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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 8, 1918.

PROCLAMATIONS.

No. 46. The following Proclamation of His Majesty the KING is published for general information :--

By the KING.

A PROCLAMATION

RELATING TO TRADING WITH CERTAIN PERSONS OF ENEMY NATIONALITY INTERNED IN NEUTRAL Countries.

GEORGE R.I.

WHEREAS it is expedient that transactions between British subjects and persons of

enemy nationality who have been removed from Our Dominions and are interned in neutral countries should be restricted in manner hereinafter provided :

Now, therefore, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, think fit to declare, and it is hereby declared, as follows:-

1. The Proclamations for the time being in force relating to Trading with the Enemy shall, as from the date of this Proclamation, apply to any persons of enemy nationality who have been removed from any part of Our Dominions for the purpose of being interned in and are interned in any neutral country, in the same manner as they apply to persons resident or carrying on business in an enemy country.

2. Nothing in this Proclamation shall be taken to prohibit anything which may be specially permitted by Our licence or by a licence given on Our behalf by the Lords Commissioners of Our Treasury or the Board of Trade.

3. This Proclamation may be cited as the Trading with the Enemy (Enemy Subjects interned in Neutral Countries) Proclamation, 1917.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and in the Eighth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

NOTE 1.-The following is a list of the various proclamations which have been issued relating to Trading with the Enemy :-

Date of Hongkong Gazette.

No.

Date of Proclamation.

6th August, 1914

Remarks.

Loans.

10

5th August, 1914 5th August, 1914 9th September, 1914 30th September, 1914

8th October, 1914 26th October, 1914 16th February, 1915 25th June, 1915 14th September, 1915 10th November, 1915 27th November, 1917

6th August, 1914 6th October, 1914 11th December, 1914

4th December, 1914 11th December, 1914 23rd April, 1915 29th June, 1915 29th October, 1915

7th January, 1916 8th January, 1918

Revoked.

Principal proclamation.

Revoked.

Amending. Sugar.

Occupied territory. China, Siam, etc. Corporate bodies. Liberia, etc.

Interned enemy subjects.

NOTE 2.--A list of the various licences which have been issued in the United Kingdom and in this Colony relating to the registration of patents, trade marks and designs was published as a note to Proclamation No. 12 in the Hongkong Gazette of the 30th November, 1917.

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