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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 6, 1914.

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7. Nothing in this proclamation shall be taken to prohibit anything which shall be expressly permitted by our licence, or by the licence given on our behalf by a Secretary of State, or the Board of Trade, whether such licences be especially granted to individuals or be announced as applying to classes of persons.

8. This proclamation shall be called "The Trading with the Enemy Proclamation

No. 2".

6th October, 1914.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 381.-His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:

Ordinance No. 25 of 1914.-An Ordinance for the more effectual preventing and further punishment of the offence of trading with the enemy.

HONGKONG.

No. 25 OF 1914.

An Ordinance for the more effectual preventing and further punishment of the offence of trad- ing with the enemy.

I assent to this.Ordinance.

LS

F. H. MAY, Governor.

[6th October, 1914.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trading with Short title. the Enemy Ordinance, 1914.

2.-(1.) Every person who during the continuance of Penalty of

imprison- the present war between His Majesty and Germany or ment and during the continuance of the present war between His fine for Majesty and Austria-Hungary trades with the enemy, and trading with every person who since the fourth day of August, 1914, the enemy. has traded with the enemy, shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable upon summary con- viction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months and to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or upon conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years and to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars.

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