SUPPLEMENT
To the HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE of 5th January, 1884.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 4.
His Excellency the Governor has been directed by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies to give notice that communications are now taking place between IIer Majesty's Govern- ment and that of Siam as to the date to be fixed for bringing into operation the Agreement of 6th April last (published in Government Gazette No. 24 of 26th May last) for regulating the traffic in spirituous liquors between the two countries.
The scale of excise duties which the Siamese Government propose to levy under this Agreement is at the rate of seventy two cents of a Mexican Dollar per gallon on the sale of all spirits not exceed- ing 30 degrees of alcoholic strength.
Government Notification No. 374 of 14th November last is hereby cancelled.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th January, 1884.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
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