THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4т DECEMBER, 1886. 1137
28. The following acts shall be deemed misdemen-
nours :-
Oponing or suffering or procuring to bo opened, or de- taining or delaying, or procuring or suffering to bo detained or dolayed any correspondence with- out inwful authority or excuse; or wilfully deli- vering any correspondence to any person othor than the person to whom the same ought to be delivered.
Fraudulently obtaining from any person employed by or under the Post Office, or fraudulently detaining or wilfully secroting, keeping, or detaining any letter bag, or any correspondenco which ought to have been delivered to any person.
Fraudulently removing any postage stamp from any
correspondence, or wilfully removing from a postage stamp any mark that has been made thereon at any Post Office, or knowingly using or putting off any postage stamp from which any such mark has been removed, making, knowingly uttoring, dealing in, solling, knowingly using for any postal purpose, or having in possession with- out lawful excuse any fictitious postage stamp, not being a postage stamp issued under this Ordi- nance, or making, or having in possession without lawful excuse any die, plate, instrument or mate- rials for making any such fictitious postage stamp. Any such stamp, die, plate, instrument, or mate- rials found in the possession of: auy person in con- travention of this section may be seized and shall be forfeited.
Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanour mentioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
29. The sections of the Larceny Ordinance (No. 7 of 1865) relating to receiving stolen goods, that is to say, sections 75 to 82 both inclusive, shall apply to felonies and misdemeanours committed under this Ordinance; and for that purpose, the expression this Ordinance, when used in the said sections, shall be taken to include the present Ordinance.
30. In any proceedings against any person for any offence committed against this Ordinanco, in respect of any letter bag or correspondence, it shall be sufficient to alloge such letter bag or correspondence to be the property of the Postmaster General without mentioning his name, and in any such proceedings against any person employed by or under the Post Office, it shall be sufficient to allogo that such person was employed by or under the Post Office, without stating further the nature or particulars of his cm- ploymont.
31. All pecuniary penaltics for offences against this Ordinance be recovered in a summary way before a
may Magistrate, but proceedings for the recovery of such penal- ties shall be commenced within one year after the offence was committed.
32. Ordinances No. 12 of 1884 and No. 11 of 1885 aro hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done or commenced to be done thereunder.
33. This Ordinance shall take effect on a day to be pro- claimed by the Governor.
Opening cor- respondenes and other mis- deinesadurs,
Receiving stolen correa-· pondence.
Allogations to be used in proesedloge for offences.
Penalties may be recovered in & Aummary way withia one year.
Nopsal.
Suspending
clauso.