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108 ORDINANCES Nos . 21 AND 22 OF 1844.


Salt, Opium Licensing &c. Weights and Measures.


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.
Table of official 11. And be it further enacted and ordained that the following official fees as set
fees to be levied
after the
passing of this forth in the annexed table shall be levied and made payable from and after the passing
Ordinance.
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 $5
For the signature ofthe Governor "" 5
For the signature of the Colonial Secretary 99 2

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[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1845.]




No. 22 of 1844.

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

[ 30th December , 1844. ]

Preamble. THEREAS it is necessary to provide against the use of fraudulent weights and
WH 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 :

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