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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5тH AUGUST, 1899.
15. And, lastly, that your Petitioners have large stocks ordered from Europe and partly in course of transit to this Colony and have further entered into contracts for the sale thereof or of a part thereof; and that heavy losses would result to your Petitioners in connection with the foregoing in the event of the closing of their said businesses which would be occasioned by the imposition of such licence fee of $1,200 as aforesaid.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray Your Excellency that the existing annual licence fee for dealers in arms as provided by section 10 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1895 be not
increased and that the proposed fee of $1,200 be not imposed; and further that Your Excel- lency may be pleased to take such other action in the premises as to Your Excellency may
And your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray, &c.
seem fit.
Dated this 8th day of July, 1899.
永伍园林典 德榮德義和
益
伍桂芳
有何祥司致伍同雷福闋
世泰
司徒華
廣德昌隆記
仁聰盛銓除樑德
記
譚C
陳逢桂
德隆泰記
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. No. 443.
The following Regulation, made by His Excellency the Governor under section 10 of the Post
Office Ordinance, is published for general information:-
REGISTERED COVERS.
From and after the tenth day of August, 1899, no registered covers shall be received at the General Post Office unless the same shall bear on the left-hand lower corner thereof the name and address, in full, of the sender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th August, 1899.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART. Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 444.
The following Notice is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th August, 1899.
J. H. STEWART Lockhart, Colonial Secretary.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
It is hereby notified that, in consequence of a communication received from the Director General of the Post Office in India to the effect that a Post Office is maintained by the Government of British India at-
Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahé, l'ondicherry, Yanam,
from and after this date the scheme for Imperial Penny Postage will apply to the British Post Offices at those places as regards letters posted through this Office.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 5th August, 1899.
W. C. H. HASTINGS, Postmaster General.