35993-1914-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

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The Hongkong Government Gazette

Extraordinary.

Published by Authority,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1914.

PROCLAMATIONS.

Proclamation No. 14 of the 18th August, 1914, is hereby cancelled and the following substituted therefor:

No. 15.

[L.S.]

FRANCIS HENRY MAY,

Governor.

By His Excelleney 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 by sub-clause 10 of Clause III of the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria-in-Council made on the 26th day of October 1896 which was proclaimed in this Colony on the 5th day of August 1914 it is enacted that the Governor may by proclamation prescribe the maximum price for which any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceed- ing 50 dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months :