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HONGKONG,

ANNO OCTAVO.

VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 22 of 1844.

Y His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquire,

By Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of

Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

AN ORDINANCE FOR ESTABLISHING STANDARD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, ANd for preventinNG THE USE OF SUCH AS ARE FALSE

AND DEFICIENT.

as

[30th December, 1844.]

Title.

I. WHEREAS it is necessary to provide against the use of Preamble. fraudulent Weights and Measures in Hongkong and its Depen- dencies, 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 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 (schedules whereof marked with the letters A. and B. are hereunto annexed) have been deposited in the Colonial Treasury in the Town of Victoria: Be it therefore enacted by His Ex- Certain Weights cellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the and Measures in the Colonial Trea- Legislative Council thereof, That the said several weights and

sury, Victoria, de- measures deposited in the Colonial Treasury in Victoria as clared to be Stand- aforesaid shall be there safely kept, and shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, the standard weights and measures of Hongkong.

II.

ards.