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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TM AUGUST, 1898.

No. 14 OF 1898.

An Ordinance to provide for the punishment of

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certain conspiracies.

WILSONE BLACK,

Officer Administering the Government,

[13th August, 1898.]

Punishment of certain

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. Where any person is convicted, in the Supreme Court, of conspiring to cheat or defraud, or to extort money or conspiracies. goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the course of public justice, he shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three years, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to both.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 3rd day of August, 1898.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 13th day of August, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 360.

The following is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th August, 1898.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

POSTAL NOTES.

1. Postal Notes of the values named below, payable within three months at any Post Office in the United Kingdom, or at Constantinople, can be obtained at Hongkong or at any British Post Office in China at the following prices, which include Commission :

1/-... 1/6.

5/-

10/- 20/-......

54 cents.

81

$ 2.70 ..$ 5.40

..$10.80

may

2. The purchaser of any Postal Note must fill in the Payee's name before parting with it. He If this is not done the note is also fill in the name of the Office where payment is to be made. payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom, or at Constantinople. Any Postal Note may be crossed to a Bank.

3. Postal Notes should always be forwarded in Registered Covers. If this precaution is not

any Note. taken NO ENQUIRIES WHATEVER will be made as to the loss or alleged loss of

4. Postal Notes issued in the United Kingdom are NOT payable in Hongkong or China.

GENERAL Post Office,

iloNGKONG, 9th August, 1898,