51124-1917-PROCLAMATION — Page 12

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 20, 1917.

majority thereof does or does not assent to the suspension; and if the Governor thereupon proceed to such suspension, he shall transmit the report of the Committee and the evidence taken by it, together with the Minutes of the proceedings of the Council, to Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State by the earliest opportunity. But if in any case the interests of Our service shall appear to the Governor to demand that a person shall cease to exercise the powers and functions of his office instantly, or before there shall be time to take the proceedings hereinbefore directed, he shall then interdict such person from the exercise of the powers and functions of his office,

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XXXIV. Whenever any offender shall have been condemned by Regulation of the sentence of any Court in the Colony to suffer death, the Governor power of pardon in shall call upon the Judge who presided at the trial to make to him a written Judge's report report of the case of such offender, and shall cause such report to be taken to be laid into consideration at the first meeting of the Executive Council which may Council. be conveniently held thereafter, and he may cause the said Judge to be specially summoned to attend at such meeting and to produce his notes thereat. The Governor shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender unless it shall appear to him expedient so to do, upon receiving the advice of the Executive Council thereon; but in all such cases he is to decide Governor to take either to extend or to withhold a pardon or reprieve, according to his own council in such deliberate judgment, whether the Members of the Executive Council concur cases. therein or otherwise, entering, nevertheless, on the Minutes of the Executive May exercise his

own judgment; Council a Minute of his reasons at length, in case he should decide any entering his reasons such question in opposition to the judgment of the majority of the Members on Council Minutes, thereof.

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if unable to accept the advice of the majority.

XXXV. The Governor shall punctually forward to Us from year to Blue Book. year, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, the annual book of returns for the Colony, commonly called the Blue Book, relating to the Revenue and Expenditure, Defence, Public Works, Legislation, Civil Establishments, Pensions, Population, Schools, Course of Exchange, Imports and Exports, Agriculture, Produce, Manufactures, and other matters in the said Blue Book more particularly specified, with reference to the state and condition of the Colony.

XXXVI. The Governor shall not upon any pretence whatever quit the Governor's absence. Colony without having first obtained leave from Us for so doing under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.

XXXVII. In these Our Instructions the term "the Governor" shall, Term "the Governor " unless inconsistent with the context, include every person for the time explained. being administering the Government of the Colony.

Given at Our Court at Saint James's, this Fourteenth day of February, 1917, in the Seventh year of Our Reign.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 161.

Order made by the Governor in Council under Sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No. 4 of 1916, on the 19th day of April, 1917.

The list which was published in the Gazette of the 21st July, 1916, of persons and bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, with whom trading is prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamation, Hongkong, 1916, No. 3, and