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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 16, 1912.

(c.) One hundred ounces of concentrated perfume essence so as to

prepare perfumery of saleable quality.

(d.) Sixteen pounds of common salt.

3. Notice must be given to the Superintendent by the person desiring to denature liquid containing alcohol, so that a revenue officer or the Government Analyst or such person as the Governor may from time to time appoint in that behalf, may attend at the operation, and whenever necessary take a sample of the denatured spirit for the purposse of analysis.

4. When liquid containing alcohol is denatured in a General Bonded Warehouse, the person giving notice under Regulation 3 shall pay to the person in charge of such warehouse for the use of any space in such warehouse used for such operations a fee of $2 for each 100 gallons or part of 100 gallons denatured.

No. 49.

Regulations made on the 18th day of January, 1912, by the Governor-in-Council under Section 95 (j) of the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 9 of 1911).

The regulations relating to Breaking Down, Blending, Mixing and Bottling made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 55 (j) of the Liquors Ordinance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 27 of 1909), and published in the Gazette on the 17th day of September, 1909, and on pages 609 and 610 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1910, are hereby revoked and there shall be substituted therefor the following regulations relating to :-

Breaking Down, Blending, Mixing and Bottling.

1. No barrels, casks, cases, boxes, tins, bottles or other vessels containing dutiable liquors shall be opened and no dutiable liquor shall be diminished, increased, mixed or altered in any way in quantity or quality except in a General Bonded Warehouse or Licensed Warehouse.

2.-(a.) Whenever any person desires to open any barrel, cask, case, box, tin, bottle or other vessel containing dutiable liquors or to diminish, increase, mix or alter any dutiable liquor in quantity or quality he shall give notice of such desire during office hours on the working day previous to the day on which he wishes to commence operations, and shall not commence operations, except in the presence of a revenue officer, unless special per- mission has been previously granted by the Superintendent.

(6.) Such notice shall state :--

(i.) the nature of the proposed operation, and the quantity of the

liquors to be affected;

(ii) the place where such liquors are stored;

(iii) the time at which operations will commence.

3. All barrels, casks, cases, boxes, tins, bottles or other vessels intended to be dealt with shall be placed in such a manner as to allow convenient access to the Superintendent or any revenue officer to examine and gauge the same and to examine and watch the operations.

4. The work shall not without the consent of the Superintendent in writing com- mence before 6 a.m. or continue after 6 p.m. provided that when bottling of the contents of any cask has commenced it may be continued until the whole is bottled.

5. The person in charge of a General Bonded Warehouse or the Licensee of a Licensed Warehouse shall keep an accurate account of all operations carried out under these regulations.

6. The person giving a notice under Regulation 2 shall pay to the person in charge of a General Bonded Warehouse a reasonable fee (to be fixed by the Superin- tendent) for the use of any space in such warehouse used for such operations.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

18th January, 1912.

R. H. CROFTON,

Clerk of Councils.