Part II of the Imperial Act, such fugitive or prisoner may he sent thither in any ship belonging to the Ruler of the State of Brunei or to His Britannic Majesty, or to any of their respective subjects:

Provided that any such fugitive or prisoner, being a subject of the Ruler of the State of Brunei, may be sent thither in any ship.

(ii.) For the purpose aforesaid the authority signing a warrant for the return may order the master of any ship belonging to any of such subjects bound to the British dominion to which the fugitive or prisoner is ordered to be returned to receive and afford a passage and subsistence during the voyage to such fugitive or prisoner, and to the person having him in custody, and to the witnesses, so that such master be not required to receive more than one fugitive or prisoner for every 100 tons of his ship's registered tonnage, or more than one witness for every 50 tons of such tonnage.

(iii.) The master of every ship which shall bring to any place in the State of Brunei a fugitive or prisoner to whom a passage thither on such ship has been afforded under the provisions of the Imperial Act or of a law of any British dominion relating to the return of fugitives or prisoners in pursuance of the Imperial Act shall, on arrival at such place, if such fugitive or prisoner be not in the custody of any person, cause him to be given into the custody of a police officer.

(iv.) Every master who fails, on payment or tender of a reasonable amount for expenses, to comply with an order made in pursuance of sub-section (ii), or to cause any such fugitive or prisoner as is in sub-section (iii) referred to to be given into custody as required by that sub-section, shall be liable on convicton to a fine not exceeding 400 dollars.

16. A fugitive or prisoner who is in the custody of a person acting under a warrant issued or endorsed outside the State of Brunei in pursuance of the Imperial Act, or of a law of any British dominion relating to the return of fugitives or prisoners in pursuance of the Imperial Act, and who is being returned in pursuance of the Imperial Act to a British dominion, may, for the purpose of such return, be held and conveyed in custody in and through the State of Brunei during such period as may be reasonably necessary for the said purpose.

17.—(i.) If a prisoner escape, by breach of prison or otherwise, out of the custody of a person acting under a warrant issued or endorsed in pursuance of the Imperial Act or of this Enactment, or of a law of any British dominion relating to the return of fugitives or prisoners in pursuance of the Imperial Act, he may be taken in the same manner as a person accused of an offence against the laws of the State of Brunei may be retaken upon an escape from lawful custody.

(ii.) A person guilty of the offence of escaping or attempting to escape by breach of prison or otherwise from custody under any warrant issued or endorsed in pursuance of the Imperial

Act or of this Enactment, or of a law of any British dominion relating to the return of fugitives or prisoners in pursuance of the Imperial Act, or of abetting any such offence, may, if the prisoner is being removed to or from the State of Brunei, or escapes or attempts to escape in the State of Brunei, or if the offender is found in the State of Brunei, be tried in the State of Brunei.

18. Every article found in the possession, actual or constructive, of a fugitive or other person accused of an offence, at the time of his arrest, which may be material as evidence in making proof of the offence whereof he is accused, may be delivered up with the fugitive or person on his being returned, subject to all rights of third persons with regard thereto.

19. Where a person accused of an offence can by reason of the nature of the offence or the place in which it was committed or otherwise be, under the Imperial Act or this Enactment or otherwise, tried for or in respect of the offence both in the State of Brunei and also elsewhere in a British dominion, and a warrant for the apprehension of such person is issued in the State of Brunei, such person may be apprehended in the State of Brunei and returned in pursuance of the Imperial Act, notwithstanding that a Court in the State of Brunei has jurisdiction to try him.

20.-(i.) Where a person accused of an offence is in custody in the State of Brunei, and the offence is one for or in respect of which, by reason of the nature thereof or of the place in which it was committed or otherwise, a person may under the Imperial Act or otherwise be tried elsewhere in a British dominion, and a warrant is issued in accordance with the provisions of the Imperial Act directing the removal of such offender to some other British dominion in which he can be tried, the offender may be returned accordingly.

(ii.) Where in pursuance of the provisions of the Imperial Act a person accused of an offence triable in the State of Brunei is removed from any British dominion to the State of Brunei on the ground that, having regard to the place where the witnesses for the prosecution and the defence are to be found and to all the circumstances of the case, such removal is conducive to the interests of justice, such person, if not prosecuted or acquitted in the State of Brunei, may be sent back free of cost in like manner as if he had been returned to the State of Brunei in pursuance of Part I of the Imperial Act.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Form of Endorsement of Warrant.

To A.B., Deputy Commissioner of Police, and names of other particular officers] and all other police officers of the State of Brunei, and also to all the persons to whom the within warrant is directed. You are hereby

authorized to execute this warrant within the State of Brunei and to apprehend the said named herein and to bring him before the or some other Magistrate in the State of Brunei,

Magistrate at

to be dealt with according to law.

Resident.
Magistrate.

PROCLAMATION* by the High Commissioner for Cyprus relative to the British Nationality of Ottoman Subjects born and now resident in Cyprus.-Nicosia, November 5, 1914†

HAMILTON GOOLD-ADAMS, High Commissioner.

WHEREAS by an Order of His Majesty the King in Council, dated this 5th day of November, 1914, the Island of Cyprus was annexed to and declared to form part of His Majesty's Dominions, now I, Hamilton John Goold-Adams, Major in the Reserve of Officers of His Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, His Majesty's High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Cyprus, do hereby proclaim that under and by virtue of the said Order in Council the following provisions have effect:

1. Ottoman subjects born in Cyprus and now resident in Cyprus are British subjects.

2. Ottoman subjects not born in Cyprus who are now resident in Cyprus are allowed one year from the date of this Proclamation within which to leave Cyprus. Ottoman subjects mentioned in this paragraph who do not leave Cyprus within the said period of one year will on the expiration of the said period be British subjects.

