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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,.

35

50 70

11

"

100 150

"

On other Countries in dollars or yens :—

Orders up to $ 10,

$0.20 cents.

0.40 0.60 + 0.80 #

$1.00

.30.20 cents.

0.40 0.60 **

"

Act of Colonial Logislature or other Authority under which levied.

· Ordinanca 1 of 1987.

$ 25,

*

$ 35,

"1

$ 50,

$ 60,

:

75,

19

$ 85, $100,

On the Australian Colonies :-

Orders up to £1,

12 cents.

*

£2,

.........24

"}

£3,

.........36

"

£4,

*

***.48

+

£5,

GO

J

27

0.80

39

$1.00

.$1.20

37

$1.40 .$1.60 +

12

Orders up to £ 6,.........72 cents.

33

15

#7

"

£ 7,.........84

£8,.........96 £9,..... .$1.08 £10,.........$1.20

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

11

"

Orders up to £ 6.30.48 cents.

**

Orders up to £1,

.$0.08 cents.

£2,

15

£3,

0.16 0.24

15

11

**

£4,

77

"J

£5,

0.32 0.40

•

1+

**

13

LOCAL POSTAL NOTES,—

£ 7....... 0.56

£8....... 0.64

50

£ 9,...... 0.72 £10, 0.80 **

Commission clurged on issue of a 25-cent note,..

1 cent.

1

11

Government Notifiention No. 607 of 31st Doc., 1898.

Government Notification

No. 29 of 18th Jan., 1895.

Government Notification

No. 517 of 6th Dec., 1895.

2 cents.

Government Notification

No. 441 of 1st Doc., 1893.

50

**

+

$ 1.00

**

15

$ 2.00

13

$ 3.00

6

13

#

"

$ 4.00

8

**

+

"

$ 5,00 $10.00

10 .20

"

"3

++

RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES.

BUILDINGS,

Rent of Whitfeild Station, $360 per aunum,

Rent of Old Government Pavilion, Peak, $200 per annum,

Rent of 1st floor of 121 Wing Lok St., (rented to Nam Pak llong Committee),

$180 per annum.

LANDS NOT LEASED:-

Villagers and Squatters' Holdings inside City

of Victoria,

$1 per annum for 150 square feet.

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 Hongkong and Kowloon, at 75 cents per annum per Mow

=7334 square yarıls,

STONE QUARRIES:—

Lensed to the highest bidder by Tender for five years from 1st January, 1902,

to 31st December, 1906.

Hongkong, Kowloon,

$10,875.00 per amunin. .$11,550.00 per ammun.

also-Mu Tau Kok lensed to Messrs. Pnuebard & Lowther for four years from 1st January, 1902, renewable for one or two years, .....$ 3,600,00 per anTHIM.

LEASED LANDS :—

Crown Rents on Lands leased for periods varying from 21 to 75 years,

SLAUGHTER-HOUSES:-

Sole privilege of slaughtering onimals for the food of man within the Colony granted to the highest bidder by Tender for one year from 1st January to 31st December, 1901, for $54,060,

C.S.O, No. 549 of 1891. C.S.O. No. 1239 of 1897. CS.O. No. 1546 of 1899.

Ordinance 8 of 1858,

Section 20.

Government Notification

No,746 of 30th Nov., 1901, and C.S.0. 176 of 1901.

The leases are disposed of at Public Auction Sales, held in accord- ance with Notifications. Ordinance 17 of 1887.

Sec. 8; Govt. Not. 494 of 1900 mund C.8.0. Confidential 44 of 1900.