and those parts or accessories of automobiles of which the impor tation is prohibited. In these cases applications for import licences should be made by the consignee to the competent authorities in France.

Form of Application for Licence to Import into France or

Algeria.

I, the undersigned (here give name, business, and address), request that the importation into France (or Algeria) of the goods which are designated below, and which I declare to be of British production or manufacture, may be allowed.

Name, business and address of consignor...

Name, business and address of actual consignee..

Port of discharge in France (or Algeria)

Description of goods.....

(This description is to be given in both English and French.) Place of production or manufacture.........

Number of packages, marks and numbers thereon..

Weight of the packages..

Date.......

Signature...

NOTE. This application, with the attestation by a Chamber of Commerce as to the origin of the goods appended thereto, must be forwarded to the Board of Trade, Gwydyr House, Whitehall, London, S.W.

Board of Trade, September 2nd, 1916.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL applying the Colonial Probates Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict., c. 6), to the Nyasaland Protectorate. Windsor, September 7, 1916.

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 7th day of

September, 1916.

PRESENT THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Lord President.

Sir Maurice de Bunsen.
Sir Francis Hopwood.

Lord Emmott. WHEREAS by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1890 and 1913," it is, among other things, provided that it shall be lawful for His Majesty in Council, by Order, to direct that the Colonial

*For the purpose of these import licences, goods are regarded as 'British when the place of production or manufacture is situated either in the United Kingdom or in a British Dominion, Colony, or Protectorate.

Probates Act, 1892,* shall extend, with or without any exceptions, adaptations, or modifications, in the Order mentioned, to any Foreign Country in which for the time being His Majesty has jurisdiction, and that thereupon that Act shall, to the extent of that jurisdiction, operate as if that country were a British Possession, and as if His Majesty in Council were the Legislature of that Possession:

And whereas by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance and other lawful means, His Majesty The King has power and jurisdiction in the Nyasaland Protectorate;

And whereas His Majesty The King is satisfied that the Legislature of the said Protectorate has made adequate provision for the recognition therein of Probates and Letters of Administration granted by the Courts of the United Kingdom:

And whereas it is expedient that "The Colonial Probates Act, 1892," should be extended to the said Protectorate:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1890 and 1913," or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that "The Colonial Probates Act, 1892," shall, from the date of this Order, apply to the Nyasaland Protectorate, as though the said Protectorate were a British Pos

session.

And the Right Honourable Andrew Bonar Law, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary instructions herein accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Portuguese List of Contraband.-London, September 7, 1916.1

Foreign Office, September 7, 1916.

THE Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from His Majesty's Minister at Lisbon the following translation of a Decree dated the 14th August, 1916, and published in the Portuguese Official Gazette of the same date, declaring certain goods to be contraband under certain conditions :—

Art. 1. The goods enumerated in the List annexed to this Decree are declared to be contraband of war when they come under the conditions provided for in the following Articles :

2. The goods mentioned in the preceding Article are considered contraband of war when they are destined, either directly or indirectly, to enemy territory or their allies' territory.

* Vol. LXXXIV, page 700.

t "London Gazette," September 8, 1916.

3. Besides goods the enemy destination of which is clearly shown by documents, those which are carried by vessels bound to or calling at enemy ports or ports of their allies shall be considered as directly destined to enemy territory.

4. Goods are considered as directly destined to enemy territory:

(a.) when they are destined to neutral ports, but consigned to the enemy or their allies, to their agents or recognised intermediaries, or to persons acting under their orders or directions, or who may be under their influence;

(b.) when they are destined to neutral ports, not comprised in the preceding sub-clause, but whose final destination to enemy territory may be deduced from the evident deviation from her normal course of the conveying vessel, or when it is proved by any other means.

§1. The conveyance of goods to a country adjacent to enemy territory or from which it is notorious that the latter obtains supplies of merchandise which the importing country in question has already imported in quantities exceeding its highest imports for the last three years, shall be considered as a well-founded assurance of the above enemy destination.

5. Besides any other goods which shall be considered as such, the following shall always be considered as legitimate prizes:

(a.) Ships carrying contraband of war the value, weight, size or freight of which amounts to more than half the value, weight, size or freight of their cargo;

(b.) Ships on their return voyage after having carried contraband in the manner described in the preceding sub-clause;

(c.) Ships not included in sub-sections (a.) and (b.) habitually employed in contraband traffic or other traffic which may be qualified as that of rendering assistance to the enemy;

(d.) Ships of enemy ownership, which by their build, armament or internal disposition and fittings, may be converted into ships of war.

