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1846 ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1885 .


Unclaimed Balances.


No person shall buy or sell or otherwise deal by any measure of
length or by any steelyard which is not made conformably to the regu
lations contained in the schedule of this Ordinance .

Falsifying 6. Any person who falsifies or wilfully injures any copies or mo
weights and
measures or dels of standard weights or measures deposited with a Police Magistrate,
having posses
sion of or buys or sells or otherwise deals by, or upon whose business premises
fraudulent
weights and are found any weights or measures fraudulently stamped or marked or
measures.
not according to and agreeing with the standard weights and measures
of the Colony, or who obstructs any examiner of weights and measures
in the discharge of his duty as such, shall be liable under this Ordinance

on summary conviction before a Police Magistrate to a penalty not ex
ceeding two hundred dollars for each offence, apart from and in addition
to any other penalty or liability to which such person may be subject in
respect of such offence. All weights and measures duly seized by an
examiner of weights and measures under the provisions of this Ordinance
shall be forfeited to the Crown.

Weights and 7. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to the buying or selling
ineasures for
dealing in or dealing in medicines or precious metals or precious stones nor to
medicines or
precious weights or measures employed in relation thereto.
metals or pre
cious stones
not within
this
Ordinance.
Ordinance 22 8. Ordinance 22 of 1844 is hereby repealed , provided that such re
of 1844
repealed. peal shall not affect the past operation of such Ordinance or any liability
or punishment incurred thereunder.

9. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of
April, 1885 .



SCHEDULE.
CHINESE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

Weights.
1 Fan (candareen) = 0.133 oz . avoirdupois.
1 Tsin (mace) = 0.133 99 29
1 Leung (tael) 1/3/1 99 19
1 Kan (catty) = 14 lbs. 99
1 Tam (picul ) = 133 " 99
and the following weights, viz.: 2, 3, 4, 5, taels ; 10, 17, 20, 30, 40, 50, taels ; 100, 200,
300, 400, 500, 700, taels.