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Hongkong, 23rd December, 1879.

No. 261.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH DECEMBER, 1879.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Notice is published for general

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By Command,

W. H. MARSH,

三年八

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

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輔政使司馬 爲

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總巡捕廳田

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曉諭事照得現奉

督憲將以下公報

週以有年東年

以補費用爲此特諭俾衆 有人到認卽將該物沽 年正月初一日之先仍未 東街遺棄者倘於西曆來 年英十月二十日在松秀 玻璃鏡鏡架等物卽於本 諭知事照得現有無主之

衆沽

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諭年

杪印俾衆週知

POLICE NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that, unless certain Looking Glasses, Picture Frames, &c., &c., aban- doned in house No. 20, Ts'ung-sau Lane, East,

on the 20th October, 1879, are claimed before

the 1st January, 1880, the same -will be sold to pay expenses.

22nd December, 1879.

W. M. DEANE,

Captain Superintendent of Police.

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No.262.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

It is hereby notified that, in accordance with "The Rating Ordinance, 1875," His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, has fixed the Police Rate for the Year 1880, at Seven and three quarters per cent. for Houses in the City of Victoria, and at Five per cent. for Houses in British Kowloon and the outlying Villages of the Colony; and the Lighting Rate at One and a half per cent., the Fire Brigade Rate at Three quarters per cent., and the Water Rate at Two per cent. per annum, for Houses in the City of Victoria.

The Police, Lighting, Fire Brigade, and Water Rates will be payable Quarterly in advance at the Colonial Treasury, between the first and last

Days of the first Month in each Quarter.

These several Rates shall be charged and chargeable on, and recoverable from, the Owners

of the Tenements in respect of which the above Assessments have been made.

By Command,

W. H. MARSH,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 23rd December, 1879.