ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1862 . 519
Post Office.
of the revenue of the said Post Office in manner provided for payment of revenue and
fees by public officers . The amount payable in respect of such accounts to the Colonial How monies
collected for
Treasury, shall be paid by the Postmaster General into the Treasury, and the amount Colonial Trea
sury to be paid.
payable in respect of such accounts to Her Majesty's Postmaster General, in respect of
postage, shall be payable and paid in such manner as Her Majesty's Postmaster General
shall from time to time appoint.
8. The Postmaster General, his deputies and servants, and the Post Office General Post
Office regula
establishment of this Colony shall be guided by and subject to such rules and regula tions.
tions as shall be made in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor, and a copy of all
such rules and regulations shall be furnished to the Postmaster General, and such of
the same as relate to the public shall be at all times exhibited openly at the General
Post Office for the information of the public ; Provided that no such rules or regula
tions as shall relate to the public shall be in force until the same shall have been published
in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
9. No correspondence coming from, or through or sent to the United Kingdom, Correspondence
by contract
or carried elsewhere, or brought here by any contract packet, shall be liable to any packet to bear
Imperial postage
other rate of postage, than that charged by the Imperial Government, and the Post only.
master General shall collect and receive as well all postage payable in this Colony , to
Her Majesty, for the Imperial Postmaster General as for the Colonial Treasury.
10. The postage on all correspondence, posted in this Colony for transmission to Postage prepay
able in money
any place out of the same, shall be paid by the sender on delivering the same at the until stamps pro
vided.
Post Office in money until stamps shall be provided under the provisions of this Or
dinance. Provided always that correspondence enclosed in stamped covers, or having Stamps may be
used when pro
a stamp affixed thereto (the stamp in every such case being of the value or amount in vided.
this Ordinance expressed , and specially provided for the purpose under the authority of
this Ordinance) shall, if within the limitation of weight fixed by or under the authority
of any Statute of the Imperial Parliament in that behalf and if the stamps have not
been used before, pass by the post free, except as to such postage as the same shall or
may be liable to on arrival at their places of destination , when other than the United
Kingdom, under the laws of such places respectively.
11. On every letter arriving in this Colony by private ship or in a ship letter mail Ship letters.
from any place beyond the limits of this Colony, and on every letter posted in this
Colony for transmission to any place beyond the limits of the same, there shall be
charged and paid to the Postmaster General for the use of this Colony, postage by
weight according to the following scale, that is to say:--
Not exceeding half an ounce one rate of four pence.
Exceeding half an ounce, but not exceeding one ounce, two rates, or eight
pence.
Exceeding one ounce, but not exceeding two ounces , four rates or one shilling
and four pence .
Exceeding two ounces, but not exceeding three ounces, six rates or two
shillings.