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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.
LAND REVENUE.
Leased LianDS :-
Crown Rents on Lands leased for periods varying from 14 to 999 years
LANDE OCCUPIED BY CHINESE VILLAGERS, SQUATTERS, &C., under Squatters'
Licences issued by the Surveyor General, viz.:-
Villagers and Squatters at Hongkong at $1 per annum for 150 Square Feet.
Do.
do. at Kau-lung at $1 per annum for 300 Cultivated Lands at Hongkong and Kau-lung at 75 cents
-733 square yards,
STONE QUARRIES:-
per annum per Mow
Leased to the highest bidder by Tender for one year from 1st January to 31st
December......................
RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS.
The leases are disposed of at Public Auction Sales, held in accord- ance with Notiûcations.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1858,
Section 20.
Government
Notifica-
tions No. 463 of 2nd Dec., 1882, & No. 514 of 30th Dec., 1882.
MARKETS:-
Lans at $20 monthly
Shops, from $15 to $21 monthly
Stalls, from $1 to $2.50 monthly
There is a premium paid in a lump sum by the persons to whom these leases are granted when the Shop, Lan or Stall is considered by the Lessees a very desirable holding.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS :—
Post Office-Quarters rented to Postmaster General at $300 yearly Houses Nos. 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 Shek-tong Tani ....................................
Latrines-at 60 cents per seat, monthly
Slaughter House:-
Leased to the highest bidder by Tonder for one year from 1st January
to 31st December
Ordinances No. 9 of 1858, and 5 of 1867.
Rented by Order of the
Governor.
C.S.O. No. 1775 of 1873.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1867, BCC. 5, and Govern- mont Notifications No. 453 of 18th Nov., 1882, and No. 6 of 6th Jan., 1883.
LICENCES.
LICENCE TO RETAIL FERMENTED AND SPIRITUCUS LIQUORS, $300 yearly Licence to retail SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS to Chinese people only, $120 yearly.... LICENCE TO RETAIL FERMENTED and Spirituous LIQUORS at places not nearer than
2 miles from Government House at Victoria, $300 or under,
PAWNBROKERS' LICENCE, $350 yearly
AUCTIONEERS' LICENCE, $300 yearly,..............
LICENCES OF TENEMENTS FOR EMIGRANTS:-
For every 10 Inmates, if by the year, 85, and if by shorter term, for every
10 Inmates, per diem, 10 conte
EMIGRATION BROkans' Lucasca, 8200 yearly
Lacences for Billiard Tables and Bowling Azzwys, 850 yearly
Ordinances No. 11 of
1844, and 10 of 1868.
Ordinance No. 3 of 1860. "Ordinance No. 5 of 1 ›45, and Government No- tification No. 97 of 25th June, 1857.
Ordinance No.
8 of 1858.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1874.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1845,
Order of the Gorr. in
Council of 8th July, 1875.