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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.
or obscene prints, paintings, photographis, lithographs, engravings, books or cards or of other indecent or obscene articles, or of letters, newspapers, supplements, publica- tions, packets or post cards having thereon or on the covers thereof any words, marks or designs of an indecent, obscene, libellous or grossly offensive character; and for pro- hibiting the receiving in and delivery by the Post Office of correspondence contain- ing or believed to contain any lottery ticket or any advertisement of prizes or any other announcement relating to any publie lottery sweepstakes or other gambling transaction."
Repeals see- 5. Sections 26 and 27 of the Principal Ordinance tions 26 and are hereby repealed and the Following section substituted
27 of the
Principal
Ordinance
and new section substituted therefor.
Gratuities to ship masters.
Adds a new section 12a
to the
Principal Ordinance.
Power to deal with postal arti-
les contain-
ing contra
band goods.
Adds new
therefor
-26. The Postmaster General shall pay to every master of a vessel, not being a contract vessel, a gratuity of one cent for every letter and other article, other than a parcel, and five cents for every parcel delivered to him by the Post Office: Provided that the gratuity payable on correspondence trans- mitted to Canton and Macao shall be one cent only on each description of corres- pondence. The Postmaster General may bofore paying any gratuity require à receipt accounting for the due delivery at its destination of such correspondence and may also require proof to his satisfaction that there has been no unreasonable delay on the part of the master."
6. The following section shall be inserted in the Principal Ordinance after section 12 thereof:-
12. If the Postmaster General shall have reason to believe that any postal article received from beyond the limits of the Colony contains goods, the importation of which is forbidden or restricted or anything liable to duty or if he be so informed, he shall require by notice in writing the at- tendance at the Post Office, at a specified time, of the addressee of such postal article or of some agent deputed in writing by such addressee and such postal article shall then be opened by the addressee or his agent in the presence of the Postmaster General or of an officer of the Post Office. If the addressee or his agent fail to attend in pursuance of the notification the article shall be opened by the Postmaster General and may be delivered to the addressee or confiscated or otherwise dealt with as may be required be law.”
7. The following three sections shall be inserted in sections 35 the Principal Ordinance after section 33 thereof;----
336 and 33e
to the
Principal Ordinance.
Prohibition
of sending by post explosive, inflammable, or deleterionS substances, or indecent prints. words, etc.
-33a.—(1.) A person shall not send or attempt to send a postal packet which either-
(a.) encloses any explosive, any dangerous substance, any filth, any noxious or deleterious substance, any sharp in- strument not properly protected, any living creature which is either no- xious or likely to injure other postal