ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1876 . 1435
Post Office.
" Persons employed by or under the Post Office " shall mean every person employed
in any business of the Post Office according to the interpretation given to officer of the
Post Office.
"Contract Packet " shall mean any vessel for the conveyance of letter bags and
correspondence under contract.
"Master of a Vessel " shall mean any person in charge of a vessel, whether com
mander, mate, or other person .
"Vessel " shall mean any ship or other vessel not being a contract packet .
3. There shall, as heretofore, be one General Post Office of the Colony, where General Post
Office.
correspondence may be received from all places, and whence correspondence may be [Ibid, sec. 1.]
despatched to all places, and the present Post Office shall be such General Post Office
until the site thereof be changed by the Governor .
The Governor may establish such other District Post Offices in the Colony as he
thinks fit.
Management.
4. The present Postmaster General and all other officers of the Post Office are Postmaster
General and
officerscontinued
hereby continued in their offices, and shall have all the powers and privileges hereby in their offices.
conferred upon the holders of their respective offices.
5. The Governor may hereafter, as occasion requires , appoint, from time to time, Appointment of
officers in future.
a Postmaster General of the Colony , and all necessary Assistant Postmasters General , [Ibid, sec. 2 & 5,]
Postmasters, agents , clerks, or servants for conducting the business of the Post Office.
6. No person hereafter appointed shall be capable of holding the office of Post Declarations.
Ibid, sec. 5.1
master General, or Assistant Postmaster General , or Postmaster, or agent, unless he
shall have first made and subscribed before a Justice of the Peace or one of Her
Britanic Majesty's Consuls , the declaration contained in the schedule A hereto annexed ,
and no person hereafter appointed shall be capable of being a clerk, servant, or officer
of the Post Office, unless he shall have first made and subscribed in like manner, the
declaration contained in the schedule B hereto annexed.
7. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his deputies, have the entire Postmaster
General solely
charge of the General Post Office and of all postal matters within the Colony , with sole authorised to
receive and
deliver all cor
power, within the Colony , of receiving from all persons authorised to deliver the same, respondence .
[Ibid, sec. 3,]
all letter bags and correspondence arriving in the Colony ; and with sole power, within
the Colony, of collecting, receiving, and delivering to all persons authorised to receive
the same, all correspondence for transmission by or through the General Post Office to
places out of the Colony.
The said Postmaster General shall also have the exclusive privilege, within the
Colony, of performing all the incidental services of receiving, collecting, despatching
and delivering all correspondence arriving from, or transmitted to any place out of the
Colony ; and no letters (except Chinese letters) , unless exempt by law, shall be delivered
in,
Offor
ice.transmitted from the Colony, otherwise than by or through the General Post