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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
No. S. 78.---It is hereby notified that information has been received from the Consul-General for the Netherlands-India that Hongkong has been declared an infected port on account of plague.
No. S. 79.--Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Netherlands
Judia.
Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :-(1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, and used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal; (2) rags. (Re- fuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made or from bleaching- establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of new paper, are not considered as rags.)
Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul- General at Hongkong.
5th May, 1916..
Reference to Govern- ment Nori-
fication.
No. S. 78.
No. S. 80. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th April, 1916, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks :
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
8,556,377
5,000,000*
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
24,511,300
20,000,000
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,
1,073,103
650,000+
TOTAL.
34,140,780
25,650,000
* Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £150,000.
† Securities with the Crown Agents £68,040,
No. S. 81. The following statement of the securities lodged with the Crown Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes in circulation, is published for general information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911):
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