THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26тп APRIL, 1884.
Offences.
26. Every master of a vessel which is not a contract packet, who commits any of the following offences, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty not excceding five hundred dollars, that is to say :-
Refusal to take a letter bag delivered or tendered to him
by an officer of the Post Oilice for couveyance. Refusal to sign a receipt for a letter bag delivered to him
by an officer of the Post Office for conveyance. Neglect without reasonable excuse to deliver all corres- pondence to the Post Office on his arrival in the Colony.
Refusal or wilful neglect to make, or making any untrue statement in the declaration hereby required of his having delivered his letters to the Post Office. Refusal or wilful neglect, if in quarantine, to deliver all correspondence in his possession to the person appointed to receive it.
27. Every person employed by or under the Post Office who steals, embezzles, secretes, or destroys any correspond- ence shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals from or out of any correspond- ence any chattel, money or valuable security, shall be guilty of felony..
Every person who steals or unlawfully takes away a letter bag, or steals or unlawfully takes any correspondence from or out of a letter bag, or unlawfully opens a letter bag, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals any correspondence from a letter bag, or from a Post Office, or from an officer of the Post Office shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who forges, alters, or imitates, or assists in. forging, altering, or imitating, any postage stamp issued under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who uses, offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any forged, altered, or imitated postage stamp as aforesaid, knowing the same to be forged, altered, or imitated, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who is convicted of any felony mentioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour. 28. Every person employed by or under the Post Office, who, without lawful authority or excuse, opens, or suffers or procures to be opened any correspondence; or who, without lawful authority or excuse, detains or delays, or procures or suffers to be detained or delayed any corres- pondence; or who wilfully delivers any correspondence to any person other than the person to whom the same ought to be delivered, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who fraudulently obtains from any person employed by or under the Post Office, or fraudulently de- tains, or wilfully secretes, keeps, or detains, any letter bag, or any correspondence which ought to have been delivered to any other person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who frandulently removes any postage stamp from any correspondence, or wilfully removes from any postage stamp any mark that has been made thereon at any Post Office, or knowingly uses or puts off any postage stamp from which any such mark has been removed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanor men- tioned 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 Lareeny 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 inisdemeanors 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 Ordinance, in respect of any letter bag or correspondence, it shall be sufficient to allege 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 Offtec, it shull be sufficient to album that such person was employed by or under the Post Oflice, without stating further the mature or particulars of his employment.
Penalties on Blasters of Vessels.
Stealing letter bags, forging stamps, and other felonies.
Opening cor- respondence and other mi- demeanors.
Receiving atol-n corres- pondence.
Allegations to
be used 11 proces ding for offences.
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