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General Post-Office, Hongkong.

REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE POST MASTER-GENERAL ON THE 18TH DECEMBER, 1867.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.

Colonial Postage Stamps may be purchased at the General Post-Office. The Stamps represent the following amount in value :--

Four Cents........Two Pence.

Two Cents

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One Penny.

Six Cents...

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Three Pence.

Eight Cents.... . .

.Four Pence.

Twelve Cents......Six Pence.

Eighteen Cents...... .Nine Pence. Twenty-four Ceuts....One Shilling. Thirty Cents. .......Fifteen Pence. Forty-eight Cents.....Two Shillings. Ninety-six Cents...... Four Shillings.

It must 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 Canton, Macao, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow-foo, Shanghai, Ningpo, Nagasaki, and Yokohama, 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.

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

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

Insufficiently Stamped Letters addressed to the United Kingdom will be sent on, a fine of one shilling being charged in addition to the postage due upon all such Letters as may be posted before 11 A.M. on the day of the sailing of the Packet.

Letters posted after 11 A.M. will not be forwarded unless the Late Fee of 18 cents, as well as the postage, is prepaid.

Insufficiently stamped, and unstamped, correspondence, addressed to places, to which it cannot be forwarded unpaid. will be opened and returned to the writers as early as possible, 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 prescribed 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 given in change as fractional parts of a Dollar.

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

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