execute for and on behalf of the Governor during such absence, but no longer, all such powers and authorities by this Order in Council or otherwise vested in the Governor as shall in and by such instrument be specified and limited, but no others. Every such deputy shall conform to and observe all such instructions as the Governor shall from time to time address to him for his guidance. Provided nevertheless that by the appointment of a deputy or deputies as aforesaid the power and authority of the Governor shall not be abridged, altered or in any way affected otherwise than His Majesty may at any time hereafter think proper to direct.

'12. Whenever the office of Governor is vacant, or if the Governor is absent from the Protectorate, or becomes incapable, or is from any cause prevented from acting in the duties of his office, then such person as may be appointed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, or if there be no such person so appointed, or if such person be absent from Nigeria or unable to act, then the senior member of the Executive Council present for the time being in Nigeria shall during His Majesty's pleasure, administer the government of the Protectorate, first taking the oath hereinbefore directed to be taken by the Governor, and in the manner herein prescribed, which being done, the acting Governor is hereby authorised, empowered, and commanded to do and execute, during His Majesty's pleasure, all things that belong to the office of Governor according to the tenour of this Order and according to His Majesty's instructions and the laws of the Protectorate; provided that the Governor, whenever and so often as he is in the Colony, or on a passage between any places in Nigeria, or is in any of the territories adjacent to or near to Nigeria in the exercise or discharge of any powers or duties conferred or imposed upon him by us, shall not be considered to be absent from the Protectorate within the meaning of this Order in Council."

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3. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1917, and shall be published in the Government Gazette,' and the Governor shall give directions for the publication of this Order at such places, and in such a manner, and for such time or times as he thinks proper for giving due publicity thereto within the Protectorate of Nigeria.

4. His Majesty may from time to time revoke, alter, add to, or amend this Order.

And the Right Honourable Walter Hume Long, one of His Majesty's Frincipal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

J. C. LEDLIE.

ACT of the British Parliament to prohibit the alteration, except with the consent of the Board of Trade, of Articles of Association or Regulations which restrict Foreign Interests in Companies, and for other purposes connected therewith.

[7 & 8 Geo. V, c. 18]

[May 24, 1917.]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1.-(1.) Where any provision in the articles of association of a registered company is designed to restrict or limit, or has the effect of restricting or limiting, the proportion or amount of the capital of the company or of the voting power in the company, or of the control upon the Board of the company which may be held or exercised by or on behalf of aliens, or is otherwise designed to restrict or limit, or has the effect of restricting or limiting, the interests or authority of aliens in the company or the control of the company by aliens, an alteration of that provision shall not be of any effect, notwithstanding anything in any other Act, until it has received the written consent of the Board of Trade.

(2.) The decision of the Board of Trade as to whether an alteration of a provision requires the consent of the Board under this Act or not shall be final and conclusive.

(3.) This Act shall apply to any regulations or provisions in the nature of regulations affecting an incorporated company, not being a registered company, which can be altered by the company, in the same manner as it applies to the articles of association of a registered company.

(4.) In this Act the expression registered company means a company as defined by section 285 of "The Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908," and the expression alien" includes any body corporate not incorporated in some part of His Majesty's Dominions and any class of aliens.

2. The following provisions shall apply to every company in whose articles of association is contained any provision such as mentioned in section 1 (1) of this Act:

(1.) A resolution for the voluntary winding-up of the company shall be of no effect unless the Board of Trade in its discretion authorises or ratifies it by a written consent.

(2.) The Court which has jurisdiction to wind up the company may in its discretion refuse to make a winding-up

(3.) In the exercise of its discretion the Board of Trade or the Court, as the case may be, shall be guided by the consideration whether the winding-up is bona fide with a view to the discontinuance of the undertaking, or is with a view to continuing the undertaking free from any restrictions or limitations such as are mentioned in section 1 (1) of this Act which are contained in the company's articles of association or any of such restrictions or limitations.

(4.) The Board of Trade in giving consent or the Court in making a winding-up order, as the case may be, may impose such terms or conditions for giving effect to this Act as it thinks fit.

