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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 186. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 20th July, 1911 :-
A BILL
ENTITLED
Short title and con- struction.
Rep. Is sub. section (2) of section 6 of the Principal Onlinance
and new sub-section substituted therefor.
Repeals see-
us 26 and
27 of the Principai Ordinance and new section substituted therefor.
Gratuities to ship masters.
An Ordinance to amend the Post Office Ordin- ance, 1900, and the Laws relating to the Post Office.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the Post Office :
BE it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "the Post Office Amendment Ordinance, 1911 “, and shall be read and construed with the Post Office Ordinance, 1900, here- inafter referred to as the Principal Ordinance “.
2. Sub-section 2 of section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following sub- section substituted therefor :--
(2.) The Postmaster General shall also have the exclusive privilege within the Colony of performing all the incidental services of receiving from all persons who arrive in the Colony with letters, of collecting, des- patching and delivering all correspondence arriving from or intended to be despatched to any place out of the Colony ; and no letters from out of the Colony, unless exempt by law, shall be conveyed in the Colony otherwise than by the post or shall be delivered in or transmitted from the Colony otherwise than by or through the General Post Office."
3. Sections 26 and 27 of the Principal Ordinanco are hereby ropealed and the following section substituted therefor :-
→26. The Postmaster General shall pay to every master of a vessel, not being a contract packet, a gratuity of one cent for every letter and other article, other than a pareci. 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 and provided also that the appli- cation for payment of such gratuity must be made by the master within six months after the delivery of such correspondence on board. The Postmaster General may before paying such gratuity require a 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,"
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