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body corporate or a firm the application shall be signed also by some employee or agent of such body corporate or firm, and in the case of a Chinese firm the application shall also be chopped with the chop of the firm.

(6) Every person who has obtained a permit under this Ordinance and who has not availed himself thereof on the date for which it was issued shall return such permit to the Superintendent within twenty-four hours after such date or so soon thereafter as the office of the Superintendent is open.

37.-(1) Export permits shall be issued in duplicate and Export the exporter shall procure a receipt for the oils in question permits. to be indorsed on one copy of such permit by the master or mate of the ship, or by the person in charge of the aircraft or by the Manager of the Railway or his representative, or, in the case of export by road vehicle, by the revenue officer deputed by the Superintendent to indorse receipts for the vehicle, on which the oils are to be exported and shall forth- with deliver such copy so indorsed to the Superintendent.

(2) The Superintendent may, instead of issuing the duplicate copy of the export permit to the exporter, deliver it to a revenue officer who shall thereupon accompany the oils on board the ship or aircraft or train on which they are to be exported.

(3) The Superintendent may refuse to issue any export permit until such time before the proposed departure of the ship or aircraft or train or road vehicle on which the oils are to be exported as he may consider reasonable.

(4) The Superintendent may refuse to issue any export permit to export dutiable oils as ships stores or aircraft stores unless the application for the permit is indorsed by the master or agent of the ship or aircraft to the effect that the oils are for use as such stores.

(5) No export permit shall be necessary for the exporta- tion of any hydrocarbon oils which are, without landing or transhipment into any other ship or aircraft, exported on the ship or aircraft on which they were imported.

Revenue officers.

officers.

38. (1) The Superintendent may appoint such persons Revenue as he may think fit to act as revenue officers under this Ordinance and may at any time cancel any such appoint-

ment.

(2) The Superintendent may in case of any absence from duty or breach of discipline or neglect of duty on the part of any revenue officer order such revenue officer to forfeit any sum not exceeding ten dollars.

(3) No revenue officer shall desert or absent himself from his duty or be guilty of any breach of discipline or neglect of duty.

(4) Every revenue officer shall on ceasing for any cause to be a revenue officer, and at any time on demand by the Superintendent, deliver up his badge of office to the Super- intendent.

(5) Every revenue officer under this Ordinance and every person having the powers of a revenue officer under