ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1876 . 1439
Post Office.
26. The Postmaster General, or any officer of the Post Office authorised by him, Making up mails
on board.
may attend on board any vessel, after the time for closing the mail by such vessel , [Ibid, sec. 17,3
and may receive all fully prepaid correspondence which is brought on board up to the
time of departure to be transmitted by such vessel .
The master of every such vessel shall give all proper facilities to such officer of
the Post Office to enable him to discharge his duties and to make up such late mails,
and to leave the vessel on her departure, and any master of a vessel failing to give
any such facilities shall be liable, on conviction thereof, to a penalty not exceeding five
hundred dollars.
If there be no officer of the Post Office in attendance on board any vessel, the
master of such vessel may receive all correspondence which is brought on board to him
.
prepaid by stamps ; and shall deliver the same at the Post Office on arrival at his
destination.
Offences.
27. Every master of a vessel, which is not a contract packet, who commits any Penalties on
masters of
of the following offences, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty not exceed vessels.
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ing five hundred dollars, that is to say :
Refusal to take a letter bag delivered or tendered to him by an officer of the
Post Office for conveyance.
Refusal to sign a receipt for a letter bag delivered to him by an officer of the
Post Office for conveyance.
Neglect without reasonable excuse to deliver all correspondence to the Post [Ibid, sec. 14.)
Office on his arrival in the Colony.
Refusal or wilful neglect to make or making any untrue statement in, the [Ibid.
declaration hereby required of his having delivered his letters to the
Post Office.
Refusal or wilful neglect, if in quarantine, to deliver all correspondence in [Ibid.]
his possession to the person appointed to receive it.
28. Every person, employed by or under the Post Office, who steals, embezzles, Stealing letter
bags, forging
secretes, or destroys any correspondence shall be guilty of felony. stamps, and
other felonies.
Every person who steals from or out of any correspondence, any chattel , money ,
or valuable security, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals or unlawfully takes away a letter bag, or steals or unlaw
fully takes any correspondence from or out of a letter bag, or unlawfully opens a letter
bag, shall be guilty of felony .
Every person who steals any correspondence from a letter bag, or from a Post
Office, or from an officer of the Post Office shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who forges, alters, or imitates, or assists in forging, altering, or
imitating, any postage stamp issued under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of felony .
Every person who uses, offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any forged, altered,
or imitated postage stamp as aforesaid, knowing the same to be forged, altered, or
imitated, shall be guilty of felony .