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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
hereby notified that, in accordance with "The Rating Ordinance, 1875," His Excellency the be and with the advice of the Executive Council, has fixed the Police Rate for the Year Six and three-quarters per cent for Houses in the City of Victoria, and at Five per cent for Batish Kowloon and the outlying Villages of the Colony; and the Lighting Rate at One- ...ter per cent, the Fire Brigade Rate at One-half per cent, and the Water Rate at One-and-a revat per annum, for Houses in the City of Victoria.
Police, Lighting, Fire Brigade, and Water Rates will be payable Quarterly in advance at the Colonial Treasury, between the first and last Days of the first Month in each Quarter.
These several Rates shall be charged and chargeable on, and recoverable from, the Owners of the Tenements in respect of which the above Assessments have been made.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th December, 1878.
NOTICE.
C. MAY,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Under provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, notice is hereby given, that a Special Sessions of the Justices of the Peace will be held at the Police Magistrates' Court, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, the Twenty-first of January next, and thereafter on the first Tuesday of every month, for the purpose of considering applications for granting or transferring Spirit Licences during the year 1879.
Such applications to be lodged at the Police Magistrates' Court, at least ten days before each of the Sessions now notified.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 20th December, 1878.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
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