36144-1914-PROCLAMATION — Page 2

¡

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 4, 1914.

511

"}

The Maximum Retail Price for which "Lemons, American,-Kam Shan Ling Mung' may be sold as set out in Proclamation No. 18 of the 30th October, 1914, under the heading "Fruits" and the note at the end of the said Proclamation are hereby revoked.

No. 24.

[L.S.]

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 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which any article of food may be sold by retail and that any person who after such proclamation and until it shall have been revoked shall sell any article of food at a higher price than the prices so prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an offence against the said Order and shall on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:

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 do hereby pre- scribe that the maximum price for which the following article of food may be sold by retail shall be as follows:-

Schedule of Maximum Retail Prices.

Fruits.

Lemons, American,-Kam Shan Ling Mung, ....

Cents. each 10

NOTE.-In consideration of the loss sustained by discount on sub- sidiary coinage, payment for all articles of food not exceeding $2 in value (excepting the articles enumerated in Clause 5 in Proclamation No. 18 of the 30th October, 1914, and in the above Schedule) shall if made in subsi- diary coin be subject to an additional charge of 15%.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 4th day of December, 1914.

By Command,

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 471.-It is hereby notified that the following society has been exempted by the Governor-in-Council from registration under the Societies Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 47 of 1911), and its name is hereby added to the List of Exempted Societies, published in Government Notification No. 159 of 1914, under the following heading :-

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

26th November, 1914.

Social Clubs (Chinese). Man Han(晚閒)

M. J. BREEN,

Clerk of Councils.