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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 5, 1920.

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No. 551. The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information. It will be seen from Article 3 that the Order applies to Hongkong, subject to such modifications as may be made by the Hongkong Legislature for adapting to the circumstances of Hongkong the provisions of the Order. Such legislation will be intro- duced shortly.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 13TH DAY OF August, 1920.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS at Neuilly-sur-Seine on the twenty-seventh day of November, nineteen

hundred and nineteen, a Treaty of Peace (hereinafter referred to as "the Treaty") was signed on behalf of His Majesty:

And whereas by the Treaties of Peace (Austria and Bulgaria) Act, 1920, it was provided that His Majesty might make such appointments, establish such offices, make such Orders in Council and do such things as appeared to Him to be necessary for carrying out the Treaty, and for giving effect to any of the provisions of the Treaty, and that any Order in Council made under that Act might provide for the imposition by summary process or otherwise of penalties in respect of breaches of the provisions

thereof:

And whereas the Treaty contained the provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order, and it is expedient that for giving effect thereto the provisions hereinafter contained should have effect:

And whereas by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance or other lawful means His Majesty has power and jurisdiction in British Protectorates, and is pleased by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in Him by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise to extend the provisions of this Order to such Protectorates :

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :-

1. The provisions of the Treaty set out in the Schedule to this Order shall have full force and effect as law, and for the purpose of carrying out those provisions the following provisions shall have effect :--

(i) All property, rights and interests within His Majesty's Dominions or Protec- torates belonging to Bulgarian nationals at the date when the Treaty came into force (not being property, rights or interests acquired under any general licence issued by or on behalf of His Majesty), and the net proceeds of their sale, liquidation or other dealings therewith, are hereby charged--

(a) in the first place, with payment of the amounts due in respect of claims by British nationals (other than British nationals ordinarily resident in the self-governing Dominions, India and Egypt) with regard to their property, rights and interests (including companies and associations in which they are interested) in Bulgarian terri- tory, or debts owing to them by Bulgarian nationals, and with payment of any compensation awarded by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, or by an arbitrator appointed by that Tribunal, in pur- suance of paragraph (c) of Article 177 of the Treaty, and with payment of claims growing out of acts committed by the Bulgarian Government or by any Bulgariau authorities since the eleventh and before the fifteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and fifteen; and.

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