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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

LANDS NOT LEASED (Permits for Encroachments, etc.) :—

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 aunum for 300 square feet.

Cultivated Lands in Ilongkong and Kowloon, at 72 cents per aunum per Mow

=733 square yards,

Land RevenuE, New Territories,-Crown Rents.

LAUNDRIES,...........

LEASED LANDS (Crown Rent exclusive of New Territories)

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Ordinance 1 of 1845,

Section 9 (1).

$15 per month.

C.S.O. No.:853 of 1905.

Crown: Rents on Lauds leased for periods varying from 1 to 75 years,

MARKETS:-

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

PIERS :-

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

Ordinance 1 of 1903

Section 78,

In the City of Victoria.

For encroachments of 500 square feet or less,

For encroachments exceeding 5,000 square feet, but not exceeding 10,000

square feet,

For encroachments exceeding 3,000 square feet, but not exceeding 5,000

square feet,

For encroachments exceeding 2,000 square feet, but not exceeding 3,000

square feet,

For encroachments exceeding 1,000 square feet, but not exceeding 2,000

square feet,

For encroachments exceeding 500 square feet, but not exceeding 1,000

square feet,

Annual rent.

$ 120

.$.180

.$ 300

$.480

Ordinance :11 of 1899.

$ 660

$900

For encroachments exceeding 10,000 square feet,

.$1,200

Piers and Wharves outside of the City of Victoria will be subject to payments calculated at one-half the above scale.

PINEAPPLE Licences

SLAUGHTER-HOUSES:—

..$3 per acre.

Sole privilege of slaughtering animals for the food of man within any part of the Colony other than the City of Victoria and other, than those portions of the New Territories which are not included in New Kowloon,.granted to the highest bidder by Tender for one year from 1st January to 31st December, 1908, for $11,232.00,

Sole privilege of the daily collection and removal of blood and hair from the Slaughter-house situated at Kennedy Town in the City of Victoria granted to the highest bidder by Tender for one year from 1st January to 31st December, 1908, for $7,356.00,

Depôts for Cattle, Pigs, Sheep and Goats,-

The fee payable for each head of cattle housed for removal in a Government Depôt within the limits of the City of Victoria shall bo fifty cents, and the fee payable for each pig, sheep or goat similarly housed for removal shall be ten

cents.

STONE QUARRIES :-

Lensed to the highest bidder by Tender for three years from 1st January, 1907,

to 31st December, 1909,—

Hongkong,........

Kowloon,

.$9,810.00 per annum. .$9,970.00 per annum.

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Ordinance 1 of 1903, Government Not. No. 813 of 1906 and C.S.O. 7441 of 1906.

Govt. Not. No. 812 of 1906 & C.S.O. 7440 of 1906.

Depôts for Cattle, Pigs, Sheep and Goats Bye-laws contained in Schedule B of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.

Government Notification No. 962 of 1906, and C.S.O. 8228 of 1906.