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POST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified, by order of His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, that henceforward, the rates of Postage chargeable on Packets of Printed Papers or Patterns of light weight sent from Hongkong to the United Kingdom when forwarded via Southampton, will be as follows:
For a Packet not exceeding one ounce in weight, 2 cents.
For a Packet above one and not exceeding two ounces, 4 cents.
And of double these rates when forwarded via Marseilles.
Packets of greater weight than two ounces will remain subject to the same rates as are now chargeable, viz.: 8 cents for every four ounces when forwarded via Southampton, and 12 cents for every four ounces when forwarded via Marseilles.
This alteration will apply to Printed Circulars, Price Lists, Market Reports and all printed papers other than Newspapers, as well as to Books and Trade patterns or samples.
F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 12th August, 1869.
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