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VIII. On application being made for the Customs' Clearance, if the Customs are satisfied that the Customs' Clearance. Import and Export Manifests are correct, and that all Dues and Duties have been paid, the Clearance will be issued.
IX. In all cases of transhipment, application must be made for a Tranship Permit. Goods transhipped before receipt of such Permit are liable to confiscation.
Transhipment.
X. All cargo, stores, &c., landed or shipped without a Permit, are liable to confiscation, and the Master of the vessel liable to a fine.
Permits.
XI. The limit of the anchorage is defined with a line drawn from the extreme West end of the Limit of the Aneltor- Back Sha (b) Bank to the Jin-mee Point.
age.
XII. The shipment and discharge of cargo can only be carried on within the above limit, defined Shipment and Dis- under the name of Ha-mun (4).
charge of Cargo.
The authorised Custom's jetty for the examination, landing, and shipment of goods is the one at the river side of the Custom House at Hoi-how ().
XIII. No Ballast or Dunnage can be shipped or discharged without Permits, and the same must be Ballast and Dunnage. properly discharged into lighters or cargo boats, and deposited on shore. For failing to do this, Masters are liable to a fine.
XIV. Vessels requiring native pilots for the Port of Kiungchow, are permitted to call at the following Ports or Places, namely, Pak-hoi (), Nao-chow () and Shui-tung (); but at such Ports or Places, no trade is allowed to be carried on.
XV. The Custom House is open for the transaction of business from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., Sundays and Holidays excepted.
All applications regarding Customs' business should be addressed to the "Commissioner of Customs."
(Signed,) H. O. BROWN,
Commissioner of Customs.
Pilots.
Office Hours.
Custom IIouse, Kiungchow, 1st April, 1876.
True Copy,
COLIN M. FORD.
No. 70.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon of the 25th instant, for levelling, reforming and channelling the Streets, Drainage improvements, &c., in the Village of Stanley.
The Specification can be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.
The Government will not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any Tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 8th April, 1876.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Mails for India by French Packet.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
It has been customary at this Office not to close Mails for India by each French Mail Packet, but only by those which meet a branch Packet at Calle to carry the correspondence on, that is to say, by each alternate French Mail.
To provide, however, for the transmission of letters to India by the intermediate Packets, by which hitherto no Indian Mails have been made up, it has been arranged that such letters may be sent, but they can be paid only as far as Ceylon, and should be marked Paid to Galle only. The postage to Ceylon must be prepaid, but they will go on from Galle as unpaid.
As compared with waiting for the next P. & O. steamer, it is stated that a letter thus sent to Calcutta would gain from 3 to 5 days, to Madras, from 6 to 8 days, according to the season; but that letters for Bombay and Western India would gain no time by the above arrangement.
ALFRED LISTER,
General Post Office, Hongkong, 4th April, 1876.
POLICE NOTIFICATION.
Postmaster General.
All persons are prohibited from collecting dried wood on any Crown Lands in this Colony. All persons having unlawful possession of any part of any shrub or tree, or who shall cut, break, bark, root up, or otherwise destroy or damage any shrub or tree, are liable to a heavy punishment.
By Command,
Central Police Barrack, Hongkong, 29th March, 1876.
W. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.