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VICTORIA, THURSDAY, 4TH SEPTEMBER, 1884.

日四初月九年四十八百八千一

No. 48.

號八十四第

日五十月七年申甲

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 318.

VOL. XXX.

簿十三第

The Governor having received instructions from the Secretary of State to the effect that the

provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, 33 and 34 Victoria, Chap. 90, entitled :-

"An Act to regulate the conduct of Her Majesty's subjects during the existence of hostilities

between Foreign States with which Her Majesty is at peace

should be strictly enforced in this Colony, directs that the subjoined Copy of the Act should be published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd September, 1884.

W. H. MARSII,

Colonial Secretary.

THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT.

33 & 34 VICT., CHAP. XC.

An Act to regulate the conduct of Her Majesty's Subjects during the existence of hostilities between Foreign States with which Her Majesty is at peace.

[9th August, 1870.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the regulation of the conduct of Her Majesty's bjects during the existence of hostilities between foreign states with which Her Majesty is at peace: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the thority of the same, as follows:-

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870."

2. This Act shall extend to all the dominions of Her Majesty, including the adjacent territorial

waters.

This Act shall come into operation in the United Kingdom immediately on the passing thereof, Ashall be proclaimed in every British possession by the Governor thereof as soon as may be after ceives notice of this Act, and shall come into operation in that British possession on the day of proclamation, and the time at which this Act comes into operation in any place is, as respects place, in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act.