3. This Act may be cited as "The Companies (Foreign Interests) Act, 1917."

BRITISH NOTIFICATION relative to the grant of Licences for Payments to Persons in Territory in Enemy Occupation.-London, June 2, 1917.*

WHEREAS by Proclamation dated the 9th day of September, 1914, called the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation No. 2, certain prohibitions as therein more specifically set forth were imposed upon all persons therein referred to;

And whereas by Proclamation dated the 8th day of October, 1914, the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation No. 2 was amended as therein more specifically set forth;

And whereas by Proclamation dated the 7th day of January, 1915, § the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation No. 2, as amended by the last-recited Proclamation, was amended as therein more specifically appears;

And whereas by Proclamation dated the 16th day of February, 1915, it was recited that certain territory forming part of our territory or of that of an Allied or Neutral State is or may be in the effective military occupation of an enemy, and it was provided that the Proclamations for the time being in force relating to Trading with the Enemy shall apply to territory in hostile occupation as they apply to an enemy country;

And whereas by section (4) of the last-mentioned Proclamation it is further provided that nothing in the said Proclamation shall be taken to prohibit anything which may

* "London Gazette,"

+ Vol. CVIII, page 117.
§ Vol. CIX, page 162.

June 5, 1917.

↑ Vol. CVIII, page 146.
Vol. CIX, page 212.

be expressly permitted by our licence or by a licence given on our behalf by a Secretary of State or the Board of Trade or the Lords Commissioners of our Treasury, whether such licences be specially granted to individuals or be announced as applying to classes of persons, or to prohibit any special arrangements which may be made by any such licence or otherwise with our authority for special treatment of any occupied territory or persons in any such occupied territory entitled to such special treatment;

And whereas by Proclamation dated the 14th day of September, 1915, it was declared as follows:

*

For the purposes of the Proclamations for the time being in force relating to Trading with the Enemy, the expression enemy notwithstanding anything in the said Proclamations, is hereby declared to include, and to have included, any incorporated company or body of persons (wherever incorporated) carrying on business in an enemy country or in any territory for the time being in hostile occupation;

And whereas certain portions of the territories of our Allies are in hostile occupation, and under the foregoing provisions the Trading with the Enemy Proclamations apply, and it is desirable that the licence hereinafter referred to should be granted:

Now, therefore, the Board of Trade, acting in pursuance of the powers hereinbefore referred to and of every other power them hereunto enabling, do on behalf of His Majesty grant licence to all persons or bodies of persons resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom to pay any moneys owing by them to persons or bodies of persons being persons or bodies of persons of British or Allied nationality resident or carrying on business in territory belonging to our Allies in hostile occupation not being persons or bodies of persons resident or carrying on business in enemy territory, provided that payment is made into a special account in the name of the creditor at a bank in the United Kingdom, which bank has given an undertaking that so long as the hostile occupation of the territory in which the creditor resides or carries on business continues no money will be allowed to be withdrawn from such special account except under licence given on behalf of His Majesty's Government, and no charge on the account will be allowed or recognised without such licence.

Dated this 2nd day of June, 1917.

H. LLEWELLYN SMITH,
Secretary to the Board of Trade.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Italian Revised List of Contraband.-- London, June 9, 1917.*

Foreign Office, June 9, 1917.

THE Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from His Majesty's Ambassador at Rome the following translation of the new list of absolute and conditional contraband issued by the Italian Government in April 1917. The additions to and modifications of the list subsequent to the decree of the 27th February, 1916,† and up to the 31st March, 1917, are indicated by italics :

Absolute Contraband.

1. Arms of all kinds, including arms for sporting purposes, and their component parts.

2. Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of munitions of war or for the manufacture or repair of arms or of war material, for use on land or sea.

3. Lathes and other machines or mechanical utensils which may be used in the manufacture of munitions of war.

4. Emery, corundum, natural und artificial (alundum) in all forms, and all other abrasive materials, natural and artificial, and products manufactured with these materials (3).

5. Projectiles, charges and cartridges of all kinds, and their component parts.

war.

6. Wax of any kind (2).

7. Powders and explosives specially prepared for use in

8. Materials employed in the manufacture of explosives, including nitric acid and nitrates of all kinds, sulphuric acid, smoking sulphuric acid (oleum), acetic acid and acetates, barium chlorate and perchlorate, calcium carbide, calcium nitrate and calcium acetate, potassium salts and caustic potash, salts of ammonium and ammoniac (solution), caustic soda, sodium chlorate and perchlorate, mercury benzol, toluol, xylol, solvent naphtha, phenol (carbolic acid), cresol, naphthalene and its mixtures and derivatives; aniline and its derivatives, glycerine acetones, and raw and finished materials usable for their preparation, acetic ether, alcohols, including ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol, their preparations and derivatives (3); formic ether, sulphuric ether (1), + Vol. CX, page 213. Decrees of July 16, No. 991 (Vol. CX, page 261), and December 14, 1916, No. 1803, and February 22, 1917, No. 387 (page 18).

* "London Gazette," June 9, 1917.