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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
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).
On India and Ceylon:--
Orders up to $20 Rupees,.
Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.
.$0.20 cents.
50
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70 100 150
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0.40
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Ordinanco 1 of 1887.
0.60
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0.80
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$1.00
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17
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On the Australian Colonics:
Orders up to £1,
$ 25,
35,
50,
60,
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$ 73,
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$ 85, $100,
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On other Countrios in dollars or yens :-
Onlers up to $10,
..$0.20 cents.
0.40
0,60
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0.80
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.$1.00
.$1.20
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$1.40 $1.60
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12 cents.
Orders up to £ 6,.......................72 cents,
£2,
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£3,
.36
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£7, £8,
.81
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Government Notification No. 607 of 31st Dec- ember, 1898.
Government Notification
No. 29 of 18th Jan., 1895.
£4,
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£5,
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£9,.........$1.08 £10,.........$1.20
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On the United Kingdom and on Countries drawn throngh London :—
.$0.08 cents. Orders up to £ 6,......$0.48 cents.
Orders up to £1,
£2,
0.16
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£3,
0.24
£4,
0.32
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£5,
0.40
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LOCAL POSTAL NOTES,-
Government Notification
No. 517 of 6th Dec., 1895.
£ 7,...... 0.56
£ 8,...... 0.64
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£ 9,...... 0.72 £10,...... 0,80
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Commission charged on issue of a 23-cent note,.
1 cent.
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50 $ 1.00
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2 cents.
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$ 2.00
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$ 3.00
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No. 441 of 1st Dec., 1893.
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$ 4.00
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$ 5.00 $10.00
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RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES. BUILDINGS,-
Rent of Whitfeild Station, $360 per annum,
Rent of Old Government Pavilion, Penk, $200 per ammm,,
Rent of 1st floor of 121 Wing Lok St., (reuted to Nain Pak Hong Cominittee.),
$180 per annum.
LANDS NOT LEASED :—
Villagers and Squntters' Holdings inside City
fect.
of Victoria,
$1 per annum for 150 square Villagers and Squatters in Outlying Villages, $1 per annum for 300 square feet. Villagers and Squatters at Kowloon, .......................$1 per annum for 300 square feet. Cultivated Lands in Ilongkong and Kowloon, at 75 cents per annum per Mow
=733 square yards,
STONE QUARRIES:-
Leased to the highest bidder by Tender for one year from 1st January to 31st
December, 1899.
Hongkong,.. Kowloon,
LEASED LANDS :—
.$8,800.00 per annum. .$8,000.00 per aumum.
Crown Rents on Lands lensed for periods varying from 75 to 999 years,
SLAUGHTER-Houses:-
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Sole privilege of slaughtering animals for the food of man within the Colony granted to the highest bidder by Tender for one year from 1st January to 31st December, 1899, for $45,000,
MARKETS:-
Shops, Stulls,
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Let either from month to mouth, or for a term of years, for such rent
as shall appear to the Registrar General just and reasonable.
C.S.O. No. 549 of 1891. C.S.O. No. 1289 of 1897. CS.O. No. 1546 of 1899, (from 1st Nov., 1899.)
Ordinance 8 of 1858,
Section 20.
Government Notification No. 712 of 16th Dec., 1899, and C.S.O.97 of 1898, Coufidential. The leases are disposcil of nt Public Auction Sales, held in accord- ance with Notifications, Ordinance 17 of 1887,
Sec, 8, Govt. Not. 415 of 1893 and C.S.O. Confidential 80 of 1898.
Ordinanco 17 of 1887, Sec. 18, and Govt. Not. No. 237 of 1890.