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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 4, 1916.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time and passed.

REVENUE OFFICERS POWER OF ARREST AMENDMENT BILL. The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend the Revenue Officers Power of Arrest Ordinance, 1913.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question--put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

ALIEN ENEMIES (WINDING UP) AMENDMENT BILL.--The Second reading of the Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend further the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinance, 1914, was postponed.

ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned sine die.

Read and confirmed this 3rd day of August, 1916.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

F. H. MAY,

Governor.

No. 343.

Resolution passed by the Legislative Council this 3rd day of August, 1916, under the provisions of Section 7 of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1916).

TOBACCO DUTIES,

Resolved that the duties imposed on tobacco under Section 6 of the Tobacco Ordi- nance, 1916, shall cease to be payable as from the 28th day of July, 1916, and that the following duties shall be substituted therefor :-

(a) Cigars valued at not less than $2.20 per b. and snuff of

whatever value,

$1.50 per tb.

(b), Cigars valued at less than $2.20 per tb, and not less than

$1.60 per tb.,.

.70

(e) Tobacco and cigarettes valued at not less than $1.60 per b.,.. (d) Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes valued at less than $1.60 per fb.

and not less than $1.10 per lb.,

.70

.30

(e) Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes valued at less than $1.10 per t.

and not less than 60 cents per lb.,

20

(f) Tobacco, cigars and cigarettes of any other kind not herein

otherwise provided for,..

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

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COUNCIL CHAMBER,

3rd August, 1916.

No. 344.--His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:-

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Ordinance No. 11 of 1916. -An Ordinance to amend the Revenue Officers Power

of Arrest Ordinance, 1913.