Art 1: Any use of silver for the manufacture of silverware shall be subjected to the following regulations:
Art, 2; "From the date of the promulgation of these Regulations the manufacture of silverwares and silver ornaments who must necessarily use pure silver for manufacturing purposes are allowed to use not more than $0 percent of pure silver in their raw materials.
'Art. 3: Silverware and' silver orna ments which were made before the the silver will not be used for other purposes.
Art. 6: Highest quota of purchase allowed silverware manufacturers should not exceed 30 per cent. of the average quantity of silverwares and silver ornaments sold by a shop three years before the present reulations are promulgated.
For those shops which have not been opened for three years the standard shall be 30 per cent. of the quantity sold two years ago, Art. 7: Silverware manufacturers should every six months report the total amount of silver wares and silver ornaments to the local, Sitversmiths Guild of the local Chamber of Commerce which in turn shall report (o the Central Bank. the Bank. of China, Bank of Communications. or their agents, which after checking the reports shall report to the Ministry of Finance.
Art. 8: When silver ware manufacturers suspend their business they should exchange all their silverware. suiver ornaments and silver materials for legal tender notes from the Cen-frat Bank, the Bank of China, Bank Communications. according their contents of pure silver.
Art. 9: Silverware manufacturers who "violate any provisions of the present Regulations shall be forced suspend their business. " Anyone who smuggles sliver or attempts. to smuggle shall be punished according to No. 5 of Art. 2 of the Regulations Governing the Punishment of Distur-berg of the Stablity of National Cur-
'ATI 10: With reference to the regulations provided from Art. 2 to Art. 8 the banks which sell silver materials should dispatch investigators to see where silverware manufacturers have faithfully observed the foulings. If silverware manufacturers are discovered to have violated the regulations provided in Art, 9, the banks should notify the case to the local administrative or judicial au-
Art, ti: These regulations are also applicable to silver used. for art Durposes. manufacture of medicine or other Industries. But with special permission of the Ministry of Finance, It may not subject itself to 30 po cent. restrieflon as provided in Art. and Art. 4, Art, 12: These regulations shal! come into effect on the date of promulgation—Central News,
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