ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1884.
Post Office.
The master of every such vessel shall give all proper facilities to such officer of the Post Office to enable him to discharge his duties and to make up such late mails, and to leave the vessel on her departure, and any master of a vessel failing to give any such facilities shall be liable, on conviction thereof, to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
If there be no officer of the Post Office in attendance on board any vessel, the master of such vessel may receive all correspondence which is brought on board to him, prepaid by stamps; and shall deliver the same at the Post Office on arrival at his destination.
Offences.
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masters of vessels,
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 exceeding five hundred dollars, that is to say:--
Refusal to take a letter bag delivered or tendered to him by an officer of the Post Office for conveyance.
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 correspondence 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 correspondence shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals from or out of any correspondence 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.
Stealing letter bags, forging stamps and other felonies.