Nanking, Mar. 13, Revised provisional regulations for restricting the use of natural mixtures and artificial adulterations in. cotton were adopted by the Legislative Yuan yesterday. Designed to prevent the! flooding of the market with inferior cotton, the new rules set legal. standard for water content and miscellaneous ingredients in domestic cotton at 11 and 5 per cent., respectively, For cotton on sale in' the market, the maximum slanderd is fixed at 12 per cent. for water content and 2 per cent. for artifieal mixtures, If content and irregular adul cotton are found to exceed the fixed maximum standard, trading will be suspended, The rules also provide that anyone found to have deliberately adulterated cotton with water and foreign matier exceeding the limit shall be subject to imprisonment up to three years, and also may be fined a sum not exceeding $1,000. Anyone who edulcrates high grade cotton with cheap cotton shall be fined up to $1,000, Colton for export will be' subject, to inspection in accordance with regulations provided in the Commod-'06000 ity Testing Law.—Contral News.
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