Given in Nicosia this 5th day of November, 1914.

God save the King!

PROCLAMATION by the High Commissioner for Cyprus relative to the Nationality of Ottoman Subjects resident in Cyprus.-Nicosia, March 3, 1915.§

JOHN E. CLAUSON, High Commissioner.

WHEREAS by "The Cyprus (Annexation) Order in Council. 1914." the Island of Cyprus was annexed to and declared to form part of His Majesty's Dominions.

*Revoked by Proclamation of March 3, 1915.
+Cyprus Gazette," November 5, 1914.

I Vol. CVIII, page 165.

"Cyprus Gazette," March 4, 1915.

Now I, John Eugene Clauson, Major in the Reserve of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, His Majesty's High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Cyprus, do hereby proclaim that under and by virtue of the said Order in Council the following provisions have effect:

:

1. All Ottoman subjects resident in Cyprus on the 5th November, 1914, have become British subjects.

2. Any Ottoman subject resident in Cyprus on the 5th November, 1914, desiring to retain Ottoman nationality may by notice under his hand addressed to the High Commissioner elect to do so within one month of the coming into operation of this Proclamation; and any such person electing so to do must leave Cyprus within two months after the date of his election and take up his residence elsewhere, failing which he will be treated as a British subject.

3. Nothing in this Proclamation contained shall be deemed to affect the position of Ottoman subjects born in Cyprus and resident elsewhere on the 5th November, 1914, with regard to whom a further Proclamation will be issued in due course.

4. This Proclamation shall come into operation on the 4th March, 1915.

5. The Proclamation by the High Commissioner, dated the 5th November, 1914, and published in the "Cyprus Gazette (Extraordinary)," dated the 5th November, 1914, is hereby revoked.

Given in Nicosia, the 3rd day of March, 1915.

God save the King!

By his Excellency's command,

C. W. ORR, Chief Secretary to the Government.

DÉCISION du Conseil des Ministres égyptien tendant à assurer la Défense de l'Égypte dans la Guerre entre l'Allemagne et la Grande-Bretagne.- August 5, 1914.†

CONSIDÉRANT que la guerre est malheureusement déclarée entre Sa Majesté le Roi de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande et des Dépendances britanniques d'outre-mer, Empereur des Indes, et l'Empereur allemand;

Considérant que la présence en Égypte de l'Armée d'Occupation de Sa Majesté britannique rend le pays susceptible d'être attaqué par les ennemis de Sa Majesté ;

Considérant qu'à raison de cette situation de fait il est

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† Egyptian "Journal officiel," Supplement, August 6, 1914.

nécessaire que toutes les mesures puissent être prises pour défendre le pays contre le risque d'une telle attaque:

Qu'à cet effet le Gouvernement égyptien est avisé à prendre les mesures suivantes;

A ces causes, il est porté à la connaissance de tous les intéressés que dans une réunion du Conseil des Ministres, tenue le 5 août, 1914, sous la présidence de son Excellence le Régent, il a été décidé ce qui suit:

ART. 1er. Aucune personne résidant ou de passage en Égypte ne pourra tant que durera l'état de guerre :

(1.) Faire de contrat ni convention quelconque, soit directement, soit indirectement, avec le Gouvernement en guerre avec Sa Majesté britannique non plus qu'avec aucun agent de ce Gouvernement;

(2.) Ni contribuer ni prendre part à l'émission d'aucun emprunt pour ce Gouvernement, ni lui prêter de l'argent.

2. Aucune personne résidant ou de passage en Égypte ne pourra conclure de police ou contrat d'assurance avec une personne ou au profit d'une personne résidant ou de passage dans le pays en guerre avec Sa Majesté britannique, et ne pourra non plus sur la base de toute police ou contrat d'assurance déjà existant effectuer aucun paiement du chef de toute perte due aux actes de guerre des forces de Sa Majesté britannique ou de tout Allié de Sa Majesté britannique.

3. Aucune personne résidant ou de passage en Égypte ne pourra conclure de nouveau contrat ou obligation de nature commerciale, financière ou autre avec une personne ou au profit d'une personne résidant ou de passage dans le pays ci-dessus visé.

4. Les dispositions des deux articles qui précèdent s'appli queront également à toute relation avec toute personne faisant des affaires dans le pays ci-dessus visé, bien que n'y résidant pas, mais seulement pour ce qui concerne les affaires qui y sont faites.

5. Aucun navire égyptien ne devra entrer dans un port allemand ni communiquer avec lui.

6. A moins d'une autorisation délivrée par le fonctionnaire désigné à cet effet, il ne pourra être exporté d'Égypte aucun des

articles suivants :

(a.) Les armes et les munitions et toutes les parties qui les composent ;

(b.) La poudre à canon ou tout autre explosif;

(c.) Les uniformes, équipements militaires et fournitures de campement;

(d.) Les animaux de selle, de bât et de trait susceptibles d'être employés en guerre;

(e.) Les machines et camions à combustion interne capables de porter une charge de 1,250 kilog. ou davantage, ainsi que les parties qui les composent ;

(f.) Le pétrole et la benzine;

(g.) Véhicules à quatre roues capables de porter une tonne ou plus ;