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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

Box RENTS:-

$10 per annum for each private box at Hongkong or Shanghai. MONEY ORDERS :-

The commission charged is as follows (according to the currency the Order is

drawn in).

Up to $10, or 20 Rupees,

0.20 cents.

Ordinance 1 of 1887.

150 Rupecs,

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$25, or 50 Rupees,

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$35, or 70 Rupees,

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$50, or 100 Rupees,

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On the Australian Colonics as follows:-

Orders up to £1, .....

12 cents.

£2,

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£3,

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£4, £5,

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......... 60

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0.40 cents.

0.60 cents.

0.80 cents.

$1.00

Orders up to £ 6,.........72 cents.

12

£7.. £8..........96

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£ 9,.........$1.08

£10,....

.$1.20

On the United Kingdom and on Countries drawn through London as follows:-

.$0.08 cents. | Order up to £ 6.......$0.48 cents,

Order up to £1,

Government Notifiention

No. 29 of 18th Jan., 1895.

Government Notification

No, 517 of 6th Dec., 1895.

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£2,

0.16

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£3,

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0.24

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£4, £5,

0.32 0.40

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£ 7,...... 0.56 £8,...... 0.64 £ 9,...... 0.72 £10,...... 0.80

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LOCAL POSTAL Notes,-

Commission charged on issue of a 25-cent note,-

1 cent.

50

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$ 1.00

2 cents.

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$ 2.00

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$ 3.00

6

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$ 4.00

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$ 3.00 $10.00

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Government Notification

No. 441 of 1st Dec., 1893.

RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES. BUILDINGS,-

Rent of Whitfeild Station and Garden, and Houses on Inland Lot 144 resumed

by Government..........

Ront of Government Pavilion, Peak,

LANDS NOT LEASED:-

Villagers and Squatters Holdings inside City

of Victorin,

Villagers and Squatters in Outlying Vil-

Inges,

$1 per annum for 150 square feet.

$1 per annum for 300 square feet. Villagers and Squatters at Kowloon, .......................$1 per annum for 300 square feet. Cultivated Lands in Hongkong and Kowloon, at 75 cents per annum por Mow

=7333 square yards,

STONE QUARRIES :-

Leased to the highest bidder by Tender for one year from 1st January to 31st

December, 1897.

Hongkong,. Kowloon,

LEASED LANDS :—-

.$7,000.00 per annum. .$8,500.00 per annum.

Crown Rents on Lands leased for periods varying from 73 to 999 years,

SLAUGHTER-Ilouses:-

Sole privilege of slaughtering animals for the food of man within the Colony grunted to the highest bidder by Tender for one year from 1st January to 31st December, 1897 for $41,412,

MARKETS:

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Shops, Let either from mouth to month, or for a term of years, for such rent Stalls, as shall appear to the Registrar General just and rensouable.

Cattle Derôt, 2 cents per head per day,

SHEEP DEPOT, 5 cents per head admittol, Swine DeroT, 5 cents "

CHINESE CEMETERIES FEES :-

Section A, free ... 50 cents for digging grave, etc.,

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B, & 1.00...$1.00

C, $ 2.00...$1.00

D. $10.00...$1.00

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E, $15.00...$1.00

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LAUNDRIKS :-

Let from month to month, at $10 per month onch,

| C.S.O. No. 549 of 1891, C.S.O. No. 8037 of 1896. C.S.O. No. 1239 of 1897.

Ordinance 8 of 1858,

Section 20.

Government Notification

No. 429 of 16th Oct., 1895, and C.S.O.1042 (i) of 1895. The lenses are disposed

of at Public Auction Sales, held in accord- auce with Notifications. Ordinance 17 of 1887,

Sec. 8, Govt. Not. 415 of 1893 and C.S.O. Confidential 58 of 1895, Ordinanco 17 of 1887, Sec. 18, and Govt. Not. No. 237 of 1890. C. S.'s Letter No. 147

of 1895.

Bye-laws mado under Section 13 of Ordi- nance 24 of 1887.

C.S.O.No.2168 of 1893.