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APPENDIX.
GENERAL POST-OFFICE, HONGKONG.
POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.
1. Colonial Postage Stamps may be purchased at the Treasury and General Post Office. 2. These Stamps represent the following amounts in value :—
Two Cents,. . .
Eight Cents.... Twelve Cente... Eighteen Cents,.
.or One Penny. Four l'ence.
.Six Pence, Nine l'ence.
Twenty four Cents.......... Forty-eight ( ́ents,.. Ninety-six Coats,....
3. They will be issued in exchange for the Current Dollars of the Colony.
One Shillings Two Sbillings. Four Shillings.
4. It must be understood that the Postage Labels of this Colony are alone available for the payment of postage on correspondence posted at the General Post Office in Hongkong, or the Agencies thereof at Whampoa, Canton, Macao, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow-foo, Shanghae, Ningpo, Nagasaki, and Yedo; and that, except in the case of correspondence sent by Officers and Seamen, serving on board Her Majesty's Ships, British or Imperial Postage Stamps are not available for the payment of letters, &c., addressed to the United Kingdom.
5. Their use will for the present be optional.
6. They may be used on correspondence to places to which the prepayment of postage is either compulsory or optional, i. e, no credit will be given to these Stamps on correspondence addressed to places to which the postage cannot be prepaid in Hongkong.
7. Correspondence insufficiently stamped will be returned to the writers with an indication of the amount insufficient, except in the case of letters, &c., originating at any of the Agencies of the Hongkong Post Office, which will, if addressed to the United Kingdom, be sent on charged with the deficient amount of postage and a fine of la.
8. The Labels are to be placed on the UFFER RIGHT HAND corner of the correspondence, except in cases where they may be used in payment of "Late Fees," when the Stamp representing the Late Fee is to be placed on the LOWER LEFT HAND corner of the correspondence.
RATES OF POSTAGE.
To ITALY, SARDINIA, TUSCANY, &c., via Malta.[
Italy (except those places in the
Eardinia, Tuscany, Naples. Sicily,
CHINA, JAPAN, MANILA, &c.
Parma, Modena, Romagna,
nezi column.)
Umbria, and Marchés.
Under ounce,
Us. 4 d.
Above
Under Above
ounce,
£0
1 8
Under
ounce,
£0 0 8
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not exced. 1 oz. 0 8
2 "
0 1 10
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0 1 8
2
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19
19
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0 3 0
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0 7 0
0 3
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0 7 2
0 3
0 7 4
44
5
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12
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0 10 6
0 14 2
0 17 10
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5 2
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12 8 0
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0
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14
9 4
#
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0 15 0
0 15 4
0 15 8
And so ou, adding 8d. for every
ounce, or fraction of an ounce.
19
Newspapers Id. each for the conveyance from Hongkong to
Malta, and Id. for 2 ounces for the conveyance from Malta to Italy.
"
14
+
"
Newspapers cannot be prepaid.
Newspapers, Id, each.
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