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Government Gazette.

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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 24TH AUGUST, 1895.

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No. 40.

VOL. LXI

號十四第

日五初月七年未乙 日四十二月八年五十九百八千一 簿一十四第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 363.

The following Resolution passed by the Legislative Council on the 16th instant, under Section 30 of Ordinance 15 of 1888, is published for general information :-

1. That the percentages on the valuation of tenements in Yaumati and Kowloon Point at present payable as rates under The Rating Ordinance, 1888, as amended by Ordi- nance 5 of 1892 be altered from 101 per cent. to 12 per cent."

2. "That the percentages on the valuation of tenements in Hung Hom at present payable as rates under The Rating Ordinance, 1888, as amended by Ordinance 5 of 1892 be altered from 83 per cent. to 10 per cent."

3. That the percentages on the valuation of tenements in Mong Kok Tsui at present payable as rates under The Rating Ordinance, 1888, as amended by Ordinance 5 of 1892 be altered from 7 per cent. to 9 per cent.

The Governor has been pleased to fix the 1st of October, 1895, as the date for the Resolution to come into effect.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1895.

J. II. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 364.

Ordinance No. 18 of 1895.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of [Tongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled "The River Steamers Ordinance.'

Ordinance No. 19 of 1895.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to prohibit the defacing or chopping of British Dollars.

Ordinance No. 20 of 1895.-—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Trade Marks Ordinances (Nos. 16 of 1873 and 8 of 1886).

Ordinance No. 21 of 1895.-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to further amend The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, No. 26 of

1891.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th August, 1895.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.