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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH AUGUST, 1863.

RATES OF POSTAGE

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

DESTINATION.

Not

exceeding

Above 1 oz. and not

Above

oz. and not

Above 3 oz. and not

1102.

exceeding exceeding exceeding

30Z.

3 oz.

1 oz.

35 dir

s d.

d.

United Kingdom

0 0

1

4.

s. du 0:00

8. d. 8

United State of America (through England).

0 0

2. 0.

0 0.

4. 0

France or Algeria...

0 8

1. 4

2 0

2 8

Spain

0 9

1 6

2 3

30

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

0 10

1 8

2 6

3 4

Sardinia

Prussia (the Rhenish Provinces excepted)

Hanover

Saxony

Mecklenburg Schwerin.

1 0

2' 0

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

Southern Italy

Servia (Belgrade excepted)

1 I

2 2

3 3

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

0

Alexandria.

Ceylon, Calcutta, Madras, Pondicherry and Saigon

Singapore and Penang.

Shanghae

Australian Colonies (viá Galle)

OHHOOOH

0

0.0

0 0

0 0

0 0

0

0 0

$

0 0

1

0

2 0

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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 inust be prepaid, and at double the rates of postage chargeable for ordinary Letters.

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

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.