ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1887.
Post Office.
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postage, and accounts.
7. The Postmaster General shall receive all postage payable in the Colony and shall keep accounts of all correspondence received and despatched by him, with the particulars of the postage thereof, in such manner and form as the Governor may from time to time direct. The accounts of monies payable to the Imperial Postmaster General shall be kept distinct from the accounts of monies payable to the Colonial Treasury. The Postmaster General shall keep the accounts of monies 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.
Governor in Council may fix rates of postage.
8. The Governor in Council may from time to time 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 instructions 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 inserted in this Ordinance. 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.
Orders to be published by proclamation.
10. The Governor may, subject to such instructions as aforesaid, from time to time make, alter, and repeal, in relation to correspondence sent by post, such regulations as he thinks fit for regulating times and modes of posting and delivery, prepayment, late fees, fines on unpaid correspondence, the registry of correspondence, money orders, the sale and affixing 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 execution of this Ordinance.
All such regulations as affect the public shall be 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 Ordinance, or of any order in Council or regulations made.
Decision as to newspapers, packets, &c.