A SPECIAL Meeting of Ratepayers will he convened for the sume date as the forthcoming Annual Meeting of Ratepayers, when the following resolutions will brought forward by the Coun-
Resclutions 1 and 1/.—Formal business Resolution i17,—That Land Regulation [X in so far as it refers to the collection of Wharfage Dues and which at present reads:—And it shall also be competent to the said meeting or a majority thereof as aforesaid, fo impose other rates and taxes in the form of dues on all goods passed through the Chinese Custom-house by any person or persons resident within the seid limits, or landed, shipped or transhipped at any place within the id limits; provided the said rates or taxes levied in the form of dues shall in no case ex-weed the amount of one-tenth of one per cent. on the value of the goods so passed, Ianded, shipped or transhipped." be amended to read and it shall also be competent. to the said meeting or a majority thereof us aforesaid, to impose other rates and tay in the form of dues on all goods passed through the Chinese Customhouse by any person or persons resident within the said limits, or landed, shipped transhipped at any place within the said limits; provided the said rates ov taxes levied in the form of dues shall in no case exceed 3 per vent. of the Customs duty on the goods so passed, landed, shipped or transhipped."* and that the said amendment be communicated to the Consular Body with a request for its cooperation and support in obtaining a@s soon as possible the necessary sanction thereof. akesolution 1¥.—That the follow-
and numbered XNXVa:—ing Bye-law be passed, approved Printed Matter—Any person who shall print (which term shall for the purposes of this bye-law include any mechanical mode of reproduction) or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any newspaper pamphlet circular handi!) leaflet placard or other paper containing public news intelligence or occurrences or any remarks or observations thereon, and shall not prior to such printing or publishing have registered or caused to be registered, in the case of foreigners with the Consul of the nationality to which such person belongs and otherwise with the Municipal Council, his name and usual places of abode and business or shall knowingly. have made or ed to be made any misrepresentation or omission whereby such registration shall be misleading and-any person who printeany paper whatsoever which shall he meant to be published or dispersed and who shall not print upon the front of every such paper, if the same shall be printed upon one side only, or upon the first or last or editorial leaf of every paper which shall consist of more than one leaf, in legible characters, his name and usual places of abode and businwsk; and any person who shall publish or disperse, or assist in publishing or dispersing, any such paper on which the name and usual places of abode and business of the person printing the same shall not be printed as aforesaid. shall be liable to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars or to imprisonment not exceeding three months or to any such other penalty as shall be prescribed by the law to which such person is amenable." and that a copy of the said Bye-law be communicated to the Consular Body with request for its cooperation and support in obtaining as soon as possible the necessary sanction thereof.
Resolution ¥.—Thar By NXXIV be amended by inserting the words "stock or produce ex-chan, after the word "pawnshop." and that the said amendment be communicated to the Consular Body with a request for its cooperation and support in obtaining Fas soon as possible the necessary sanction thereof.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.