THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH DECEMBER, 1876. 555
"Post Office" shall mean any house, building, room, or place where correspondence is received or delivered, or in which it is sorted, made up, or despatched.
"Officer of the Post Office" shall mean the Postmaster General, and every Postmaster, Assistant Postmaster, Agent, Officer, Clerk, Letter Carrier, or any other person employed in any business of the Post Office, whether employed by the Postmaster General, or by any person under him, or on behalf of the Post Office.
"Persons employed by or under the Post Office" shall mean every person employed in any business of the Post Office according to the interpretation given to Officer of the Post Office.
"Contract Packet shall mean any vessel for the conveyance of letter bags and correspondence under contract.
"Master of a Vessel" shall many person in charge of a
vessel, whether commander, mate, or other person.
"Vessel " shall mean any ship or other vessel not being a contract
packet.
III. There shall, as heretofore, be one General Post Office of the General Post Colony, where correspondence may be received from all places, and Office.
whence correspondence may be despatched to all places, and the [Ibid, sec. 1.] present Post Office shall be such General Post Office until the site
thereof be changed by the Governor.
The Governor may establish such other District Post Offices in the Colony as he thinks fit.
Management.
IV. The present Postmaster General and all other officers of Postmaster the Post Office are hereby continued in their offices, and shall have General and all the powers and privileges hereby conferred upon the holders of officers con- their respective offices.
tinued in their offices.
V. The Governor may hereafter, as occasion requires, ap- Appointment point, from time to time, a Postmaster General of the Colony, and of officers in all necessary Assistant Postmasters General, Postmasters, agents, [Ibid, secs. 2 clerks, or servants for conducting the business of the Post Office. & 5.]'
future.
VI. No person uereafter appointed shall be capable of hold- Declarations. ing the office of Postmaster General, or Assistant Postmaster Ge-Ibid, sec, 5.] neral, or Postmaster, or Agent, unless he shall have first made and subscribed before a Justice of the Peace, or one of Her Brit- tanic Majesty's Consuls, the declaration contained in the schedule A hereto annexed, and no person hereafter appointed 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.
authorised to
VII. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his depu- Postmaster ties, have the entire charge of the General Post Office and of all General solely postal matters within the Colony, with sole power, within the receive and de- Colony, of receiving from all persons authorised to deliver the same, liver all cor. all letter bags and correspondence arriving in the Colony; and respondence. with sole power, within the Colony, of collecting, receiving, and [Ibid, sec. 3.] delivering to all persons authorised to receive the same, all corres- pondence for transmission by or through the General Post Office to places out of the Colony."
The said Postmaster General shall also have the exclusive pri- vilege, within the Colony, of performing all the incidental services of receiving, collecting, despatching and delivering all correspond- ence arriving from, or transmitted to any place out of the Colony; and no letters (except Chinese letters), unless exempt by law, shall be delivered in, or transmitted from the Colony, otherwise than by or through the General Post Office.
VIII. All correspondence which, by any Act of the Imperial Letters ex- Parliament, is excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Impe- cepted under rial Post Office, shall within this Colony be, and the same is here- Acts of Impe
rial-Parlia by declared to be, excepted from the exclusive privilege of the ment. Postmaster General of the Colony.
[Ibid, sec. 4, & See 1 Vic. c. 33, sec. 2.]
accounts.
IX. The Postmaster General shall receive all postage pay- Receipt of able in the Colony and shall keep accounts of all correspondence postage and received and despatched by him, with the particulars of the Postage [See Ord. 8 of thereof, in such manner and form as the Governor may, from time 1862, sec. 7.] to time, direct; but so 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 pay- able to the Imperial Postmaster General in such form and shall transmit such monies in such manner, as the said Imperial Post- master General may, from time to time, direct.
X. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, by Governor in order under his hand determine the rates of postage to be charged
Council may fix rates of upon all correspondence sent by post from the General Post Office postage. of the Colony, or received therein from places outside the Colony, [Ibid, secs. 24 and the scale of weights according to which such rates are to be & 18, and 34 & charged, and may revoke, alter, or add to any such order, so how-35 Vic. c. 30 ever, that no order be inconsistent with any instructions on the sec. 1.] subject transmitted from the Secretary of State or the Imperial Postmaster General.
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