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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4ru DECEMBER, 1886.
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7. The Postmaster General shall receive all postago payable in the Colony and shall keep accounts of all cor- respondence received and despatched by him, with the particulars of the Postage thereof, in suelt muuner nud form as the Governor may from time to time direct. The accounts of monies payable to the Imperial Postmastor General shall be kept distinct from the accounts of monics payable to the Colonial Treasury.
The Postmaster General shall keep the accounts of monics payable to the Imperial Postmaster General in such form and shall transmit such monies in such manner as the said Imperial Postmaster General may from time to time
direct.
8. The Governor in Council may from time to fiae by order determine the rates of postage to be charged upon all correspondence sent by post from the General Post Office of the Colony, or received therein from places outside the Colony, and may revoke, alter, or add to any such order, provided that no such order be inconsistent with any in- structions transmitted from the Secretary of State for the Colonies or from the Imperial Postmaster General,
9. The Governor shall publish every such order by Proclamation in the Gazette; and every order, when so published, shall have the same effect as if it had been in- serted in this Ordimnce. All such Orders in Council in force at the time of passing of this Ordinance, are hereby continued in force until duly revoked or altered by the Governor in Council.
10. The Governor may, subject to such instructions as aforesaid, from time to time make, alter, and repeal, in re- lation to correspondence sent by post, such regulations as ho thinks fit for regulating times and modes of posting and delivery, prepayment, late fees, fines on unpaid correspond- ence, the registry of correspondence, money orders, the sale and aflixing of postage stamps, the dimensions, weights, and contents of packets, and other such similar regulations as the Governor from time to time thinks necessary for the better exccution of this Ordinance.
All such regulations as affect the public shall be approved by the Governor in Council and published in the Gazette, or in the Postal Guide published by the Postmaster General, and shall have no effect until so published.
11. Any question whether an article of correspondence is a letter, or whether any publication is a newspaper or a supplement, or whether any packet is a book packet or pattern or sample packet within the meaning of this Ordi- nance, or of any order in Council, or regulations made thereunder, shall be decided by the Postmaster General. The Governor may, if he thinks fit, on the application of any person interested, reverse or modify such decision, and order accordingly.
12. All correspondence which arrives in this Colony fully paid according to the rates in fores for the time being shall be delivered or transmitted from the Post Office with- out further charge,"
13. All letters received or sent by sailors or soldiers of Her Majesty's sea or land forces shall be charged with such reduction in the rates of postage as is allowed to them by any Act of the Imperial Parliament.
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14. The Governor may from time to time provide pro- per postage stamps and proper dies and other implements for denoting, by adhesivo stamps or otherwise, the matos of postage payable under this Ordinance, or any regulation thereunder.
15. The Postmaster General may if necessary open, and if possible return to the sender : --
(1) Any correspondence upon which the prepayment of postage is compulsory, and which cannot be sont unpaid by any other route, and which the proper postage has not been paid,
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(2) Any correspondence which is returned to the General Post Office for want of a proper address, or from inability to find the porson to whom it is addressed, and which romulus unelaimed for ten days after being advertised in the Guzetic.