bromine; phosgene (carbonyl-chloride); stannic chloride; mercury; asphalt; mineral pitch; pitch; tar, including wood-tar, wood-tar oil; benzol, toluol, xylol, solvent naphtha, phenol (carbolic acid), cresol, naphthalene and their mixtures and derivatives; aniline and its derivatives; glycerine; dioxide of manganese; oxalic acid and oxalic acid salts.

(4.) Cannon barrels, gun mountings, limbers, munition waggons, field kitchens and bakeries, supply waggons, field forges, searchlights, searchlight accessories and their component parts.

(5.) Range-finders and their component parts.

(6.) Binoculars, telescopes, chronometers, nautical and artillery instruments of all kinds.

(7.) Clothing and equipments of a recognisably military character.

(8.) Saddle, draught and pack animals, suitable at present or in the future for use in war.

(9.) All kinds of harness of a distinctively military character.

(10.) Articles of camp equipment and their component parts.

(11.) Armour plates.

(12.) Steel and iron wire; barbed wire, as well as implements for fixing and cutting the same.

(13.) Sheets, tinned or galvanised.

(14.) Warships and other vessels of war, as well as component parts of such a nature that they can be used only on a vessel of war; ship plates and ship construction steel. (15.) Submarine sound-signalling apparatus.

(16.) Airships and aeroplanes of all kinds and their component parts, together with accessories, articles and materials for use in connection with aerial navigation; goldbeaters' skin.

(17.) Photographic articles.

(18.) Tools and appliances designed exclusively for the manufacture and repair of arms and war material.

(19.) Lathes, machinery and tools used in the manufacture of munitions of war.

(20.) Electrical articles designed for use in war, and their constituent parts.

(21.) Mining timber, including undressed and partly dressed timber for mining purposes, rattan, bamboo, cork, including cork flour.

(22.) Coal and coke, including pitch coke and petrol coke. (23.) Flax, hemp, jute, ramie, esparto grass, cocoa-nut fibre, kapok, vegetable fibres and yarns and rope-strands made therefrom.

(24.) Wool and animal hair of all sorts; the same in its

various stages of manufacture up to and including yarn, and the waste products of manufacture.

(25.) Raw cotton, linters, cotton waste, cotton yarns, cotton goods, rags, waste and artificial cotton.

(26.) Barrels and tanks of all kinds and their component parts.

(27.) Gold, silver, paper money, securities, negotiable trade papers, every kind of cheque, draft, order of payment, dividend coupons, interest and annuity certificates, letters of credit, of transfer and of advice, notifications of credit and debit or other documents which, whether in themselves or on completion or by virtue of any operation on the part of the recipient, empower, confirm or effect the transfer of sums of money, credits or securities.

(28.) Rubber tyres for motor vehicles, as well as all articles and materials used specially in manufacturing or repairing rubber tyres.

(29.) Rubber (including crude rubber, waste rubber, reclaimed rubber, rubber solution, rubber cement, or any other preparation containing rubber), balata and guttapercha, as well as the following kinds of rubber-viz., Borneo, Guayule, Jelutong, Palembang, and all other materials containing rubber; besides articles which are made in whole or in part of rubber.

(30.) Mineral oils (including shale oils, petroleum, benzine, naphtha, gasoline). (31.) Lubricants.

(32.) Tanning material of all kinds, including quebracho wood and the extracts used in tanning.

(33.) Hides of cattle, buffaloes and horses;

hides of

calves, pigs, goats and wild animals; and leather, dressed or undressed, if suitable for use in saddlery, harness, military boots and military clothing; beltings, hydraulic leather and pump leather.

(34.) The following ores:-Tungsten ores, molybdenite, manganese ore, nickel ore, chrome ore, zinc ore, lead ore, hæmatite iron ore, pyrites (crude and calcined), copper ores, cadmium ore, vanadium ore and cobalt ore.

(35.) Aluminium, its alloys and compounds, argillaceous earth, bauxite.

(36.) Arsenic and antimony, and their compounds.

(37.) Felspar, borax, boracic acid and other boric compounds, borax-bearing earths and minerals (borax lime and boraxite).

(38.) The following metals:-Tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, nickel, selenium, cobalt, hæmatite pig iron, manganese and its alloys, copper and its alloys, tin, lead, zine; cadmium and its alloys; zirconium, cerium, thorium

and their alloys and compounds;

oxide of zirconium, monazite sand; platinum, osmium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium and their alloys and compounds.

(39.) Alloys of iron (ferro compounds), including tungsten, manganese, vanadium and chrome iron.

