146
No. 44.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH APRIL, 1868.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Account, duly certified, of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation in Hongkong, during the Month ending 31st March, 1868, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th April, 1868.
BANKS.
AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
$
$
Oriental Bank Corporation,.
605,000
400,000
Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,
375,879
200,000
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
284,465
100,000
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,.
1,102,170
500,000
TOTAL,...
2,367,514
1,200,000
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION,
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward Book Packets and Packets of Samples or Patterns may be transmitted by the Post in the Mails by the British Contract Packets between Hongkong, Shanghae, Yokohama, and Nagasaki, at the following rates, viz. :—
Under 4 oz.
Cents. 6
FOR A BOOK PACKET OR A PACKET OF PATTERNS.
Above 4 oz. and not | Above 8 oz. and not Above 12 oz. and not For every additional
exceeding 8 oz. exceeding 12 oz.
Cents. 12
Cents. 18
exceeding 18 oz.
Cents.
24
4 oz.
Cents. 6
The Postage must in all cases be paid in advance.
Special attention is directed to the following Rules and Regulations which will be strictly enforced.
AS REGARDS BOOKS.
A Book Packet may contain any number of separate Books, Almanacks, Maps, or Prints, and any quantity of paper, vellum or parchment (to the exclusion of letters whether sealed or open); and the Books, Maps, Paper, &c., may be either printed, written or plain, or any mixture of the three.
All legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of the same or of a portion thereof, will be allowed, whether such binding be loose or attached; as also rollers in the case of prints, markers (whether of paper or otherwise,) in the case of Books, and in short whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of literary or artistic matter or usually appertains thereto.
Every Book packet must be either without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides. It must not contain any letter, open or sealed, nor any sealed enclosure whatever.
No packet must exceed two feet in length, breadth, or depth, exceeding these dimensions it cannot be forwarded through the Post.
AS REGARDS PATTERNS.
They must not be of intrinsic value. This rule excludes all articles of a saleable nature, and indeed, whatever may have a value of its own, apart from its mere use as a pattern; and the quantity of any material sent ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it can fairly be considered as having on this ground an intrinsic value.
There must be no writing or marks other than the address of the person for whom the packet is intended, a trade mark and numbers, and prices of the articles; otherwise the Packet will be detained or forwarded charged as an unpaid letter.
The Patterns must be sent in covers open at the ends, so as to be easy of examination. Samples however, of seeds, drugs and so forth, which cannot be sent in open covers, may be enclosed in bags