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General Post-Office, Hongkong.

RATES OF POSTAGE, NOTIFICATIONS, &c.

REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE POST MASTER-GENERAL ON THE 10TH DECEMBER, 1869.

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS.

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

Two Cents.........One Penny. Four Cents................. Two Penoe.

Six Cents

Three Pence.

Eight Cents....... Four Pence.

Twelve Cents......Six Pence.

Eighteen Cents......Nine Pence. Twenty-four Cents...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, Hirgo, 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 optional, no credit will be given to these Stamps on correspondence addressed to places to which the postage cannot be prepaid in Hongkong,

All Letters posted between 7 and 8 A.M. on the day of the sailing of the Packet are chargeable, in addition to the usual postage, with a Late Fee of 18 cents.

The latest time for posting Letters at this Office is 8 A.M. and for Newspapers, Books, or Patterns 7 A.M. on the day of the sailing of the Packet,

Further, Late Letters (but Letters only) addressed to the United Kingdom, viâ Marseilles, or to Singapore, may be posted on board the Packet from 8.30 to 8.50 AM, on payment of a Late Fee of 48 cents each in addition to the postage, after w.hich no Letters can be received.

Sealed Boxes containing the correspondence of Box Holders are received at the window set apart for the purpose on the East side of the building.

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 scnt on, charged with a fine of One Shilling in addition to the Postage.

Letters posted after 7 A.M. on the day of the sailing of the Packet will not be forwarded, unless the Late Fee as well as the postage is prepaid.

Letters insufficiently Stamped or unstamped addressed to places to which they 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, if posted after 8 P.M. on the day prior to the departure of each Packet, will be returned until after the mail is closed.

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 Stamps or Stamps representing Late Fees or Registration Fees should be placed on

the lower left hand corner.

All transactions in fractional parts of a Dollar will be conducted in the Coins prescribed by Ordinance No. 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 Stamp Juust be made in the current Dollars of the Colony or Bank Notes.

Money Orders on any of the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom will be granted until 5 P.M. on the day prior to the departure of each Packet.

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