POST OFFICE , [ 1 of 1887. ) 903
Using, offering, uttering, disposing of, or putting off any
forged, altered, or imitated postage stamp as aforesaid ,
knowing the same to be forged, altered, or imitated .
Every person who is convicted of any felony inentioned in
this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be
kept in penal servitude * for any term not exceeding seven years 1887.)
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and not less than three years , or to be imprisoned for any terin
not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
28. The following acts shall be deemed misdemeanours :- Opening cor
Opening or suffering or procuring to be opened , or detain- and other mis.
ing or delaying, or procuring or suffering to be detained demeanours.
or delayed any correspondence without lawful author
ity or excuse ; or wilfully delivering any correspond
ence to any person other than the person to whom
the same ought to be delivered .
Fraudulently obtaining from any person employed by or
under the Post Office, or fraudulently detaining or
wilfully secreting, keeping, or detaining any letter
bag, or any correspondence which ought to have been
delivered to any person .
Fraudulently removing any postage stamp from any corre
spondence, or wilfully removing from any postage
stamp any mark that has been made thereon at any
Post Office, or knowingly using or putting off any
postage stamp from which any such mark has been
removed, making, knowingly uttering, dealing in ,
selling, knowingly using for any postal purpose, or
having in possession without lawful excuse
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any
fictitious postage stamp, or [ No. 22 of
making , or having in possession without lawful excuse 1889.]
any die , plate, instrument or materials for making any
such fictitious postage stamp. Any such stamp , die,
plate , instrument, or materials found in the possession
of any person in contravention of this section may be
seized and shall be forfeited .
Every person who is convicted of any misdemeanour men
tioned in this section shall be liable, at the discretion of the
Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years
with or without hard labour.
29. The sections of the Larceny Ordinance (No. 7 of 1865) Receiving
stolen corre
relating to receiving stolen goods , that is to say, sections 75 to spondence.
82 both inclusive, shall apply to felonies and misdemeanours
committed under this ordinance ;; and for that purpose , the
expression this ordinance, when used in the said sections, shall
be taken to include the present ordinance .