380. THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH DECEMBER, 1863.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Schedule of Balances of Intestate Estates is published for general information, and Notice is hereby given that those Balances for which no application shall have been made within Twelve Months from this date, will be carried to the credit of the General Revenue of the Colony in terms of Section III of Ordinance No. 6 of 1854.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th December, 1863.
W..H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
SCHEDULE of unclaimed BALANCES of INTESTATE ESTATES of Persons who have been dead Five Years and upwards,
lying in the Colonial Treasury. Hongkong, 19th December, 1863.
NAME.
DATE OF DEATH.*
AMOUNT.
John Ward,
18th February, 1857,.
$83.18
Henry Ludlum,
Charles Henry,.
Thomas Murphy,
16th June,
1857,
1.91
29th
1857,
22.44
3rd July,
1857,
12.96
Lall Khan,
Joseph J. Aldridge,
J. B. Elliot,
William Haddon,.
Sopragalo,
Elli Bucas,.
11th
1857,
4.86
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17th August,
1857,
26.50
26th
1857
11.90
23rd September, 1857,
1.00
11th October,
1857,
13.33
17th
1857
144.47
Isaa☛ Bachelor,
22nd
1857
10.20
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John Larton or Lawton,
26th
1857,
1.27
John Abbott,
1st November, 1857,
10.80
Abdool Rahiman,
1st February, 1858,
4.90
Tow Choo,
11th March,
1858,
34.93
James Hunter,.
30th
1858,
14.06
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John Spelland or Spellane,.
30th
1858,
15.00
Gholam Senee,.
17th April,
1858,
12.65
No. 143.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At the request of Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, the following Notification is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th December, 1863.
NOTIFICATION.
W. H. ALEXANDER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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BRITISH CONSULATE, Canton, 22nd December, 1863
The undersigned having received the instructions of Her Majesty's Government respecting the further settlement of the Canton Claims on the Chinese Indemnity, the same are hereby notified for the information of those interested.
1st. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum is to be allowed on admitted claims from the date of loss, to the dates of payment of the Principal, which in the case of the Factory property will be from the 15th day of December, 1856, to the 22nd day of October, 1861 for the amount payable on the First Certificate issued by Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, and from the 15th day of December, 1856, to the 22nd day of October, 1862, on the amount of the Second Certificate: or, 4 years 312 days, and 5 years 312 days on the certificates respectively.
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2nd. Interest at the same rate to be paid on the other admitted claims from the time of loss to the 31st instant inclusive. 3rd. The sum allowed to be payable on presentation of a Certificate to the Officer in charge of the Treasury chest at Hongkong to be granted by the undersigned after the verification of the interest and the claims non-admitted.
4th. Each Claimant on receiving the Certificate for interest to give a receipt in acknowledgment thereof as accepted in full satisfaction of the claim to which it refers as per annexed form.
Subjoined is a list of the Claimants to whom the above arrangement applies who are requested to send to this Office the amount of their claims for interests for verification with as little delay as possible.
D. B. ROBERTSON, H. B. M.'s Consul for Cantan.
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