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ORDINANCES Nos. 21 AND 22 OF 1844.

Salt, Opium Licensing &c.

Weights and Measures.

Table of official fees to be levied after the passing of this Ordinance.

every such auctioneer shall from every sum received by him on the sale of any article by him in that capacity deduct the sum sanctioned under this Ordinance and pay the amount thereof into the Colonial Treasury quarterly and it is hereby declared that any such auctioneer failing duly to comply with the provisions of this section shall be considered to have forfeited his licence and such licence shall be absolutely void by such neglect or default.

11. And be it further enacted and ordained that the following official fees as set forth in the annexed table shall be levied and made payable from and after the passing of this Ordinance all fees so levied to be paid into the Colonial Treasury.

TABLE OF FEES TO BE LEVIED AS FOLLOWS:

For granting a marriage licence

For the signature of the Governor

For the signature of the Colonial Secretary

5

5

12

A fee amounting to per cent on the annual value or salary of any commissions or appointments by His Excellency the Governor.

[Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1845.]

Title.

Preamble,

Certain weights and measures in the Colonial Treasury, Victoria, declared to be standards.

No. 22 of 1844.

An Ordinance for establishing Standard Weights and Measures, and for preventing the Use of such as are False and Deficient.

[30th December, 1844.]

WHEREAS it is necessary to provide against the use of fraudulent weights and measures in Hongkong and its dependencies, and for that purpose to establish certain standards by which all other weights and measures may be regulated, and to prohibit the use of any other weights and measures than such as shall agree with such standards: And whereas certain weights and measures of the standard now in force and in use in China and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (schedules whereof marked with the letters A. and B. are hereunto annexed) have been deposited in the Colonial Treasury in the town of Victoria:

1. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that the said several weights and measures deposited in the Colonial Treasury in Victoria as aforesaid shall be there safely kept, and shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, the standard weights and measures of Hongkong.