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THE HON KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 23, 1931. 729

No. 666

Hong Kong.

Resolution made and passed by the Legislative Council on the 22nd day of October, 1931, under the provisions of section 7 of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916.

Tobacco Duties.

Resolved that the duties on Tobacco set forth in the Resolution passed by this Council on the 26th February, 1931, and published in the Government Gazette of the 27th February, 1931, by Government Notification No. 123 be varied and subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 6 of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1916), as amended by section 7 of the Tobacco Amendment Ordinance, 1929, (Ordinance No. 3 of 1929) the duty payable :-

1. upon all tobacco imported into the Colony after the coming into operation

of this resolution, and

2. upon all dutiable tobacco already in the Colony at the coming into operation

of this resolution

shall be as stated in the following table per pound weight: Provided that the dollars and decimals thereof stated in the table shall be conventional dollars reckoned as the equivalent of one shilling and eight pence sterling; and that consequently to arrive at the actual amount payable in Hong Kong currency the conventional dollar stated in the Table shall be multiplied by 20 and divided by a figure settled by the Colonial Treasurer from time to time representing the average opening selling rates for the previous month of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation for demand drafts on London and until so settled the figure shall be 12.25.

TABLE.

A. Ön unmanufactured tobacco :-

(1) If unstripped

(a) containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per 100

pounds weight thereof

$0.70

(b) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per 100

pounds weight thereof....

$0.79

(2) If stripped:-

(a) containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per 100

pounds weight thereof

$0.84

(b) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per 100

pounds weight thereof

$0.93

B. On manufactured tobacco :—

(1) Cigars

$2.00

(2) Cigarettes...

$0.90

(3) Other manufactured tobacco including snuff and cigar cut-

ings...

$0.90

R. A. C. NORTH,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

22nd October, 1931.