ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1887.
Post Office.
2. There shall be one General Post Office of the Colony where correspondence may be received from all places, and whence correspondence may be despatched to all places, and the Post Office at the time of the passing of this Ordinance shall be such General Post Office until the site thereof is changed by the Governor.
The Governor may establish such district post offices in the Colony as he thinks fit.
Management.
3. The Postmaster General, and all other officers of the Post Office at the time of the passing of this Ordinance shall be continued in their offices, and shall have all the powers, and privileges hereby conferred upon the holders of their respective offices.
4. The Governor may from time to time appoint a Postmaster General of the Colony, and all necessary assistant postmasters general, postmasters, agents, clerks, or servants for conducting the business of the Post Office, and may remove any officers so appointed.
5. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his deputies, have the entire charge of the General Post Office and of all postal matters within the Colony, with sole power, within the Colony, of receiving from all persons authorized to deliver the same all letter bags and correspondence arriving in the Colony; and with sole power, within the Colony, of collecting, receiving, and delivering to all persons authorised to receive the same all correspondence for transmission by or through the General Post Office to places out of the Colony.
The said Postmaster General shall also have the exclusive privilege, within the Colony, of performing all the incidental services of receiving, collecting, despatching and delivering all correspondence arriving from, or transmitted to any place out of the Colony; and no letters, unless exempt by law, shall be delivered in, or transmitted from the Colony otherwise than by or through the General Post Office.
6. All correspondence which, by any Act of the Imperial Parliament, is excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Imperial Post Office, shall within this Colony be excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General of the Colony. Consignees' letters shall be excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General, but, if taken to the Post Office, such consignees' letters shall be subject to the same rates of postage and general regulations as apply to other correspondence.