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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 21, 1916.

on Our behalf by a Secretary of State or by any person authorized in that behalf by a Secretary.of State whether such Licence be specially granted to an individual or be announced as applying to classes of persons.

6. This Proclamation shall be called "The Trading with the Enemy (Statutory

List) Proclamation, 1916, No. 3."

(Here follows the list which is embodied in the Proclamation No. 21 of His Excellency the Governor which is published in this issue of the Hongkong Government Gazette.)

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and in the Seventh year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

NOTE (1). Under the Trading with the Enemy Proclamations of 25 June, and 10 November, 1915, all Proclamations relating to Trading with the Enemy apply to all persons or bodies of persons of enemy nationality, resident or carrying on business in Persia, Morocco or Portuguese East Africa, and consequently it is an offence to trade with any person or body of persons of enemy nationality resident or carrying on business in Persia, Morocco or Portuguese East Africa, even though such person or body of persons is not included by name in the above list, and the omission of the name of any such person or body of persons from such list is not an authority or license to trade with such person or body of persons.

NOTE (2).Where a firm named in the List has more than one branch in the same country, all branches in that country are held to be included in the List, even in cases where no address, or of several addresses one only is specifically mentioned.

NOTE (3).--The List for each country is sent by telegraph to His Majesty's Representative in that country, who will notify British Consular Officers, to whom persons abroad may apply for information as to names in the List.

The Foreign Trade Department is prepared on application to inquire of His Majesty's Represent- atives abroad for the names of substitutes for any firm in the Statutory List. When the applicant wishes this done by telegraph he must undertake to pay the cost of the telegraphic correspondence.

No. 316. The following Proclamation of His Majesty the KING is published for general information :

By the KING.

A PROCLAMATION

RELATING TO THE IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN ARTICLES INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM.

GEORGE R.I.

THEREAS by Section forty-three of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is provided that the importation of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, or any other goods may be prohibited by Proclamation :

And whereas by various Proclamations entitled Prohibition of Import Proclamations the importation of certain goods has been prohibited accordingly :

And whereas it is expedient that the importation into the United Kingdom of certain other goods should be prohibited, and the existing prohibition imposed on the importation of certain goods removed :

Now, therefore, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, in pursuance of the said Act and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf, do hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows:-

(I) As from and after the Eighth day of June, 1916, subject as hereinafter provided, the importation into the United Kingdom of the following goods is hereby prohibited, viz.:

Aluminium, manufactures of.

Baths of metal.

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