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No. 49.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER, 1885.
VOL. XXXI.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 367.
It is hereby notified that the Queen's Exequatur, empowering PETER JULIUS RUDOLPH DIEDRICH BUSCHMANN, Esquire, to act as Swedish and Norwegian Consul at Hongkong, received Her Majesty's signature on the 13th day of August, 1885.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1885.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 368.
The following Order by the Governor in Council is published under the provisions of Section 9 of Ordinance 12 of 1884.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th September, 1885.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
ORDER
Made by the Governor in Council this 24th day of September, 1885, under the provisions of Section 9 of Ordinance 12 of 1884.
Whereas by The Post Office Ordinance, 1884, it is provided, amongst other things, that the Governor in Council may, from time to time, by order, determine the Rates of Postage to be charged upon all correspondence sent by post from the General Post Office of the Colony, or received from places outside the Colony, and the Scale of Weight according to which such Rates are to be charged: And whereas by an Order bearing date the 13th day of December, 1881, it was ordered by the Governor in Council that the Rates of Postage and Scale of Weight should, until further notice, be according to the Table to the said Order annexed:
And whereas it has become necessary to substitute a new Table in lieu of the said Table:
Now, therefore, it is hereby ordered that the said Table annexed to the said Order of the 13th day of December, 1881, be altered, from the 1st day of October next, by substituting the Rates of Postage and Scale of Weight in the Table hereunto annexed for those of the Table of the said Order of the 18th day of December, 1881.
Council Chamber, Hongkong.
ARATHOON SETHI, Clerk of Councils.