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No. 42.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH APRIL, 1869.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on the 26th Instant, for certain Alterations and Additions to the Quarters occupied by the Staff at the Victoria Gaol.

Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th April, 1869.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary,

No. 43.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office, until Noon on the 26th Instant, for Levelling the Site for the New Police Station at the Gap, also for the erection of the same Building.

Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Surveyor General's Office, where also a proper Form of Tender may be obtained.

By Command,

i

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th April, 1869.

No. 40.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Regulations for Street-Chairs and Chair-Coolies are published for general in- formation.

By Command,

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1869.

There are two Classes of Street Chairs, Ordinary and Special. All Street-Chairs may carry Persons who have engaged them up to any hour, but Ordinary Chairs may not ply for hire after first gunfire, (8 P.M.), nor Special Chairs after midnight.

As Special Chairs are secured for a higher sum ($50) than Ordinary Chairs ($25), it is for the interest of the Public to engage only the former after gunfire.

Each Street-Chair carries a Number, and its two Coolies a Badge each, bearing the same Number as the Chair.

The Numbers and Coolies' Badges of Special Chairs are WHITE, (1 to 200.)

The Numbers and Coolies' Badges of Ordinary Chairs are BLUE, (201 to 700.)

When ground of Complaint arises against any Street Chair-Coolie, the Person aggrieved may either hand the Offender over to the Police, or send a memorandum of the complaint and the Chair's Number to the Registrar General.

When Street Chair-Coolies are suspected of having retained missing property, the Number of their Chair should be sent to the Registrar General at once without any loss of time.

Each Street-Chair carries on the back of its Number Board a Tariff of Fares condensed from the following.

LEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, CHAIR BEARERS, AND BOATS, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.

CHAIRS, OR ORDINARY PULLAWAY BOATS.

12 cents.

Half hour, Three hours,

.50 cents.

Hour, Six hours,

Day (from 6 to 6),

Night Fares (after 8 P.M.),

20 cents.

.75 cents.

One Dollar. .10 cents extra.

Beyond Victoria and back,

To Stanley and back,

CHAIR HIRE TO OUT DISTRICTS.

..50 cents per Man. ..60 cents per Man.

Victoria lics below the level of Robinson Road, and includes all the town between the Mint and the Western Slaughter House, with the Race-course,

Hour,.

.8 cents.

LICENSED BEARERS (EACH.) Half day,

.20 cents.

Day,..

Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, 1st April, 1869.

.36 cents.