CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4] — Page 65

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Enclosure 2.

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RES?

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, ca 30 APR 001

March 20th..

1900.

Report on Ordinance

No.5

of 1900.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

An Ordinance to further amend the Post

Office Ordinance, 1887.

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the

Governor's Instructions.

Object/and Reasons.

Section 2 of this Ordinance will enable the

Post Master General to recover double postage or

double the deficiency of postage in the cases mentioned

therein. At present the postmen, being chiefly Chinese

of the coolie class, are apt to deliver insufficiently

stamped letters expecting the recipient to pay double

the deficient postage demanded, but, in some instances

the recipients, having opened the letters, have handed

them

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