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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH FEBRUARY, 1879.
(Translation.)
NOTICE.
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The instructions of His Excellency the Gov- ernor have been received appointing UN MAN- Ts'or as Manager of the Stamp Office Branch Agency. [The latter office] has now been esta- blished at No. 79, Bonhain Strand, to sell by commission, at current rates, all sorts of stamps. The establishment of this Branch Agency ori-
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ginated in the desire to facilitate the purchase of Stamps on the part of the Chinese Mercantile Community at all times, early or late. But in the case of all forms which require stamps, it is necessary, in accordance with the Ordinance, to use either impressed or adhesive stamps, and there must absolutely be no evasion of the law through a desire to save the small expense, whereby punishment is occurred. It is sincerely
hoped that each will act in his true self-interest.
Stamp Office,
ALFRED LISTER,
Collector of Stamp Revenue.
Hongkong, 11th February, 1879.
MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG,
10th February, 1879.
Summary of Cases deserving notice decided at
the Magistracy of Hongkong, from 1st to 8th February, 1879, both days inclusive.
Larcenies.
1.---Li A-shui, a coolie, was charged on the 3rd instant with stealing a quantity of cuttle- fish, the property of one Lo A-cheung. The accused was recognised as having been twice previously convicted and punished for a similar offence. He was on this occasion sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the first and last two weeks of which to be in solitary confinement and the rest with hard labour, in addition to being publicly exposed in the stocks for six hours on the day previous to his release from Gaol.
2. Yau A-chan a coolie convicted of stealing a catty of ginger on the 3rd nstant, was sen- tenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, in addition to being publicly exposed in the stocks for three hours at the corner of Co- chrane Street and Queen's Road
3.--Chan A-tsau, a grass cutter, was convicted on the 3rd instant, of stealir; about 3 tbs. of copper from Her Majesty's Gunboat Fly then lying in the Hung-hom Dock He was sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
4. How A-kwai, a fortune teller, was sen- tenced to si months' imprisonment with hard labour, in addition to an exposure of three hours in the stocks at the Canton steamers' wharf, for stealing a silk umbrella from a passenger on board the steamer Ichang in this harbour on the 7th
instant.
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月
致應
致違例受罰各宜自愛是所厚望焉
一千 八百 七十 九年 二月 十一
廾+
到
應用厘印格式必須遵例粘印切勿因吝小資以 設原爲爾華商人等早晚隨時就便採買起見但 門牌第七十九號照價代沽各歎印此分局之 督憲鈎諭准到袁敏才承-
分局事務現設在文咸街
後錄情判止八至
月英
徵抽壓印總務司李
爲曉諭事兹奉
府巡香
於選案所日初起初二自理港
鐘當將俱
發往當眾處枷號 監期將滿前一日 餘則俱作苦工另
F
衆處前
以號麟后
儆 街 效口
十四日于幽牢 監禁半載其首尾
經繫獄兩次故斷
些
犯許去
行拿亞月
4首故法案墨
另牢尾斷業查
工案薑
偷去盧亞章墨魚
於英本月初三日
李亞水肩挑者也
本夫邱
發三判被爲月也
個作拿 初於
尤鐘柳閣皇月苦到生三英挑
磡船澳内
大判被銅兵 偷磡三英草陳 日本爲亞 月苦到 三付英 在月生
內紅初於割
工案磅禮國
大船解
六點鐘示衆
船埔頭椥號
解往省港火
工六個月另
偷去搭客洋
到案斷作苦
遮一把被拿
衆號火另苦拿洋
宜月之韓
宜昌輪船內
日英
韓亞桂相士
在本士