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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.
Act of Colonial Legislature
or other Authority under which levied.
Box RENTS:-
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810 per annum for a small sized private box at the General Post Office, $20
large Demurrage on Parcels :-Any parcel remaining unclaimed for a period of twenty- one days (exclusive 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 $1. 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 the British Post Office Agency at Wei-hai-wei ...........$1 per mail. Search for postul 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
The commission ́to be charged on the issue of Money Orders payable in Hong Kong, Macao and Wei-bai-wei 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 each Order.
The charges for Telegraph Money Orders issued in Hong Kong 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 ordinary rate for
telegrams addressed to the country of payment.
(3.) A supplementary fee of 25 cents for each order.
LOCAL POSTAL NOTES,—
Commission charged on issue of a 25-cent note,......
cent.
C.S.O. No. 2071 of 1915,
Government Notification
No. 130 of 30th March, 1917.
Government Notification
No. 763 of 1902,
Government Notification
No. 233 of 1907.
Government Notification No. 295 of 30th June, 1916.
50 $ 1.00
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$ 5.00 $10.00
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Government Notification No. 769 of 10th Nov., 1905.
LOCAL MONEY Post Cards-(limited to $10)
Commission charged 1 cent for each dollar and fraction thereof,
RAILWAYS --
Kowloon-Canton Railway
Govt. Notification No 165
of 13th April, 1923.
Fares, Freight, etc., according to the Tariff.
Ordinance 21 of 1909.
Fan Ling Branch Railway
RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND, AND HOUSES.
BUILDINGS:-
Rent of upper floor of No. 135 Bonliam Strand, $15 per mouth, Rent of building in Kowloon Walled City, N. K. I. L. 15, $1 per annum,................ Rent of two Penk Chair-coolic Houses, at Victoria Gap, $60 per month, Rent of old Yamen in Kowloon Walled City, $1 per ammum,
Rent of old building in Kowloon Walled City, 81 per annum (N. K. 1. L, 28,
now used as a Mortuary by Church Missionary Society), Rent of old building in Kowloon Walled City, $1 per aunt
(N. K. I. L. 29,
now used as a hospital by the Church Missionary Society), Rent of old building in Kowloon City, Lot No. 6620, $1 per annum, Rent of No. 11, Tün Tsz-ha, Kowloon City, 85 per annum, Rent of Northern Room at the Eastern Street Pier, $3 per month, Reat of Government Buildings, Leighton Hill, 7% on salary and 83 for the
upkeep of the upper teunis court per month,
Rent of No. 4 Morrison Hill Road $110 per month,
Reat of Bungalow at Pine Wood Battery, Hatton Road, $40.00 per month,...... Rent of Waterworks Bungalow at Shaukiwan, $50.00 per month.... Rent of Sanitorium Bungalow, $100.00 per month,..................
C.S.0. No. 1546 of 1899. C.S.O. No. 1153 of 1906. C.S.O. No. 8215 of 1901. [C.8.0. No. 225 of 1902,
Extension.
C.S.O. No. 225 of 1902,
Extension.
C.S.O. No. 2315 of 1907, C.8,0. No. 7045 of 1911. C.8.0. No. 975 of 1916. C.5.0, No. 2407 of 1919,
and 2923 of 1918. C.S.O. No. 1544 of 1924,
and in 1544 of 1924. CS.O. No. 296 of 1924. C.S.O. No. 4 in 96 of 1925. C.8,0, No. 4 in 1471 of
1919.
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