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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH AUGUST, 1897.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 319.

The following Conditions and Tariff of Charges for Analytical Examinations for the General Public in the Government Laboratory are published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th August, 1897.

Samples are analysed for the general public under the following conditions, and at the following

rates :-

Conditions.

1. Postage or freight must be prepaid.

2. Applications should be addressed to the Colonial Secretary, and should be accompanied

by samples and a remittance for the amount of the fee due.

3. The right is reserved of refusing samples from beyond the boundaries of the Colony, or such samples as may not be considered of sufficient public importance to warrant analysis.

4. The locality from which the samples come must be clearly described.

5. Crushed samples will not be received for analysis under any circumstances.

6. All samples analysed will remain the property of the Government.

7. The Government will not recognise any claims arising from the results of analysis.

Tariff of Charges.

(a) Analyses of Food Materials.-When any substance of the nature of a food or a drug* is required to be examined as to evidence of purity or freedom from adulteration, än uniform charge of five dollars is made in accordance with section 11 of The Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896.

* The term "food" shall include every food or article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water. The term "drug" shall include medicine for internal or external use. (Section 2 of The Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896.)

(b) Water.

Analysis for potable purposes (total solids, chlorine, nitrates, absorption of oxygen, free and saline and albumenoid ammonia and qualitative test for nitrites).........

Qualitative analysis of mineral water,

Quantitative

Hardness only,

do.,

$ 25.00

15.00

50.00

5.00

(c) Mineral analyses.

Salts.

Qualitative test for one constituent, Complete qualitative analysis,

Quantitative analysis, each constituent,

Metallic ores.

Antimony, Tin, Silver, Gold, qualitative,

Do.

5.00

15.00

10.00

10.00

quantitative,

25.00

General qualitative analysis,

15.00

Coal.

General analysis (moisture, volatile matter, coke, ash, specific gravity), Ultimate analysis (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur),...... Sulphur only, quantitative,

25.00

50.00

10.00

Graphite.

(d) Kerosene.

Flashing point (Abel close test),

Fire test, Gravity,

Moisture, carbon, ash, quantitative,

25.00

2.50

2.50

5.00