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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 5, 1918.

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4. As from the date hereof Paragraph 6 of Our said Proclamation shall be numbered 8, and the figures and letters "1916, No. 3" omitted therefrom.

5. This Proclamation shall be read as one with the Trading with the Enemy (Statu- tory List) Proclamation, 1916, No. 3.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and in the Eighth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Licence to British Insurance Companies engaged in non-Enemy countries in the business of Insurance to fulfil, complete and carry into effect Fire Insurance Contracts made in such countries prior to the Sixteenth day of January, 1918, with, or through the agency of, any person or body of persons mentioned in the Statutory List.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

I, Ernest Murray Pollock, a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, one of His Majesty's Counsel, a Member of the Commons House of Parliament, Controller of the Foreign Trade Department of the Foreign Office, in pur- suance of the authority given me in this behalf by His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, hereby, on behalf of His Majesty, give and grant unto every person or body of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom, who, being engaged in any non-enemy country in the business of Insurance, did in that country prior to the 16th day of January, 1918, make any contract of Fire Insurance with, or through the agency of, any person or body of persons mentioned in the Statutory List of persons, with whom trading is forbidden by any 'roclamation issued under the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Act, 1915, full licence and authority to have commercial inter- course, and to transact all necessary business with regard to such contract and to all matters arising thereout, with, and to receive and to pay all sums of money payable under such contract from, or to, the person or body of persons with whom such contract has been made, and generally to do all things necessary for fulfilling, completing and carrying into effect such contract, in as full and ample a manner as if permission to carry on the business of fire insurance with, or through the agency of, any person or body of persons mentioned in the Statutory List had not been withdrawn by the Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamation issued on the 16th day of January, 1918.

Foreign Trade Department,

17th January, 1918.

ERNEST M. POLLOCK.

NOTE 1-The Trading with the Enemy (Statutory List) Proclamation, 1916, No. 3, and a local proclamation based on it, were published in the Hongkong Gazette of the 21st July, 1916.

NOTE 2. -A local proclamation by His Excellency the Governor based on the above proclamation of His Majesty the King, and a licence based on the above licence, are published in this issue of the Hongkong Gazette.