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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 19, 1931.
from time to time representing the average opening selling rates for the previous month of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for demand drafts on London and until so settled the figure shall be 11.37.
TABLE.
W. PEEL,
Governor.
A. On unmanufactured tobacco :--
(1) If unstripped :-
(a) containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per 100
pounds weight thereof...
$0.50
(b) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per 100
pounds weight thereof....
$0.56
(2) If stripped:-
(a) containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per
pounds weight thereof...
100
$0.60
(b) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per
pounds weight thereof...
100
$0.66
B. On manufactured tobacco :-
(1) Cigars
$1.50
(2) Cigarettes
$0.75
(3) Other manufactured tobacco, including snuff and cigar cut-
tings
$0.75
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
Hong Kong.
No. 100.
Regulation made by the Governor in Council under section 3 (i) (b) of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916, on the 19th day of February, 1931.
The rates of drawback as set forth in Government Notification No. 352 of 1930, as amended by Government Notification No. 492 of 1930, shall be proportionately reduced in respect of Tobacco hereafter manufactured from raw leaf on which duty shall have been paid according the amended scale as set forth in the order of the Governor made this day under the provisions of the Public Revenue Protection Ordinance, 1927.
2. Such drawbacks shall be paid at the sterling rate for conventional dollars fixed for the month in which the application for drawback is made.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
19th February, 1931.
D. W. TRATMAN,
Clerk of Councils.
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