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them back and declined to pay, and I understand difficulty has arisen in trying to enforce such payment.

Section 3 replaces Section 19 of Ordinance Noi

of 1887 which it repeals. Subsections (4) and (5) of Section 3, are new and correspond with subsections (5) and (6) of section 25 of the Straits Settlements Post Office Ordinance No.100f

1879, as amended by 1V of 1891.

A short time ago, a Master came and asked for gratiuties

for 2 years past. Subsection(5) meets such a case.

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Section 4 is based upon 54 and 55 Viet

ch, and 48, Sect. 10, and a recent case has shown the necessity

for the enactment of this law, for Section 28 deals with "correspondence" only, and by the definition of 1837, "correspondence" (Sact,l Ordinance No.1 of 1887) letters cease to be correspondence after delivery from the Post Office.

(Sd.)W.Meigh Goodman,

Attorney General.