ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1862 . 523
Post Office.
penalties imposed by such Statutes respectively or by this Ordinance shall, unless
otherwise directed, be recoverable before a Police Magistrate in the manner provided
by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
24. In case in any respect the due management of the affairs of the Post Office In cases not
provided for,
Governor to
Department of this Colony shall not be found to have been adequately provided for by make order.
this Ordinance, or in case of any convention or arrangement being entered into with the
authorities of any British Colony or Foreign State or Colony for the better transmission
of correspondence, which shall render any alteration in the management of or the
charges for correspondence necessary : it shall be lawful for His Excellency the
Governor to make such order as shall be necessary for such purpose, and such order
shall be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
25. Wherever the word correspondence occurs in this Ordinance it shall mean Interpretation
clause .
and include letters, newspapers, books, pamphlets and other parcels and papers and
documents being in or passing through the Post Office of this Colony.
SCHEDULE A.
[ do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will not 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 letter or any thing sent by the post shall
be directed, and who is or are chargeable with the payment of the postage thereof shall refuse or neglect
to pay the same, and except such letters or any 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 aforesaid or any money which shall come to my hands by virtue of my said employment
as 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 Act of the present Session of Parliament intituled, an Act for the more
effectual abolition of Oaths and affirmations taken and made in various Deparments of the State to
substitute Declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extia
Judicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths.”
Declared before me this day of
SCHEDULE B.
I Commander of the
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 at
every letter, bag, package, or parcel of letters that were on board the said except
such letters as are exempted by law.
Signed by Commander.
Dated the 186 ·
Witness Postmaster General of
[ All repealed by Ordinance No. 10 of 1876. ]