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2. The business tobe transactedunder this permission 
shall be limited to such operations as may be necessary 
for making the real!sable assets of the banks available 
for Meeting their liabilities, and for discharging these 
liabilities as far as may be practicable. 
3. All transactions carried out under this permission 
shall be Subject to the supervision and control of a 
person to be appointed for the purpose by the Treasury, 
who shall have absolute discretion. — 
a) To refuse to permit any payment that may appear 
to him to be contrary to the Interests of the nation. 
b) To permit any such new transactions as are in 
bis opinion necessary or desirable for the purpose 
of the transactions first mentioned in paragraph 1. 
c) To permit or to refuse to permit the completion 
of any particular transaetion whatsoever. 
4. Any assets of the bank which may remain 
undistributed after their liabilities have, so far as 
possible in the circumstances, been discharged shall 
be deposited with the Bank of England to the Order 
of the Treasury. 
The Permission granted by me on the 13th day 
of August, 1914, is hereby revoked. 
K. McKENNA, 
One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State. 
Home Office, Whitehall, September 19, 1914. 
3. Zahlungs- und Handelsverbote. 
Staatliche Überwachung. 
Proclamation relating to trading with the 
enemy No 1 (of Aug. 5th). 
Whereas etc. etc. 
We do hereby warn all persons resident, carrying 
on business, or being in Our Dominions : 
Not to supply to or obtain from the said Empire 
any goods, wares, or merchandise or to supply to or 
obtain the same from any person resident, carrying 
on business, or being therein, nor to supply to or 
obtain from any person any goods, wares, or merchan 
dise for or by way of transmission to or from the 
said Empire, or to or from any person resident, 
carrying on business or being therein, nor to trade in 
or carry any goods, wares, or merchandise destined 
for or Corning from the said Empire, or from any 
person resident, . carrying on business, or being 
therein. 
Nor to permit any British ship to leave for, 
enter, or communicate with any port or place of the 
said Empire. 
. Nor to make or enter into any new marine, life, 
fire, or other policy or contract of Insurance with or for 
the benefit of any person resident, carrying on busi 
ness, or being in the said Empire, nor under any 
existing policy or contract of Insurance to make any 
payment to or for the benefit of any such person in 
respect of any loss due to the belligerent action of 
Hiss Majesty’s forces or of those of any ally of His 
Majesty. 
Nor to enter into any new commercial, financial, 
or other contract or Obligation with or for the benefit 
of any person resident, carrying on business or being 
in the said Empire. 
And We do hereby further warn all persons that 
whoever in contrevention of the law shall commit, 
aid, or ab et any of the aforesaid acts will be liable 
to such penalties as the law provides. 
And We hereby declare that any transactions to, 
with or for the benefit of any person resident, carrying 
on business, or being in the said Empire which are not 
treasonable and are not for the time being expressly 
prohibited by üs either by virtue of this Proclamation 
or otherwise, and which but for the existence of the 
state of war aforesaid would be lawful, are hereby 
permitted. 
And We hereby declare that the expresssion 
“person” in this Proclamation shall include any body 
of persons corporate or unincorporate, and that where 
any person had, or has an Interest in houses or bran- 
ches of business in some other country as well as in 
Our Dominions, or in the said Empire (as the case 
may be), this Proclamation shall not apply to the 
trading or commercial intercourse carried on by such 
person solely from or by such houses or branches of 
business in such other country. 
Given etc. etc. this fifth day of August 1914. 
Proclamation extending to Austria-Hungary 
the Scope of certain existing Prodamations 
and a certain Order in Council connected with 
the war. 
Whereas etc. etc. 
1. The Proclamation warning all Our Subjects and 
all persons resident or being in Our Dominions from 
contributing to, or participating in or assisting in the 
floating of, any loan raised on behalf of the German 
Government, or from advaneing money to or entering 
into any contract or dealings whatsoever with the 
said Government, or otherwise aiding, abetting, or assis 
ting the said Government, shall be deemed as from 
this date to apply to all loans raised on behalf of, or 
contracts or dealings entered into with, or to aiding, 
abetting, or assisting the Austro-Hungarian Govern 
ment. 
2. The Proclamation on Trading with the Enemy 
shall be deemed as from this date to prohibit with 
the Dual-Monarchy of Austria-Hungary all commer 
cial intercourse, which under the said Proclamation 
is prohibited with the German Empire, and for this 
purpose such Proclamation shall be read as if trough- 
out the operative portion thereof, the words “either 
the German Empire or the Dual-Monarchy of Austria- 
Hungaiy” were substituted for the words “the German 
Empire”.