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ORDINANCES Nos. 2 AND 3 OF 1863.
Post Office.
...Vesting of Admiralty Estates.
Title.
Sec. 18 of No. 8 of 1862 repealed.
Registration of letters.
"This section to be construed as if it had been sec. 18 of No. 8 of 1862.
No. 2 of 1863.
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1862, intituled "An Ordinance to provide for the management and control of a Post Office for the Colony of Hongkong."
[6th February, 1863.]
BE it enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. Section 18 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1862, is hereby repealed.
2. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to register in this Colony correspondence posted for transmission to any place out of the limits of this Colony in like manner and form as the same were registered by the Postmaster before the third day of May, 1862, and to demand and receive in respect of every letter or book packet registered in this Colony the sum of six pence, one-half thereof to be by him retained and accounted for to and for the use of this Colony, and the other half thereof to be by him retained and accounted for and paid over to the Imperial Postmaster General and all registered correspondence and the registration thereof shall be subject to all such and the same rules and regulations as were in force respecting the same on the said third day of May, 1862, or as shall from time to time be hereafter enacted or provided in respect thereof by any Statute of the Imperial Parliament or by Her Majesty's Postmaster General or by His Excellency the Governor. This section shall be read and construed as if the same had originally been section eighteen of the said last mentioned Ordinance.
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[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
Title.
Preamble.
No. 3 of 1863.
An Ordinance for Vesting all Estates and Property occupied by or for the Naval Service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this Colony in the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, of the said United Kingdom for the time being.
WHERE
[26th May, 1863.]
WHEREAS divers messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments have been at various times purchased for the use of the Naval Service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and conveyed to several different persons in trust for Her Majesty and Her