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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
DUTIES, Continued.
Act of Colonial Legislature
or other Authority under which levied.
IMPORTED TOBACCO :-
No drawback shall be payable unless the claim is made within three working days of the date mentioned in the export permit ns the day of shipment or when the ship left the port.
8. No drawback shall be allowed on any tobacco which shall not have been wholly manufactured within the licensed premises of the person submitting the tobacco for exportation or shipment.
9. No drawback shall be allowed, unless with the special permission of the Super- intendent, on any tobacco except in accordance with a certificate of a Government or Monopoly Analyst or Assistant Government Analyst or Assistant Monopoly Analyst which certificate shall be final and conclusive evidence of the facts stated therein to have been obtained from the examination of such tobacco or a sample or samples thereof.
The inspecting Revenue Officer shall be entitled to draw such samples free of charge for submission to the Analyst.
Ordinance 39 of 1931, Government Notifica- tions No. 166 of 1933, No. 274 of 1934, and No. 439 of 1936.
LIGHT DUES.
1. All ships, other than river steamers, which enter the waters of the Colony, except British and foreign ships of war and all vessels of less than 20 tons, shall pay the following dues, viz:—
Two and four-tonilis cents per ton.
2. Such dues shall be paid at the Harbour Master's Office at the time of entry. 3. All river steamers which enter the waters of the Colony by day or by night, shall pay nine-tenths of a cent per ton.
4. Upon the ascertainment of the amount in dollars and decimals thereof, of any such dues the dollars and decimals of the amount so ascertained shall be deemed to be conventional dollurs reckoned as the equivalent of one shilling and eight pence sterling; and consequently to arrive at the retual amount payable in Hong Kong currency the con- ventional dollar shull he woultiplied by 20 and divided by a figure settled by the Colonial Treasurer from time to time representing the average opening selling rates for the previous month of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for demands on London,
Section 32 of Ordinance 10 of 1899, Table P.
Govt, Notification No. 147 of 10th March, 1933.
GOVERNMENT BLOTS :-
"A" class for ships from 450 to 600 feet in length $16 per day or part of a day. "B
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300 450
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of less than 300 feet
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At the discretion of the Harbour Master such buoys may be let at a full monthly
rent, such letting to be subject to revocation at any time. The tenant of any suen buoy shall not sub-let the same,
Section 28 (1) of Ordinance 10 of 1899 and Govern-
ment Notification No.
693 of 21st Nov., 1930.
LICENCES AND INTERNAL REVENUE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
ARMS,-Licence to deal in
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to possess and carry.
AUCTIONEERS' Licences,
$1,200 yearly.
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600 yearly.
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(Weekly)....
25
BILLIARD TABLE AND ROWLING ALLEY LICENCES,..
100
Ord. 2 of 1900, Sec. 10.
Ordinance 25 of 1933.
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