POSTAL ORDINANCE.
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AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF A POST OFFICE FOR THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.
No. 8 of 1862.
[3rd May, 1862.]
Whereas it has become necessary to provide for the establishment Preamble. and regulation of a Post Office within the Colony of Hongkong:-Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
I. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to consti- General Post Office to tute one General Post Office in the City of Victoria and to appoint so be in Victoria. many Post Offices in the City and in other Districts of the said Colony shall seem proper, and the present Post Office shall be such General site thereof shall be changed by His Excellency.
II. A fit and proper Person shall be appointed to be Postmaster General in and for the said Colony.
as to His Excellency Post Office until the
Appointment of Post- master General.
Postmaster General
solely authorized to re-
ceive and deliver all Correspondence.
III. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his Deputy or Deputies, have the entire Charge of the General Post Office and of all the Postal Duties within the said Colony, and he shall have sole
power, within this Colony, of receiving from Her Majesty's Naval and Post Office Agents and from all Ship Masters and other Persons authorized to deliver the same, all Correspondence arriving in the Colony, by, from, or through Her Majesty's Ge- neral Post Office, or any Colonial or Foreign Post Office, or arriving in any Ship or Vessel carrying by Contract Her Majesty's Mails; and the said Postmaster General shall, by him- self or his Deputy or Deputies, have the sole and exclusive Power, within this Colony, of collecting, receiving, and delivering to all Persons within this Colony and also to Her Majes- ty's Naval and Post Office Agents, and to all Ship Masters and to all other Persons authoriz- ed to receive the same, all Correspondence for transmission from this Colony by or through Her Majesty's said General Post Office to Parts out of this Colony; and the said Postmaster General shall also have the exclusive Privilege within this Colony of performing all the in- cidental Services of receiving, collecting, despatching and delivering all Letters arriving within this Colony from any Port out of this Colony or transmitted from this Colony to any Part out of this Colony; and no Correspondence shall be delivered or transmitted from this Colony, otherwise than by or through the said General Post Office: Prov- ided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to render arriving by ship. necessary the delivery to the Postmaster General by a Captain of a Ship or Vessel other than those carrying Her Majesty's Mails, of any Letters, or Papers which shall arrive addressed to Persons in this Colony which, before the passing of this Ordinance, were not required by the Law then in force, to be so delivered: Provided also that nothing in Proviso as to Impe- this Ordinance contained shall, in any way be construed to effect or rial Acts of Parlia- interfere with the exclusive Rights and Privileges of Her Majesty's Postmaster General or with the Provisions of the Imperial Acts of Parliament relating to the Imperial Post Office: Provided also that such exclusive Privilege as aforesaid shall not apply to the transmission of Correspondence to and from Places on the Canton River or to and from Macao.
Proviso as to Letters
ment.
Letters excepted un- der Acts of Imperial
Parliament.
IV. All Correspondence which in and by the Statutes of the Imperial Parliament, is excepted from and out of the exclusive Privilege of the Imperial Post Office, shall within this Colony be and the same are hereby declared to be excepted from and out of the exclusive Privilege of the Postmaster General.
No Person to act under
V. Fit and proper Persons shall be appointed to be Postmasters or Deputy Postmasters, Clerks, Agents, or Servants in the managing, Postmaster General un- receiving, sorting, marking, or delivering of Correspondence, and every
til after declaration.
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