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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26т¤ APRIL, 1884.
General Post Office.
Postmaster General and officers cou- tinued in their
ffices.
Appointment of officers in future.
Declarations.
Postmaster General solely authorised to receive and de- liver all cor- respondence.
Letters ex-
cepted under Acts of Impe- rial Parlia ment.
Receipt of
postage, and accounts.
Governor in Council masy fix rates of postage.
Orders to be published by Proclamation.
2. There shall be one General Post Office of the Colony where correspondence may be received from all places, and whence correspondence may be despatched to all places, and the Post Office at the time of the passing of this Ordi- nance shall be such General Post Office until the site thereof is changed by the Governor.
The Governor may establish such District Post Offices in the Colony as he thinks fit.
Management.
3. The Postmaster General, and all other officers of the Post Office at the time of the passing of this Ordinance shall be continued in their offices, and shall have all the powers and privileges hereby conferred upon the holders of their respective offices.
4. The Governor may from time to time appoint a Post- master General of the Colony, and all necessary Assistant Postmasters General, Postmasters, agents, clerks, or servants for conducting the business of the Post Office, and may remove any officers so appointed.
5. No person appointed after the passing of this Ordi- nance shall be capable of holding the office of Postmaster General, or Assistant Postmaster General, or Postmaster, or Agent, unless he shall have first made and subscribed before a Justice of the Peace, or one of Her Britannic Ma- jesty's Consuls, the declaration contained in the schedule A hereto annexed, and no person appointed after the passing of this Ordinance shall be capable of being a clerk, servant, or officer of the Post Office, unless he shall have first made and subscribed in like manner the declaration contained in the schedule B hereto annexed.
6. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his de- puties, have the entire charge of the General Post Office and of all postal matters within the Colony, with sole power, within the Colony, of receiving from all persons authorised to deliver the same all letter bags and corres- pondence arriving in the Colony; and with sole power, within the Colony, of collecting, receiving, and delivering to all persons authorised to receive the same all correspond- ence for transmission by or through the General Post Office to places out of the Colony.
The said Postmaster General shall also have the exclusive privilege, within the Colony, of performing all the incidental services of receiving, collecting, despatching and delivering all correspondence arriving from, or transmitted to any place out of the Colony; and no letters, unless exempt by. law, shall be delivered in, or transmitted from the Colony otherwise than by or through the General Post Office.
7. All correspondence which, by any Act of the Imperial Parliament, is excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Imperial Post Office, shall within this Colony be excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General of the Colony.
8. The Postmaster General shall receive all postage payable in the Colony and shall keep accounts of all cor- respondence received and despatched by him, with the particulars of the Postage thereof, in such manner and form as the Governor may, from time to time, direct; Provided that the accounts of monies payable to the Imperial Postmaster General be kept distinct from the accounts of monies payable to the Colonial Treasury.
The Postmaster General shall keep the accounts of monies payable to the Imperial Postmaster General in such form and shall transmit such monies in such manner as the said Imperial Postmaster General may, from time to time, direct.
9. The Governor in Council may, from to time by order determine the rates of postage to be charged upon all cor respondence sent by post from the General Post Office of the Colony, or received therein from places outside the Colony, and may revoke, alter, or add to any such order, provided that no such order be inconsistent with any Postal Treaty applicable to this Colony.
10. The Governor shall publish every such order by Proclamation in the Gazette; and every order, when so published, shall have the same effect as if it had been inserted in this Ordinance. All such Orders in Council in force at the time of passing of this Ordinance are hereby continued in force until duly revoked or altered by the Governor in Council.
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