THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 10, 1933.
No. 147.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 10 of 1899. (MERCHANT SHIPPING).
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 32 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, the Governor in Council hereby rescinds Table P in the Schedule to the Mer- chant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, amended as appears in Gov- ernment Notifications No. 49 of 1929 and No: 707 of 1930, and substitutes the following Table therefor with effect from midnight on the 31st day of March, 1933: ----
TABLE P.
Light dues.
1. All ships, other than river steamers, which enter the waters of the Colony, except British and foreign ships of war and all vessels of less than 20 tons, shall pay the following dues, viz:
Two and four-tenths cents per ton.
2. Such dues shall be paid at the Harbour Master's Office at the time of entry.
3. All river steamers which enter the waters of the Colony by day or by night, shall pay nine-tenths of a cent per ton.
4. Upon the ascertainment of the amount, in dollars and decimals thereof, of any such dues the dollars and decimals of the amount so ascertained shall be deemed to be conventional dollars reckoned as the equivalent of one shilling and eight pence sterling; and consequently to arrive at the actual amount payable in Hong Kong currency the conventional dollar 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
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
9th March, 1953.
D. W. TRATMAN,
Clerk of Councils.
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