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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH JANUARY, 1867.
Account of the average amount of Notes in Circulation at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, for
the month ending 31st December, 1866.
NOTES ISSUED,
SPECIE IN RESERVE,.
$697,559. ..$300,000.
V. KRESSER, Manager.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong, 7th January, 1867.
I hereby certify that I this day inspected the Books and Treasure of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and found the necessary amount of Specie as required by "The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance," No. 5 of 1866.
A. F. ALVES, Accountant.
Victoria, Hongkong, 11th January, 1867.
FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.
No. 192.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified that, in accordance with Section 12 of "The Police and Lighting Rate Ordinance, 1863," His Excellency the GOVERNOR, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, has fixed the Police Rate for the Year 1867 at Nine and a half 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.
The above Rate, 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 above Ordinance, and Water Rate of Two per cent per Annum under the Provisions of Ordinance No. 12 of 1860.
The Police, Lighting 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 assessment has been made.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th December, 1866.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 193.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Complaints having been made of the danger to life and property arising from the acts of certain persons recently visiting Victoria Peak, and other places in this Island, who inconsiderately set fire to the grass on the hills, it is hereby notified that in all future cases the offenders will be proceeded against according to Law.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th December, 1866.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
CROWN RENTS.
Crown Lessees are reminded that the period allowed to pay into the Treasury the Rents due on the 25th instant expires on the 15th proximo (January, 1867.)
Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 28th December, 1866.
FREDK. FORTH,
Treasurer.
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