THE HONG KUNG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 17, 1933. 97
And whereas duties on Tobacco would be altered and would become the duties appearing in such Resolution if the same were to become law:
Now I, the Governor, under the powers conferred on me by the Public Revenue Protection Ordinance, 1927, do hereby make this Order giving the full force and effect of law to all the provisions of such Resolution as long as this Order remains in force.
W. PEEL,
Governor.
Tobacco Duties.
Resolved that the duties on Tobacco set forth in the Resolution passed by this Council on the 22nd October, 1931, and published in the Government Gazette of the 23rd October, 1931, by Government Notification No. 666 be varied and subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 6 of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1931, (Ordinance No. 39 of 1931), the duties payable
1. upon all tobacco imported into the Colony after the coming into operation of this resolution, and 2. upon all dutiable tobacco already in the Colony
at the coming into operation of this resolution shall be as stated in the following table per pound weight: Provided that the dollars and decimals thereof stated in the table shall be conventional dollars reckoned as the equivalent · of one shilling and eight pence sterling; and that consequently to arrive at the actual amount payable in Hong Kong currency the conventional dollar stated in the Table shall be multiplied by 20 and divided by a figure settled by the Colonial Treasurer from time to time representing the average opening selling rates for the previous month of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation for demand drafts on London and until so settled the figure shall be 15.40.
TABLE.
For the purpose of this Table tobacco shall be deemed to be of "Empire Origin" if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports to have been grown and consigned from the British Empire, which for the purposes of this Table shall be deemed the United Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, India including Burmah any British Colony, any territory under His Majesty's protection, the Mandated territories of Tanganyika, or Cameroons under British Mandate, or Togoland under British