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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 27, 1918. 407:

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 372.

Order made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council under sections 3 and 1 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, Ordinance No. 32 of 1915, on the 26th day of September, 1918.

Rule 41 which was published in the Gazette of the 18th August, 1916, and which was amended in the Gazettes of the 19th October, 1917, and the 5th July, 1918, is further amended by the deletion of paragraph (4) and by the substitution therefor of the follow- ing paragraph:---

(4) Goods marked (1), to all ports and destinations other than ports and desti- uations in the United Kingdom, British Possessions and Protectorates, France and French Possessions, and Italy and Italian Possessions.

A. D. BALL,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCH. CHAMBER,

26th September, 1918.

NOTE (1)See the Gazette of the 5th July, 1918.

NOTE (2)-Rule 41 (Military Stores) was published in the Gazette of the 18th August, 1916, and amended in the Gazettes of the 19th October, 1917, and the 5th July and 27th September, 1918. Amendments of the schedule to that rule were published in various numbers of the Gazette, and a. consolidating schedule was published in the Gazette of the 10th August, 1917.

The prohibitions now in force are contained in the notifications published on the following

dates:

10th August, 1917. 7th September, 1917. 21st September, 1917. 19th October, 1917. 23rd November, 1917. 11th January, 1918.

1st March,

1918.

8th March, 1918.

22nd March,

1918.

12th April,

1918.

10th May.

1918.

23rd May,

1918.

28th June,

1918.

26th July,

1918.

23rd August,

1918.

20th September, 1918.

A complete list of notifications issued up to the end of 1917 was contained in Note (2) to Notifi- cation No. 8 of 1918, which was published in the Gazette of the 11th January, 1918.

NOTE (3):--Rule 37, published in the Gazette of the 8th December, 1916, prohibits the exportation of silver dollars and silver bullion, and Rule 38, published in the Gazette of the 4th May, 1916, prohibits the exportation of Chinese cash except to China.

NOTE (4).There are special restrictions on exportation to Switzerland. See Notification No. 535 which was published in the Guzelte of the 7th December, 1917, and the Proclamation of the 25th June, 1918, which was published in the London Gazette of that date.

NOTE (5). The exportation of the goods mentioned in the above Schedule is prohibited as follows:-

(1) Goods marked (A), to all destinations;

(2) Goods marked (B), to all ports and destinations abroad other than ports and destina-

tions in the United Kingdom and British Possessions and Protectorates;

(3) Goods marked (c), to all destinations in European and Asiatic Russia and in other foreign countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean, except France and French Possessions, Italy and Italian Possessions, Spain and Portugal, and to all ports in any such foreign countries;

(4) Goods marked (D), to all ports and destinations other than ports and destinations in the United Kingdom, British Possessions and Protectorates, France and French Possessions, and Italy and Italian Possessions ;

(5) Goods marked (E), to all ports and destinations other than ports and destinations in

the United Kingdom;

(6) Goods marked (F), to all ports and destinations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the

Netherlands.

NOTE (6).--Application may be made to the Superintendent of Imports and Exports for informa- tion as to the conditions on which special licences will be granted for the exportation of prohibited articles.