(40.) Insulating material, raw and manufactured.
(41.) Silk of all kinds and silk stuffs;

artificial silk and goods made therefrom.
(42.) All kinds of wax; sebacic acid.
(43.) Quillaia bark.

silk cocoons;

(44.) Talc, emery, corundum, carborundum, and all other polishing materials, natural and artificial, and articles prepared therefrom. Diamonds for industrial purposes.

(45.) Albumen.

(46.) Glass and glass articles of every kind. All kinds of bottles.

(47.) Lime, chalk, chloride of lime, lead powder, soda and caustic soda.

(48.) Strontium and barium salts.

(49.) Bone charcoal.

(50.) Graphite of all sorts whether in lumps or ground; graphite crucibles and the shards thereof, Atcheson's graphite, electrodes and fragments thereof.

23. The following articles and materials suitable for warlike as well as for peaceful purposes shall be considered as contraband of war under the designation conditional contraband:

(1.) Foodstuffs.

(2.) Forage and all kinds of feeding-stuffs for animals; oil seeds, nuts and kernels; animal, fish and vegetable oils and fats, excluding those suitable as lubricants, and not including volatile oils; yeast.

(3.) The following articles, if suitable for use in war: articles of clothing, fabrics for clothing, footgear, skins and furs which can be used for clothing, boots and shoes.

(4.) Vehicles of all kinds and their component parts, as well as accessories (especially all motor vehicles), suitable for use in war.

(5.) Railway materials, both fixed and roiling stock, and materials for telegraphs, wireless telegraphs and telephones. (6.) Fuel, exclusive of coals, coke and mineral oils. (7.) Horseshoes and shoeing materials.

(8.) Harness and saddlery.

(9.) Ships, boats and floating craft of all kinds, floating docks and appliances for dry docks, as well as their component parts.

(10.) Cement.

(11.) All kinds of timber, rough or worked (especially [1917-18. cxI.]

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hewn, sawn, planed, grooved), excepting mining timber, &c. [See Article 21, under (21).]

(12.) Sponges, raw or prepared.

(13.) Glue, gelatine and materials used in their manufacture.

(17.) Copper vitriol.

(18.) Lathes and such machines and tools as are used principally for the manufacture and repair of arms and war inaterial.

27. The following articles cannot be declared contraband

of war:

(1.) Hops.

(2.) Horns, bones and ivory.

(3.) Natural and artificial fertilisers, in so far as specified substances have not already been expressly declared contraband.

(4.) Earths, stones including marble, bricks, slates and roofing tiles.

(5.) Paper and the materials prepared for its manufacture, in so far as specified substances have not already been expressly declared contraband.

(6.) Colours, including the materials exclusively used for their manufacture, with the exception of paint for ships' hulls; varnish.

(7.) Sulphate of soda in cakes.

(8.) Machinery specially adapted for agriculture and for printing.

(9.) Precious stones, excepting diamonds used for industrial purposes [see Article 21, under (44)]; semiprecious stones, pearls, mother of pearl and corals.

(10.) Steeple and wall clocks, timepieces and watches, excepting chronometers.

(11.) Fashion and fancy goods.

(12.) Feathers of all kinds.

(13.) Articles of domestic furniture and decorative articles for domestic purposes; office furniture and appliances.

This Ordinance shall take effect from the day of its promulgation.

Chief Headquarters, June 25, 1917.

WILHELM.

VON CAPELLE.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL making provision for Appeals to His Majesty in Council from the Supreme Court of Nigeria.-London, August 22, 1917.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 22nd day of August, 1917.

PRESENT THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. •

Lord President.

Lord Chamberlain.

Lord Newton.
Sir Albert Stanley.

Mr. G. H. Roberts:

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the 15th day of February, 1909, provision was made for appeals from the Supreme Court of Judicature for the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria to His late Majesty King Edward the Seventh in Council;

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 17th day of May, 1909, provision was made for appeals from the Supreme Court of Judicature for the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria to His late Majesty King Edward the Seventh in Council;

And whereas by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date the 29th day of November, 1913, it was provided that His Majesty's Colony of Southern Nigeria should be known. as the Colony of Nigeria, and provision was made for the Government thereof;

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 22nd day of November, 1913,* and known as "The Nigeria Protectorate Order in Council, 1913," the Protectorates of Southern Nigeria and Northern Nigeria were formed into one Protectorate under the name of the Protectorate of Nigeria, and the limits of the said Protectorate were thereby defined, and provision was made for the administration thereof;

And whereas by the aforesaid letters patent of the 29th day of November, 1913, provision was made for the constitution of a Legislative Council for the Colony of Nigeria, and for the definition of the powers of the said Council;

And whereas by the Nigeria Protectorate Order in Council, 1913, it was ordered that the Governor and Commander-in-chief for the time being of the Colony of Nigeria should be Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Protectorate of Nigeria;