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(i) parcels;
(j) payment of postage;
(k) postal notes and postal orders;
(1) private boxes
(m) private travelling letter boxes;
(n) prohibited articles and their treatment and
disposal;
(o) registration;
(p) stamps, reply coupons, and stamped envelopes,
postcards and wrappers;
(q) undelivered postal articles;
(r) the prescribing of any fees which may appear to the Governor in Council to be desirable in connexion with the maintenance of a postal service;
(s) any other matters in respect of which it may appear to the Governor in Council to be desir- able to make regulations for the purpose of the maintenance of a postal service.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a re- solution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such.re- gulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such reso lution.
4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Appointment Postmaster General and such other officers of the Post of officers. Office as he may think fit.
5. The Postmaster General and all other officers of Confirmation the Post Office who were appointed under any previous of certain Post Office Ordinance and who continued to hold office appoint- up to the commencement of this Ordinance are hereby ments. confirmed in their respective offices and shall have all the powers and privileges conferred by this Ordinance upon the holders of their respective offices.
6. (1) The Postmaster General, by himself or by Exclusive the officers of the Post Office, shall have the exclusive privilege of privilege of―
Postmaster General.
(a) conveying letters from one place to another 8 Edw. 7,
within the Colony;
(b) sending letters out of the Colony for delivery
outside the Colony ;
(c) receiving letters brought in the Colony for
delivery in the Colony; and
(d) receiving letters brought into the Colony for transmission to some place outside the Colony, other than letters contained in mail bags passing through the waters of the Colony without transhipment,
and shall also have the exclusive privilege of perform- ing all the incidental services of receiving, collecting, sending, despatching and delivering all such letters, except in the following cases :--
(i) letters not exceeding three in number sent by a private friend on his way, journey or travel, provided that such letters are delivered by that
c. 48. ss. 30, 34 (2).