THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 7, 1913.
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required by these Rules if the contents of the package, after having been dried for twelve hours at a temperature of 100 degrees Centigrade, weigh less than the weight appearing against the package in the fourth column of the following table :-
PREPARED OPIUM.
No.
Quality.
Weight. Taels,
Lowest legal weight when dried.
Taels.
1,...... 2,
1st
5.000
3.350
2·000
1.340
""
3,.....
2nd
1.000
⚫670
4,...
⚫360
•2412
""
5,......
•180
•1206
""
6,....
*069
*04623
99
7,...
⚫040
*0268
15
3,...
⚫034
'02278
17
i
9,
⚫020
⚫0134
10,....
3rd
⚫030
·0201
11,
*025
⚫01675
DROSS OPIUM,
12,......
*045
•0405
31st January, 1913.
No. 34. It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-in-Council has given directions for the rescission of Proclamation No. 6 of the 13th December, 1912, declaring the Colony subject to the provisions of Sections 7 to 14 of the Peace Preservation Ordi- nance, 1886, and that the same is hereby rescinded.
No. 35.
Regulation made by the Governor-in-l
-Council under Section 37 (3) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1899), this 7th day of February, 1913.
Table E of the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, made by the Governor-in-Council on the 4th day of February, 1908, and published in the Gazette of the 20th March, 1908, and on pages 383 to 388 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910, is hereby amended by the insertion of the following regulation, to be read after regulation 96 in the said Table :-
"9c. The owner, charterer, or master of any steamship not exceeding 60 tons in the waters of the Colony, which whether carrying passengers or not is unseaworthy or unsafe by reason of overloading or from any other cause, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $200 or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months."
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
7th February, 1913.
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