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ORDINANCES No. 31 of 1886 and No. 1 of 1887.
Statute Law Preservation.
Post Office.
Registrar to preserve them.
Gazette and Government printers copies to be prima facie evidence.
Inspection and copies.
nals thereof and may be proved in any Court or judicial proceedings by the production of an examined copy thereof or of a copy certified under the hand of the said Registrar.
5. The said Registrar shall carefully preserve the said collection and shall file all such Ordinances, proclamations, rules, regulations and orders as may hereafter be transmitted to him.
6. Any such Ordinances, proclamations, rules, regulations or orders published in the Gazette and also any copies thereof purporting to be printed by the Government printers, by authority, shall be deemed and accepted as primâ facie evidence of the contents thereof.
7. Any person shall be entitled to inspect the said Ordinances within the office hours of the Supreme Court on payment of 25 cents for each inspection not exceeding three hours and to take copies or extracts therefrom on payment of 25 cents per folio of 72 words for each copy or extract.
Title.
Interpretation
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
No. 1 of 1887.
An Ordinance entitled The Post Office Ordinance, 1887.
[15th February, 1887.]
1. In this Ordinance, and in any Order in Council or regulation made thereunder, unless the context indicates the contrary, the following expressions shall have the meanings set against them respectively, that is to say:-
Consignees' Letters. Any letters, forwarded by any vessel on the same voyage as and relating to goods or merchandise on board of such vessel.
Contract Packet.-Any vessel for the conveyance of letter bags and correspondence under contract.