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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

POST OFFICE,—Continued.

Box RENTS :—

$10 per annum for a small sized privato box at the General Post Office, $20

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Demurrage on Parcels :—. Any parcel remaining nuclaimed 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.

Fee for Certificate for reception of mail matter

Fee for the return of each postal packet

MONEY ORDERS :—

Rates of Commission chargeable on Money Orders.

$2 a year ........$1,00

The commission to be charged on the issue of Money Orders payable in Hong Kong and Mueno 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 for equivalent of the monut), in dollars, with a minimum charge of 10 cents.

Advice of payment of Money Orders,

25 cents for cach Order.

The charges for Telegraph Money Orders issued in Hong Kong on Great Britain

only 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 deferred rate for

telegrams addressed to the country of payment.

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

Radio TeleGRAPHS,—

Message fees in accordance with current tariff.

RAILWAYS :—

Kowloon-Canton Railway Fores, Freight, etc., according to the Tariff.

RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND, AND HOUSES.

BUILDINGS —

Rent of upper floor of No. 135 Boulum Strand, $15 per month, Rent of building in Kowloon Walled City, N. K. I. L. 15, $1 per annum,................ Rent of two Peak Chair-coolie Houses, nt Victoria Gap, $60 per mouth, Rent of old Yamen in Kowloon Walled City, $1 per annum, ....................................................... Ront of old building in Kowloon Walled City, $2 per annum (N. K. 1. L, 28,

now used as a Mortuary by Church Missionary Society), Rent of old building in Kowloon Walled City, $2 per annum (N. K. I. L. 29,

now used as a hospital by the Church Missionary Society), Rent of old buikding in Kowloon City, Lot No. 6620, §1 per unnum.................................. Rent of Government Buildings, Leighton Hill, 7% on salary per month, Reat of Bungalow at Pine Wood Battery, Hatton Road, 6% on salary per month, Rent of World Theatre on I.L. 2323, 82,840,00 per month, 1.1.39-31,8.39.... $3.500.00 per month, 1,9.39-31.12.39... Rent of Kau U Fong on I.L. 1858, $937.50 per month, 1.1.39-31.3.39....................... $1250.00 per month, 1.4.39-31.12.39......

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Rent of White House, Taipo, $75.00 per month, Rent of Tsang Foo Villa, Po Kong, Kowloon City,

$200.00 per month. 1.1.39-31.5.39... $300,00 per month, 1.6.39-31,12,89...

Old Central British School, $1100.00 per month, Government Building on Sec. A of I.L. 754, $8,00 per month,.

Ordinance 7 of 1926.

Ordinance No. 21 of 1909. as amended by Ordin- ance No. 28 of 1927, Ordinance No. 5 of 1934, and Ordinance No: 35 of 1934,

C.S.O. No. 1546 of 1899. C.S.O. No. 1153 of 1906, C.S.O. No. 8215 of 1904. C.S.O. No. 225 of 1902,

Extension,

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

Extension.

C.8.0. No, 2315 of 1907. C.8.0. No. 2407 of 1919

and 2923 of 1918. C.S.O. No. 296 of 1924. C.S.O. No. 1396 of 1920.

C.S.O. No. 2/4465 of 1905.

C.S.O. No. 294 of 1921.