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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 10, 1915. 593

Article 5.--If the Bill of Lading is to order or to bearer, the holder of the bill of lading who demands release of the goods should show on what date he obtained posses-

sion of it.

Article 6.For the effect of the laws respecting stamp taxes and registration fees the provisions of Article 22 of the Internal Regulations approved at the session of 26th June, 1915, are applicable to the decision as to the nationality of the goods.

(2) (TRANSLATION.)

Regulations drawn up by the Italian Commission of Prizes, June 26, 1915. Article 1. The Commission is convoked by the president at any time that he may consider opportune.

The secretary will keep the minutes of the sittings of the Commission.

Article 2.The Commission selects from among its members two vice-presidents. In case of absence of the president, his duties shall be performed temporarily by one of the two vice-presidents.

Article 3.--In order to adhere as far as possible to the ordinary number of seven votes, the president may replace by a supplementary number any ordinary member who is prevented from attending. In filling up the vacancy he should observe as far as possible the standard of categories referred to in article 2 of the lieutenant-general's decree of the 30th May, 1915, No. 807.

Article 4. The Ministry of Marine shall transmit to the Government Commission the acts to be submitted to the judgment of the Commission of Prizes, and shall notify the president that they have done so.

The Government commissioner may apply to any State authority, through the Ministry of Marine, for any further acts, documents or explanations which he may con- sider necessary.

Article 5.--The Government commissioner shall place the demand for the judgment in question before the Commission.

The demand must be attached to the dossier of the acts and deposited at the office of the secretary of the Commission.

Article 6.The president, by decree, records that the deposit has been made. The decree is published in the Official Gazette by the secretary, and recapitulates articles 7 and 11 of these regulations. It shall be communicated immediately through the channel of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the diplomatic agents of the States entrusted with the protection of the interested parties as noted in the dossier.

Article 7.--The acts shall remain deposited in the secretary's office for ten days, counting for the date of publication in the Official Gazette of the decree referred to in the preceding article.

This period may be fextended or shortened by the acting president either at the request of the Government commissioner or of one of the interested parties.

Article 8.---Within the period laid down by article 7, persons wishing to enter a plea against the legitimacy of the condemnation must personally, or through the intermediary of a lawyer inscribed on the roll of one of the appeal courts of the realm, furnished with a special mandate, assert their qualification and elect a domicile in Rome, notifying it at the office of the secretary of the Commission.

Parties are allowed to appear even after expiration of the period indicated above, but not later than the fifth day following the announcement that the preliminary examina- tion (instruction) referred to in article 11 has been closed. In such case parties must come into proceedings at the stage in which they then stand.

Article 9. The parties, when constituted, are at liberty to examine the acts deposited at the secretary's office, to present documents, and to put forward their requests and defence by means of memorials addressed to the president.