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HEGE 21 OCT 85,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 253.

In pursuance of The_Rating Ordinance 1875, the Governor in Council has fixed the Municipal Rates for the year ending June 30th, 1886, as follows:---

(1.) In the City of Victoria,-

Police Rate, Lighting Rate, Fire Brigade Rate, Water Rate...

8 per cent.

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2

Municipal Rates,

13 per cent.

(II.) At Victoria l'eak,-

Municipal Rates,

8 per cent.

(III.) In British Kaulung and other outlying Districts of the Colony,-

6 per cent.

Municipal Rates,

Municipal Rates will be payable quarterly in advance at the Treasury during the first month in each Quarter, and shall be charged on and recoverable from the owners of the Tenements in respect of which the above Assessments have been made.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th June, 1885.

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