Hongkong Blue Book for the Year, 1902

This is a public registry document, the Hong Kong Blue Book for 1902, not a pulp magazine. It consists of administrative tables detailing colonial government fiscal structures. Contents include schedules of taxes, duties, and licensing fees organized by category: light dues on shipping; assessed property rates for various districts; licenses for occupations and commercial activities (auctioneers, billiard halls, boarding houses, boats and vessels classified by cargo capacity, carriages, Chinese emigration houses, hawkers, junks, marine dealers, money changers, pawnbrokers, spirit distilleries, and public houses); fees for marriage certificates; opium monopoly leases; and government revenue sources with citations to applicable ordinances and dates of implementation. Entries include specific monetary amounts and regulatory authorities under which fees were levied. The document is administrative and technical in nature, serving as official reference material for Hong Kong colonial administration.