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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND AUGUST, 1863.

RATES OF POSTAGE

To be collected in Hong Kong, henceforward, upon Letters forwarded by the Vessels of the Messageries Imperiales.

223

DESTINATION.

Not

exceeding 1 oz.

Above

oz. and not

Above

oz. and not

exceeding exceeding

oz.

2 oz.

Above 2 oz. and not exceeding 1 oz.

8. d.

s. d.

8. d.

United Kingdom

0 0

1

4

~0

8. d.

2 8

I'nited State of America (through England).

0 0

2 0

об

4 0

France or Algeria..

0 8

1 4

2 0

2 8

Spain

0 9

1 6

2 3

3 0

Portugal

Luxemburg

Baden

The Netherlands

Belgium

Rhenish Prussia Bavaria.

Wurtemburg.

German States; viz., Hohenzollern, Birkenfeld, Hesse Homburg, Lippe Detmold, Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, Rouss, Nassau, Saxe Coburg Gotha, Saxe Meiningen-Hildburghausen, Hesse Electoral, Hesse Darmstadt, Saxe Weimar-Eisenach, Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Ham- burgh, Bremen, and Lubeck

Switzerland

Sardinia

Prussia (the Rhenish Provinces excepted)

Hanover

0 10

1 8

2 6

3 4

Saxony

Mecklenburg Schwerin.

1 0

20

3 0

4 0

Mecklenburg Strelitz

Brunswick...

Oldenburg (the Principality of Birkenfeld excepted). Anhalt

Austrian Dominions and Belgrade

Denmark

1 1

2 2.

3 3

4 4

Southern Italy

Servia (Belgrade excepted)

1 1

2 2

3 3

4 4

Montenegro

Moldavia

Wallachia

Turkey in Europe (the places at which France maintains Post Offices

excepted) via Austria

1 7

3 2

4 9

6 4

Sweden

Norway

Poland

Russia

Aden and Malta

Suez

Alexandria..

Ceylon, Calcutta, Madras, Pondicherry and Saigon

Singapore and Penang.

Shanghae

Australian Colonies (via Galle)

OLLO000

0

1

0

0

0 0

0 0

0

0 0

0 8

0

0

1

0000000

2 0

1

4

0 8

1 4

2 0

The postage upon Letters for Spain, Portugal, Servia, (Belgrade excepted,) and Montenegro, or for Foreign Countries beyond Sea, must be paid in advance. Letters for the other Countries specified may either be paid in advance or forwarded unpaid at the option of the Sender.

REGISTERED LETTERS.

Letters addressed to all those Countries and Places to which, according to the foregoing Table, the entire postage to destination can be paid in advance, may be registered at the desire of the Senders, and in such case the postage must be so prepaid, and at double the rates of postage chargeable for ordinary Letters.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1863.

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.