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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2nd DECEMBER, 1871.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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His Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, K.C.M.G., C.B., being expected by the incoming French Mail, the Community are invited to attend His Excellency's landing at the Government Wharf, which will probably take place shortly after the Steamer shall have anchored.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd December, 1871.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that, in accordance with Section 12 of "The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863," His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, has fixed the Police Rate for the Year 1872, at 7 per cent for Houses in the City of Victoria; and, in accordance with Section 18 of the same Ordinance, at Five per cent for Houses in the Villages
of this Island.
His Excellency has also, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, and in accordance with the Provisions of Ordinance No. 4 of 1868, fixed the Fire Brigade Rate at 2 per cent for Houses in the City of Victoria.
The above Rates, as regards Houses in Victoria, will be levied exclusive of a Lighting Rate of One-and-a-half per cent under Section 12 of the first named Ordinance, and a Water Rate of Two per cent per annum under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 12 of 1860.
The Police, Lighting, Fire Brigade, and Water Rates will, under Terms of the Ordinances, 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,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd December, 1871.
No. 169.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In accordance with the Provisions of Sections II and III of Ordinance No. 12 of 1856, entitled "An Ordinance to regulate Chinese Burials, and to prevent certain Nuisances, within the Colony of Hongkong," His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor in Executive Council is pleased to notify that,-
A Plot of land defined by four Boundary Stones, situated about one Quarter of a mile to the North-east of the Village of Yau-ma-Tee, in British Kowloong, has been set apart as a Chinese Burial Ground, and from this date this will be the only Place, in which it shall be lawful for the Chinese Inhabitants of British Kowloong to inter their dead.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd December, 1871.
No. 163.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Friday the 22nd of December next, for the privilege of Farming all Granite Quarries in Hongkong, and Kowloong, during the Year 1872.
Persons desirous of tendering are directed to call at the Surveyor General's Office where the conditions can be ascertained, and a proper Form of Tender obtained.
No Tenders will be received unless the person tendering shall produce a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $550 as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown if such person shall refuse to carry out his Tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th November, 1871.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
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