CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3] — Page 228

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a Pork office

Office for

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Several. the Attorney Semend and ark to receive in due course the tormal Approval and confirmation ofster most beacions Majesty. -

I have the houn to be,

My Lord Juke,

your braces,

& Most Obedient Servante,

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Sie & Roger.

To the Post Office repenting informed whether y Pal Martin

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Grounds and Reasons for an Ordinance Wor

of 1863 being An Ordinance to ament Ordinance Wr. 8 of 1862 intituled an Ordinance to provide for the and Control of a Post Office for the Colony of Honghong.

· management

This Ordinance as passed simply

provides for the fee to be necised on -the Registration of Letters by post at -sixpence and for the equal division thereof

between the Imperial and

Colonial

Offices being the alterations directed in the late Dispatch from the Colonial Office -

The Postmaster General for this

Colony stated that it is the habit

with some

firms

in Houngbong