THE
Hongkong
Government
GAZETTE.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH AUGUST, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 113.
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo ; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” vill, as before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotificATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Scoretary.
No. 130.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Return of Payments on Account of Police and Jails, and Receipts on Account of Police Rates, m 1st January 1855, to 30th June 1857, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th August, 1857.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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COLONY OF HONGKONG.
Statement of Payments on account of the POLICE and JAILS, shewing the Net RECEIPTS on account of Police Rates, from 1st January 1855 to 30th June 1857.
RECEIPTI.
YEAR 1855.
TRAR 1856.
HALF-Year 1887.
£ 8. d. £
d. *£
d.
PAYMENTS.
*a, Police Rate Collected, 3,917 3 61] 3,868 1 91 42,890 14 Sheriff's Department,C......
YEAR 1855.
YEAR 1856.
HALF-YEAR 1857.
£ 8. d. 514 5 61 4,618 19 9
£ 4. d. 607 12 21 6,511 9 11|
£ 事。 d.
382 15 10 5,462 9 104
Superintendent of Police,.
Establishments.......££ 5,133 5 37,119 2 1 5,84558
exy paid from the traccal Revenue,
B
4,942 15 4
Police, exclusive of Estab-
lishment,. Jails, do.
do.
584 0 1 649 7 31 1,268 3 11 1,268 7 4 1,657 11 14 719 19 9
Total,...£6,985 12 8 9,426 0 6 7,833 9 5
3,068 9 2 5,557 18:9
Total,......£6,985 12 81 | 9,426 0 64 7,833 9 5
4 The Lighting Rate amounting to £610,5.84 in
ncluded in the Receipts.
REMARKS.
B Deficiency of Taxes and Police Rates as com- pared with Expenditure under the' special heads specified above, £13,569.3.3,
C The Departments of the Chief Magistrate and of the Sheriff, amounting respectively to £5,503.7.0 and £1,500.0.0, are not included in the Payments.
FRED. FORTH, Treasurer,
J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.
$30 August, 1857.
131.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, that the usual Licenses for the Privileges of Weighing Salt and Quarrying Stone throughout the Island, will be put up to Public Auction on Thursday, the 3d September next, at 1 P.M., at the Chief Magis-
e's Office.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 29th August, 1857.
W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary,