ORDINANCES Nos. 8. AND 9. OF 1862..
Port Office.
Police Force.
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Knigdon, the Punjant on Sting Kong.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's rust obedient
Strumbler Dewant,
Murch
Admustering the Government.
I
SCHEDULE A.
do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will ot wittingly or willingly open or delay or cause or suffer to be opened or delayed contrary to my Duty any Letter or any Thing sent by the Post, which shall come into my Hands or Custody by reason of my Employment relating to the Post Office, except by the Consent of the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be directed or by an express Warrant in Writing under the Hand of the Governor for that Purpose, or excepting such Cases where the Party or Parties to whom such Lter or any Thing sent by the Post shall be directed, and who is of are chargeable with the Payment of the Postage thereof shall refuse or neglect to pay the sume, and except such Letters or hy Thing sent by the "Post as shall be returned to the Post Office of this Colony for Want of true Directions or when the Party or Parties to whom the same shall be directed, cannot be found, and that I will not in any way embezzle any such Letter or any Thing sent by the Post as afore- said or any Money which shall come to my Hands by virtue of my said Employment or for Postage or otherwise and I make this solemn Declaration by virtue of the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the 5th and 6th years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the 4th intituled "An Act to repeal an Age of the present Session of Parliament intituled, an Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in "yfious Departments of the State to substitute Declarations in "fieu thereof and for the more entira suppression of voluntary and extra-Judicial Oaths and Affidavits and make other Provi- "sious for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths."
I
Declared before me this
SCHEDULE B. Commander of the
day of
arrived from
do, as required by Law, solemnly declare, that I have, to the best of my knowledge and belief, delivered or caused to be delivered, at the Post Office a
every Letter, Bag, Package, or
Parcel of Letters that were on board the said such Letters as are exempted by Law.
Dated the Witness
Signed by
.except
Commander.
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Postmaster General of
No. 9. OF 1862.
An Ordinance for the Establishment and Regulation of the Title.
Police Force of the Colony of Hongkong,
[3rd May, 1862.]
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WHEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made Freamble.
for establishing and regulating the Police Force for the Colony of Hongkong: Be it enacted by Ilis Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows -
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