A.D. 1900.]
POST OFFICE.
Deficient Postage.
[No. 7.
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Liability for insufficient unpaid or postage.
40.-(1.) In any case where either no postage or insufficient postage on correspondence has been paid by the sender, double such postage or double the deficiency in such postage shall be paid by the person to whom the correspondence is addressed on the delivery thereof to him; but if the correspondence is refused, or the person to whom it is addressed is dead or cannot be found, the writer or sender shall pay double such postage or double the deficiency of postage.
(2.) Any sum of money payable under the provisions of this section may be recovered at the suit of the Postmaster General.
[Ord, 22/11 §9]
ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1900.
AN ORDINANCE to provide more effectual Means to ensure the Observance, by those in Charge of certain Steam Launches, of reasonable Precautions against Piracy and Robbery.
[20th October, 1900.]
WHEREAS it is manifest that the commission of acts of piracy and robbery upon certain steam launches has, in certain cases, been facilitated by the apathy and carelessness of those in charge of such launches and by their omission to take reasonable precautions against such acts; and whereas there is reason to suspect that, in some instances, members of the crew of such launches have been in collusion with the robbers or have connived at their unlawful acts; and whereas it is expedient to provide a remedy for this evil:
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
— No.25 of 1900.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Steam Launch (Protection against Piracy) Ordinance, 1900.
2. In this Ordinance "Steam Launch" means a steamship of less than sixty tons burden licensed to ply for hire within the waters of this Colony or to any place outside such waters.
3. The licensee of every steam launch shall, on being required in writing to do so by the Captain Superintendent of Police, enter into a bond, together with one or more sureties resident in the Colony and to be approved by such Captain Superintendent, conditioned in the sum of one
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Licensee of launch may be required to enter into bond.