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Paid correspondence to be delivered or transmitted without further charge.
Seamen's and soldiers' letters.
Dies, &c. for postage stamps.
Opening letters.
Unpaid letters.
Dead letters.
Postage may be remitted containing letters if sent in mistake.
ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1887.
Post Office.
thereunder, shall be decided by the Postmaster General. The Governor may, if he thinks fit, on the application of any person interested, reverse or modify such decision, and order accordingly.
12. All correspondence which arrives in this Colony fully paid according to the rates in force for the time being shall be delivered or transmitted from the Post Office without further charge.
13. All letters received or sent by sailors or soldiers of Her Majesty's sea or land forces shall be charged with such reduction in the rates of postage as is allowed to them by any Act of the Imperial Parliament.
14. The Governor may from time to time provide proper postage stamps and proper dies and other implements for denoting, by adhesive stamps or otherwise, the rates of postage payable under this Ordinance, or any regulation thereunder.
15. The Postmaster General may if necessary open, and if possible return to the sender:-
(1.) Any correspondence upon which the prepayment of postage is compulsory, and which cannot be sent unpaid by any other route, and upon which the proper postage has not been paid.
(2.) Any correspondence which is returned to the General Post Office for want of a proper address, or from inability to find the person to whom it is addressed, and which remains unclaimed for ten days after being advertised in the Gazette.
16. When any packet is delivered to the Post Office and has thereby on packets not become liable to postage, and evidence is adduced to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General that such packet has been delivered to the Post Office by mistake, the Postmaster General may cause such packet to be opened in the presence of an officer in the Post Office, and may return the same without charge to the person interested; unless such packet is found to contain any letter or manuscript liable to postage; in which case the Postmaster General shall retain the packet until he is paid the full rate of postage chargeable upon such letter or manuscript.
Warrants for opening or returning correspondence.
17. After any correspondence has been delivered to the Post Office, no person employed by or under the Post Office shall, except in the cases above mentioned, open the same or delay its transmission, or
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