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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MAY, 1877.
Consecutive Office Number (No. 86).
Subsidiary Numbers.
Departinental. Surveys.
BOARD OF TRADE,
Marine Department,
853
34
INSTRUCTIONS
December 1876.
TO
SUPERINTENDENTS.
Deck Cargo Spaces.-- Foreign-going Ships.
Superintendents are informed that on and after the 1st January, 1877, they should demand from owners, masters, or agents who attend at the Mercantile Marine Office to engage their crews for foreign-going ships the Form "Surveys 104a," which contains a statement of the amount of deck cargo space on which dues are payable for the outward voyage; and when owners, masters, or agents attend to discharge their crews the Superintendent should demand the Form Surveys 104, which contains a similar statement of dues payable for deck cargo space on the homeward voyage.
No fee is to be charged for the Form Surveys 104a "outwards." A fee of 10s. is to be charged and brought to account for every Form Surveys 104 "inwards.”
In any case in which the Form Surveys 104 or 104a is not forthcoming the Superintendent should obtain a statement on Form 1046 from the owner, agent, or master, to the effect that no timber, stores, or other goods were carried on deck or in spaces not included in the tonnage.
THOMAS GRAY,
Assistant Secretary.
EDWARD STANHOPE,
Secretary.
Consecutive Office Number (No. 85).
Subsidiary Numbers.
Departmental, Surveys.
852
33
M. 17,158. 1876.
BOARD OF TRADE,
Marine Department,
December 1876.
INSTRUCTIONS
ΤΟ
SURVEYORS.
Deck Cargo Spaces.
On and after the 1st January, 1877, the Surveyors are not to measure any deck cargo spaces. All applicants for the measurement of such spaces should be referred to the Collector of Customs of the Port.
THOMAS GRAY,
Assistant Secretary.
No. 115.
M. 17,158. 1876.
EDWARD STANHOPE.
Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has, with the approval of His Excellency the Major General Commanding, appointed provisionally, and till further notice, Captain B. V. Layard, H. M. 28th Regiment, to be Aide-de-Camp from the 1st instant.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th May, 1877.
No. 116.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
The following Account Current for t .e year 1876-1877 rendered by the Trustees of St. John's Cathedral Church, is published for general information, in accordance with Section XVI of Ordinance No 2 of 1847.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th May, 1877.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.