THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH DECEMBER, 1884.
If any copies or models deposited with a Police Magis- trate are lost, destroyed, defaced or injured, they shall be replaced by others of the same weight or measure duly verified and approved.
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2. Any person wishing to compare any weight or mea- sure with the copy or model deposited with a Police Magistrate shall be allowed access to such copy or model for the purpose of making such comparison, at reasonable times to be appointed by the Police Magistrate in his discretion. The comparison shall be made in the Magistrate's presence, and the Magistrate, on being satisfied that the weight or measure brought for comparison corresponds truly to the copy or model, shall stamp or mark the same in such manner as the Colonial Treasurer may from time to time determine to shew that the same has been compared and approved.
Such person shall defray all expenses of conveying his weights and measures to or from the Police Court, or shall deposit with the Examiner one dollar if such weights and measures are on shore, or two dollars if they are on board a ship in the harbour, to defray such expenses.
3. The Governor shall from time to tune appoint proper persons to be examiners of weights and measures, and may at pleasure remove any persons so appointed.
4. It shall be the duty of examiners of weights and measures to enter the business premises of any persons who sell goods by weight or measure and examine the weights and measures found on such premises, and seize any of such weights or measures as appear to be fraudulently stamped or not to be according to or not to agree with the standard weights or measures of the Colony.
5. No person shall buy or sell or otherwise deal by any weights or measures other than such as are according to and agree with the standard weights and measures of the Colony.
No person shall buy or sell or otherwise deal by any measure of length or by any steelyard which is not made conformably to the Regulations contained in the Schedule of this Ordinance.
6. Any person who falsifies or wilfully injures any copies or models of standard weights or measures deposited with a Police Magistrate, or buys or sells or otherwise deals by, or upon whose business premises are found any weights or measures fraudulently stamped or marked or not according to and agreeing with the standard weights and measures of the Colony, or who obstructs any examiner of weights and mea- sures in the discharge of his duty as such, shall be liable under this Ordinance on summary conviction before a Police Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding Two hundred dollars for each offence, apart from and in addition to any other penalty or liability to which such person may be subject in respect of such offence. All weights and measures duly scized by an examiner of weights and measures under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be forfeited to the Crown.
7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to the buying or selling or dealing in medicines or precious metals or precious stones nor to weights or measures employed in
relation thereto.
8. Ordinance 22 of 1844 is hereby repealed, provided that such repeal shall not affect the past operation of such Ordinance or any liability or punishment incurred there- under.
Magistrate to verify weights and measures.
Appointment of Examiners.
Examiners may seize fraudulent weights and
measures.
Dealings by other but standard weights and
measures prolúbited.
Falsifying
weights and. *** measures or having posseK- sion of fraudu- lent weights and measures.
Weights and measures for dealing in medicines or precious metals or pre- cious stones not within this Ordinance.
Ordinance 22
of 1314 repealed.
SCHEDULE.
CHINESE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
1 Fan 1 Isin (mace)
(candareen)
1 Leung (tael)
1. Kan (entty)
1 Tum
(picul)
Weights.
0133 oz. avoirdupois. 0.133
17
19
31
14 lbs. 133 11
"
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and the following multiple weights, viz. : 2, 3, 4, 5, taels; 10, 17, 20, 30, 40, 50, taels; 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 700, taels,
Length
1 Chek (foot) equal to 143 English inches, divided into 10 Tsun or inches, and each inch into 10 l'an or tenths.
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