64 COLONIAL ORDINANCES .
bargained for, as last aforesaid, shall and may be sold and delivered
according to the Ratio and Proportion which the Weights or Measures
in use in the Colony at the time such Contracts or Bargains shall have
been made shall bear to the standard Weights and Measures esta-
blished by this Ordinance.
For Stricken Mea- X. And be it further enacted, That in every Sale, Barter,
sures.
and Exchange of any Goods or Things which are not commonly
or which shall not be contracted or agreed to be delivered by Heaped
Measure, the Measure shall not be heaped, but shall be stricken with
a round Stick or Roller straight and of the same Diameter from
End to End .
Fines &c. to be XI. And be it enacted, That all Fines and Penalties provided by
in manner provided by this Ordinance shall (except when it is otherwise specially provided)
Ordinance
1844. No. 10 of be recovered, levied, and distributed , on the Offender being convicted in
a Summary Way before any Magistrate of Police, or before any Two
Justices of the Peace, in the Manner provided by Ordinance No. 10
of 1844.
Not to apply to the XII. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Ordinance
Sale of Medicines or
Precious Metals or contained shall be deemed or taken to extend or apply to the sale of
Stones.
Medicines, or Precious Metals, or Precious Stones, nor to the Weights
or Measures bona fide used for the Sale thereof.
Commencement of XIII. And be it further enacted, That this Ordinance shall com-
Ordinance.
mence and take effect from and after the First Day of February, One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-five.
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
Governor, &c. &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 30th Day of December, 1844.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS .
A.
WEIGHTS.
10 Candareen or 分 Fun, make one
Tseen, (Mace)
10 Mace 錢 Tseen, 99 Leang, (Tael)
»錢
16 Taels 29 丙 Leang, "" Kin, (Catty)
100 Catties
26
22 担 Tam, (Picul)
斤 Kin,
13 Picul
36
担 Tam, Shik, (Stone . )