CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 103

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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as

The British sea rate is concerned,

His grace, with the concurrence

Lords of

of Fina

The Treasury, proposes to

fix it at 8t per 22 03: letter, and at

2th per 4 ozs: for hewspapers. Books

and Patterns, and he would

1

Vaggest as fair and reasonable

That the Colonial Inland rate

should be fixed at 2d per 1⁄2 oz:

d

letter, and 2th per 4ogs: for

newspapers &e. If the fovernment

of

The Straits Settlements concur.

The following would be the

combined rates to be collected in

advance upon the correspondence

queation: _

1. On a single letter not exceeding

1⁄2oz : in weight. _

tãozi

2.

3.

Colonial Internal rate...

Sea rate

2

ď

P

Total

d

10

On a newspaper not exceeding

4035:

Colonial Internal rate

Sea rate.

L

2

2

Fotial

l

4

On a Book Packet or Packet of

Patterns not exceeding 4 ozs.

Colonial Internal rate

Sea rate

f

Total 4d

2

2

combined

a

further

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