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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 a small sized private box at the General Post Office,

$20

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largo Demurrage on Parcels-Any parcel remaining unclaimed for a period of twenty- one days (oxclusive of Sundays and Holidays) shall be liable to a demurrage charge of 5 cents per diem for each day beyond such 21 days. The demurrage chargeable on any one parcel shall not exceed 81. No demurrage shall be charged on parcels addressed to persons on board ship,

Interception of correspondence directed to an addressee residing within the delivery limits of any of the British Post Office Agencies in China,..............$1 per mail. Search for postal correspondence or parcel,.

10 cents for each article. Warrant for the return of correspondence,

MONEY ORders :—

Rates of Commission chargeable on Money Orders,

..$1.00

C.S.O. No. 2701 of 1915.

Government

Notification

No. 130 of 30th March, 1917.

The commission to be charged on the issue of Money Orders payable in Hongkong and the British Agencies in China will be one cent per dollar or fraction of a dollar, with a minimum charge of 5 cents; for Money Orders on all other places the commission will be one and a half cents per dollar on the amount (or equivalent of the amount), in dollars, with a minimum charge of 10 cents.

Advice of payment of Money Orders,

10 cents for ouch Order.

The charges for Telegraph Money Orders issued in Hongkong are as follows :—

(1) Money Order Commission at the ordinary rate for Foreign Money

Orders.

(2.) A charge for the Telegram of Advice at the onlinary rate for

telegrams addressed to the country of payment.

(3.) A supplementary fee of 25 cents for caeli order.

Government Notification

No. 763 of 1902.

Government Notification

No. 233 of 1907.

Government Notification No. 295 of 30th June, 1916.

LOCAL POSTAL Notes,—

Commissiou charged ou issue of a 25-cent note,.

1 cent.

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Government Notification No. 769 of 10th Nov., 1905.

RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND, AND HOUSES.

BUILDINGS:-

Rent of upper floor of No. 135 Bonham Strand, $15 per month, Rent of buikling in Kowloon Walled City, N. K. I. L. 15, $1 per anmun,. Rent of two Ponk Chair-coolie Houses, at Victorin Gap, $60 per month, Rent of Peak and Capo D'Aguilar Signalling Stations, $2 per annum, Rent of old Yamen in Kowloon Walled City, $1 per annum,

Rent of Nos. 16-34 (even Nos.) Chatham Road, Hunghom, $211 per

month,

Rent of old building in Kowloon Walled City, $1 per annum (N. K. L. L. 28,

now used as a Mortuary by Church Missionary Society),

Rent of old buikling in Kowloon Walled City, $1 per annum) N. K. I. L. 29,

now used as a hospital by the Church Missionary Society), Kent of old building in Kowloon City, Lot No. 6620, $1 per amum,. Rent of Cable House at North Point, 850 per anumn..

Rent of Cable House at Hunghom, $50 per antim,

Rent of Old Post Office Building, $2,320 per mensem.

Rent of Post Office Building, Top Floor, $655 per month,

C.S.O. No. 1546 of 1899. C.S.O. No. 1153 of 1906.

C.S.O. No. 8215 of 1904. JC.S.O. No. 616 of 1906.

Confidential,

'C.S.O. No. 225 of 1902.

Extension.

C.S.O. No. 6714 of 1905.

C.S.0). No. 225 of 1902,

Extension.

C.S.O. No. 2315 of 1907.

C.S.O. No. 443 of 1907.

C.S,O. No, 1499 of 1911. C.S.O. No, 1346 of 1911.

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