6. Goods not considered contraband of war, but being actually the property of the enemy or their allies, may be seized whilst on board neutral ships whatever port they may be bound to, and shall be deposited and dealt with in accordance with the terms of the Decree No. 2350 of the 20th April, 1916,* and other enactments in force.

7. In other cases which have not been provided for in this decree or other national legislation in force, the provisions bearing on the subject contained in the legislation of the Allied Nations, as well as the general principles of Public International Law, shall be applicable.

8. The present decree shall come into force immediately, and all legislation contrary thereto is hereby revoked. Seat of the Government of the Republic.

14th August, 1916.

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List Referred to in Article I of the Decree No. 2567.

1. Acetones, and raw and finished materials usable for their preparation.

2. Acetic acid and acetates; hydrochloric acid.

3. Aircraft of all kinds, including aeroplanes, airships, balloons, and their component parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in connection with aircraft.

4. Caustic alkalis.

5. Rangefinders and their component parts.

6. Wood tar and wood tar oil.

7. Methyl and ethyl alcohol.

8. Cotton, raw, cotton wool, and other vegetable fibres and their respective yarns and waste.

9. Aluminium, alumina and salts of aluminium.

10. Asbestos.

11. Starch.

12. Ammonia and its salts; urea; aniline, its components and derivatives.

13. Animals, saddle, draught or pack.

14. Antimony, sulphides and oxides of antimony.

15. Barbed and other wire, and implements for fixing and cutting barbed wire.

16. Arms of all kinds, including arms for sporting purposes and their component parts; artillery material, including component parts and accessories.

17. Harness and saddles of all kinds.

18. Arsenic and its compounds; boron and its compounds; chlorine; chlorides and chlorate of sodium; iodine and its compounds; sulphur; sulphurous anhydride; phosphorus and its compounds.

19. Articles of clothing and of military equipment.

20. Bladders, guts, and sausage skins.

21. Field glasses, telescopes, telemeters, chronometers and nautical instruments of all kinds.

22. Carbon disulphide.

23. Rubber, gutta percha and similar substances, including raw, reclaimed, waste, solutions and jellies and goods made wholly or partly of rubber or gutta percha.

24. Calcium carbide.

25. Maps and plans of any place within the territory of any belligerent or within the area of military operations, on a scale of 1/250000 or any larger scale, and reproductions on any scale, by photography, or otherwise, of such maps or plans.

26. Casein.

27. Celluloid.'

28. Paraffin wax.

29. Armour plates.

30. Barium chlorate and perchlorate.

31. Lead, cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, tungsten, and vanadium.

32. Copper, wrought or unwrought, copper wire, alloys and compounds of copper.

33. Fuel.

34. Carbon, halogen compounds of.

35. Corundum, natural and artificial, including emery in all forms.

36. Cork and cork dust.

37. Hair, animal of all kinds, and tops, noils and yarns of animal hair.

38. Docks of all kinds, fittings and separate parts of.
39. Tin, chloride of tin.

40. Ether (acetic, sulphuric, formic).

41. Phenol and its mixtures and derivatives.
42. Horseshoes and shoeing material.

43. Field forges and their component parts.
44. Forage and feeding stuffs for animals.
45. Ramie.

46. Searchlights and their component parts. 47. Submarine sound signalling apparatus.

48. Wool, raw, combed, or carded, worsted yarns combed or carded, wool waste.

49. Iron or steel alloys, including special iron or steel containing tungsten, molybdenum, manganese, vanadium or chrome.

50. Lubricants.

51. Camp equipments and their component parts.

52. Railway material, both fixed and rolling stock, material for telegraphs, wireless telegraphy and telephones.

53. Tanning substances.

54. Mineral ores, (arsenical, chrome, lead, copper, tin, iron, manganese, nickel, zinc, and bauxite, "criolite," molybdenite, scheelite and wolframite).

55. Naphthaline and its mixtures and derivatives.

56. Vessels and boats of all kinds and their component parts. 57. Mineral oils and spirits, mineral oils unpurified, distilled, petroleum, benzine, naphtha and their mixtures and derivatives, and essences in general which may be used for

motors.

58. Bones in any form, whole or crushed, and bone ash. 59. Gold and silver, in bars or in coin; paper money; bonds of the Public Debt and other negotiable securities.

60. Skins and hides of all kinds, raw or tanned; dressed leather suitable for saddlery, military boots or military clothing; leather packing, valves and belting.

61. Powders and explosives of all kinds and the raw materials for their manufacture, such as nitric acid and nitrates, sulphuric acid, glycerine, products from the fractional distillation of