Portal Songs Reg.-
G.N.
616
B
Receipt of postage and keeping of accounts of correspondence.
254 44 Fixing of rates of postage.
·391/8 in 4.0.11-5.06 $760.
No. 6.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1900. signees' letters shall be subject to the same rates of postage and general regulations as apply to other correspondence.
8.-(1.) 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.
(2.) The accounts of moneys payable to the Imperial Postmaster General shall be kept distinct from the accounts of moneys payable to the Colonial Treasury,
(3.) The Postmaster General shall keep the accounts of moneys payable to the Imperial Postmaster General in such form, and shall transmit such moneys in such manner, as the Imperial Postmaster General may from time to time direct.
9. (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 Rate of postage on parcels to India such Order: Provided that no such Order shall be inconsistent with any instructions transmitted from the Secretary of State for the Colonies or from the Imperial Postmaster General.
Jom 273 69 29.8.10 fag. pr. 389,
Order-in-Council to be published by proclamation.
Making of regulations.
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10-(1.) The Governor shall publish every such Order-in-Council by proclamation in The Gazette; and every such Order, when so published, shall have the same effect as if it had been inserted in this Ordinance.
(2.) All such Orders-in-Council in force at the commencement of this Ordinance are hereby continued in force until duly revoked or altered by the Governor-in-Council.
11.—(1.) 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.
(2.) 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.
12.-(1.) The Governor may, subject to such instructions as aforesaid, from time to time make, alter, and repeal, in relation to correspondence