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GENERAL POST-OFFICE, HONGKONG.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

Colonial Postage Stamps may be purchsed at the General Post-Office

These Stamps represent the following amounts in value :—

2 Cents, .or...... 1 Penny.

18 Centa,.. ...........or...... 9 Pence.

4

2 Pence.

24

1 Shilling.

3

36

.18 Pence.

31

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4

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2 Shillings.

12

6

96

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13

15

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 Hong- kong, or the Agencies thereof at Canton, Macao, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow-foo, Shang- hae, 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 Unit ed Kingdom.

They may be used on correspondence to places to which the prepayment of postage is either compulsory or optional; no credit will be given to these Stamps or correspon- dence addressed to places to which the postage cannot be prepaid in Hongkong.

All correspondence for places to which prepayment is compulzory must be prepaid in Hongkong Postage Stamps.

Insufficiently Stamped Letters addressed to the United Kingdom will be sent on, a fine of one killing being charged in addition to the postage due upon all such Letters as may be posted before 9 am on the day of the departure of the Packet.

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Insufficiently Stamped and unstamped correspondence addressed to plases to which it cannot be forwarded unpaid, will be opened and returned to the writers as early as ponible, but no guarantee can be given that such Letters, which may be posted on the morning of the departure of the Packet, will be returned until after the closing of the

Mail

The Postage Stamps should be placed on the upper right hand corner of the corres- pondence, except in cases where they may be used in payment of "Late Fees," when the Stamp or Stamps representing the late fee should be placed on the lower left hand corner of the correspondence.

All transactions in fractional parts of a Dollar will be conducted in the Coins pre- acribed by Ordinance 1 of 1864, and the Proclamation of the 22nd January, 1864, and no other Coins but those therein specified will either be received or givením charge as fractional parts of a Dollar.

Payment for Postage Stamps must be made in the current Dollars of the Colony of Bank Notes.

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