No. 179.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH DECEMBER, 1871. 543
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Under Provisions of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, Notice is hereby given that a Special Session of the Justices of the Peace will be held at the Police Magistrates' Court, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of Thursday, the 11th day of January next; and thereafter, on the First Thursday of every month, for the purpose of considering applications for granting or transferring Spirit Licenses during the Year 1872.
Such applications to be lodged at the Police Magistrates' Court at least Ten days before each of the Sessions now notified,
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th December, 1871.
No. 169.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
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-na-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.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretory.
No. 168.
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 73 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 Moath 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,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd December, 1871.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 167.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The subjoined Post Office Notice is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd December, 1871.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
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