Protectorates :

NOW, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912, the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-