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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 13, 1921.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 217.

Regulations made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council under section 4 of the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, Ordinance No. 8 of 1921, on the 11th day of May, 1921.

Heading No. 3 in the schedule to the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, is amended Agreements by the addition of the following exemption :-

c) (a.) Agreement relating to the sale of goods.

relating to

the sale of goods.

warrants.

The stamp duty on dividend warrants, whether expressed to be payable by Dividend the corporate body issuing the dividend warrant or by some other person, and whether payable within or without the Colony, shall be 10 cents for each dividend warrant, and shall be paid, by the corporate body issuing the dividend warrants, before issue, by means of impressed and dated stamps.

Bills of

current

Bills of exchange, payable on demand, drawn within the Colony, by per- exchange sons who are not bankers, on current accounts kept by such persons with drawn on bankers outside the Colony, shall be exempt from duty unless actually paid or accounts endorsed or in some manner negotiated within the Colony, and if so paid or outside the endorsed or negotiated within the Colony shall be chargeable with a duty of 10 cents, to be paid, before such payment, endorsement or negotiation, by means of adhesive stamps.

Colony.

Note:-Regulations made under the above Ordinance were published in the Gazette Extraordinary of the 30th April, 1921.

No. 218.

Regulation made by the Governor in Council under section 4 (2) and section 6 of the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1913, Ordinance No. 20 of 1913, this 11th day of May, 1921.

The Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the above Ordinance on the 24th day of February, 1921, and published in the Gazette on the 4th day of March, 1921, as Government Notification No. 78, are hereby amended as follows:-

(1.) By deleting all words in regulation No. 1 of the said regulations after the

word "hereto" in line 5 thereof.

(2.) By deleting the words commencing "during the term or period" and ending "and thereafter" in the clause next after the third recital in the form of licence set out in the schedule, and substituting the words

from the date hereof."

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(3.) By deleting the words "signed sealed and delivered by

in the presence of..........

""

at the end of the schedule.

No. 219.

Regulation made by the Governor in Council under section 95 (g) of the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, Ordinance No. 9 of 1911, this 11th day of May, 1911.

Form No. 3 of the third schedule to the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, is hereby altered by adding after the words "Permission is hereby granted to move the above mentioned liquors for export in the manner described" the words "on condition. that the said liquors shall be immediately moved from the warehouse named above to the ship named above."