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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH JANUARY, 1865.
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Account of the average amount of Notes in Circulation at the Agra and United Service Bank, Limited, in Hongkong, for
the month ending 31st December, 1864.
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SPECIE IN RESERVE,
Agra and United Service Bank, Limited, Hongkong, 3rd January, 1865.
$422,898. $200,000.
HENRY NOBLE, Manager.
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I hereby certify that I this day inspected the Books and Treasure of the Chartered Agra and United Service Bank, Limited, and found the necessary amount of Specie as required by the Royal Charter.
A. F. ALVES, Accountant.
Victoria, Hongkong, 6th January, 1865.
No. 176.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.
Under the 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 Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon of Wednesday the 18th January next, for the purpose of considering one Application for a Spirit License.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th December, 1864.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
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The existing practice of charging the letters of Officers serving on board Her Majesty's Ships which may be posted unpaid or insufficiently paid with the deficient amount of postage only having been found exceptional and inconvenient, Her Majesty's Postmaster General has decided that in future when such letters are posted unpaid in the United Kingdom, received unpaid in a Ship's Bag from any Colonial Station, they will be chargeable on delivery with a fine of a single rate (6d.) in addition to the postage, and when they are posted insufficiently prepaid by means of postage stamps, they will be chargeable on delivery with a fine of six pence in addition to the deficient postage; and it is hereby notified for general information that such letters addressed to the United Kingdom which may reach this Office in the Ships Bags will be treated correspondently.
Letters from Naval Officers addressed to the United Kingdom are entitled to be forwarded at the reduced charge of 6d the half ounce via Southampton and 107. the half ounce viâ Marseilles only when the same are posted here in the Ship's letter bag, and when they are brought to this Office otherwise they are treated as ordinary letters from the Public and charged accordingly.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
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POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for general information that commencing with the mails dispatched from the United Kingdom by way of Southampton on the 20th March, and by way of Marseilles on the 27th March next, which are duc in Hongkong on the 8th May, the system of delivering letters from or through the United Kingdom, addressed to Shanghae, to the Agents of the persons to whom such letters are directed at this place, will be discontinued, and from and after the arrival of the before mentioned mails all such correspondence will be forwarded to Shanghae direct from this Department.
F. W. MITCHELL,
General Post Office, Hongkong 28th December, 1861.
Postmaster General,