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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND DECEMBER, 1894.

1087

Brought forward, $2,043,031

Public Works, Extraordinary, viz. :—

Central Market,

$45,000

Erection of Queen's Statue,

8,500

Praya Reclamation, (Government

Contribution),

40,000

Slaughter-House, and Sheep and Pig

Depôts,

13,000

Gaol Extension,

34,000

New Water Mains,

5,000

Sewerage of Victoria,

64,500

Water Supply, Kowloon Peninsula,

29,000

Tytam Water Works Extension,-

60,000

Extension, MacDonnell and Austin

Roads, Kowloon,

4,000

Kowloon Cattle Depôt,

7,500

Village Water, Drainage, and Sewer-

age Works,

12,000

Central Police Station, additional

Quarters, &c.,

-

17,000

Signalling Station and Lines of

Communication,

3,670

343,170

Total,

$2,386,201

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 17th

day of December, 1894.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency, the Goveruor, the 19th

day of December, 1894.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Szeretary.

No. 10 or 1894.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council thereof, to further amend The Post Office Ordinance, 1887.

LS

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

[22nd December, 1894.]

Batvice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the

as follows:-

1. This Ordinance shall be read and construed together with The Post Office Ordinance, 1887, (as amended by Ordinance 22 of 1889), hereinafter referred to as the priu- cipal Ordinance.

2. Notwithstanding anything in the principal Ordinance contained, any correspondence tendered for conveyance by post or posted, which contains or bears any facsimile or imitation or representation of any postage stamp or any fictitious postage stamp, or any correspondence tendered for conveyance by post or posted purporting to be prepaid with any postage stamp, which has been used to prepay or appears to have been used to prepay any other correspondence, may be detained by any officer of the Post Office or person employed by or under the Post Office and may be returned or given up to the sender or otherwise dealt with or dis- posed of in such mauner as the Postmaster General may direct.

3. The Governor may, subject to any instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies or from the Imperial Postmaster General, from time to time, make, alter and repeal in relation to correspondence sent by post, regula- tions prohibiting the conveyance or sending by any corres- pondence of such articles as he may think fit. Such regula- tions shall be published in the Gazette and shall have no effect until so published. Any infraction or infringement

Title.

Construction.

Fower to detain, &c., correspond- ence bearing fictitions stamps, c.

Regulation ns to prohibited articles.