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DIEU DROIT




HONGKONG ,



ANNO OCTAVO



VICTORIE REGINE.



No. 22 of 1844.


Y His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquire, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its
Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superinten-
dent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of
the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance for establishing Standard Weights and Measures, Title.
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 Frau- Preamble.
dulent 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 Stan-
dard now in Force and in Use in China and in 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 :


I. Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Certain Weights and
Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, Measures inthe Colo-
That the said several Weights and Measures deposited in the ria, declared to be
Standards.
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.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the , Copies of such Stan-
dards to be made by
Governor of the said Colony to cause Copies and Models of the seve- order of the Governor,
ral Weights and Measures so deposited in the Colonial Treasury in and having been veri-
fied and marked, to be
Victoria as aforesaid to be carefully made, and upon every such deposited with the
Weight or Measure being verified before such Governor, and approved Magistrate
and of Police
of