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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 13, 1929. 59

(2) Any sum forfeited under sub-section (1) hereof shall be deemed to be a debt due to the Crown, and may be recovered in an action by the Treasurer in the same manner as Crown fees are recovered under the provisions of the Crown Remedies Ordinance,

1875:

Other amendments to principal Ordinance.

6. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment as follows:-

of Ordinance No. 10 of

(a) by the repeal of paragraph (a) and by the 1916, s. 2.

substitution therefor of the following para-

graph:-

(a) Datiable Tobacco " means tobacco which is not exempt from duty and on which the duty has not been paid and includes any such tobacco which has paid duty, if subsequently re-imported.

(6) by the repeal in paragraph (e) of the words from and including "which was" down to the end of the said paragraph and by the substitution therefor of the words "which was imported into the Colony ";

(c) by the substitution of the word "manufac- tured" for the word "prepared" in para- graph (2).

7. Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment as follows:-

(a) by the repeal of sub-section (1) and by the substitution therefor of the following sub- section:

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub- sections (2) and (3), the duty payable (1) upon all tobacco imported into the Colony after the coming into operation of the Tobacco Amendment Ordinance, 1929, and (i) upon all dutiable tobacco already in the Colony at the coming into operation of the said Ordinance, shall be as follows, per pound weight :-

A. On unmanufactured tobacco :

(1) If unstripped:

(a) containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per 100 pounds weight thereof......50 cents.

(b) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per 100 pounds weight thereof......56 couts.

(2) If stripped :

(a) containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per 100 pounds weight thereof......60 cents.

(4) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per 100 pounds weight thereof......66 cents.

B. On manufactured tobacco:

(1) Cigars

(2) Cigarettes...................

(3) Other manufactured

tobacco, including snuff and cigar

cuttings

.$1.50.

0.75 cents.

0.75 cents.

of Ordinance No. 10 of 1916, s. 6.