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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST OCTOBER, 1881.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.----No. 349.
The following Ordinance, together with a
translation thereof, is published by command of
His Excellency the Administrator.
W. M. DEANE,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 1st October, 1881.
九十四百三第報憲
例抄印俾衆週
年十月初一日示
一千八百八十一
例
下
代
下開官碼官尺則
署輔政使司田
代理督憲札諭將
曉諭事照得現奉
6
. No. 22. of 1844.
An Ordinance for Establishing Standard Weights
and Measures, and for preventing the Use of
such as are false and deficient.
[30th December, 1844.]
WHEREAS it is necessary to provide against
it is
'the Use of fraudulent Weights and Mea-
'sures in Hongkong and its Dependencies, and 'for that Purpose to establish certain Standards 'by which all other Weights and Measures may 'be regulated, and to prohibit the Use of any 'other Weights and Measures than such as shall
agree with such Standards: And whereas certain 'Weights and Measures of the Standard now in 'force and in Use in China and in the United 'Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Sche- 'dules whereof marked with the letters A. and 'B. are hereunto annexed), have been deposited ‘in the Colonial Treasury: Be it enacted by his Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
I. The several Weights and Measures deposited in the Colonial Treasury as aforesaid shall be there safely kept, and shall be, and they are hereby declared to be the Standard Weights and Measures of Hongkong.
II. It shall be lawful for the Governor to cause
Copies and Models of the several Weights and Measures so deposited in the Colonial Treasury
to be carefully made, and upon every such Weight or Measure being verified before such Governor, and approved of by him, to cause a Mark or Stamp to be legibly impressed or engraven thereon, to show that the same hath been so verified and approved; and such Mark or Stamp shall consist of such Letters and Figures as are commonly used to signify Her Majesty's Name or Mark, together with S.W. or S.M., signifying Standard Weight or Standard Measure, as the Case may be, and the Number of Pounds or other Denomi- nation of such Weight or Measure; and such Copies or Models, after being so verified, appro- ved, and marked, shall be deposited with all Magistrates of Police, and such other proper Persons as may be appointed, and shall be by them respectively, safely, and securely kept for
例則條二十二第四十四百八千一
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例則之尺碼小短做偽用
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用不正碼尺又因此乃緊要必須立
照得現爲急須禁在香港各處地方
模官本碼衆報明
尺港尺週 明卽 之官是知者現要
存又要報
原碼為該俾在報留
要之
之碼尺必
照上所言
務司署内
正
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地
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第一
在本港庫
別人等必要穩固留存可以隨時觀驗 及嗣後所立別人之處而該巡理府及 言驗准彫烙印號者須要存在巡理府 尺分寸多寡如此之倣式效模經照上
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馳准用至該印號必用人所常用指明 將該碼尺彫烙明白印號為憑以經 如此碼尺倘由總督飭令驗準即可飲 庫務司署内所存碼尺詳備倣式效模
第二款香港總督有權命人遵照本港
飭模