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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH APRIL, 1862.
Proviso as to Letters arriving by ship.
ral 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 incidental Ser- vices of receiving, collecting, despatching and delivering all Letters arriving within this Colony from any Part out of this Government or transmitted from this Colony to any Part out of this Colony; and no Letter, Newspaper, Books, Pamphlet or Paper shall be delivered or transmitted from this Colony, save in a Parcel otherwise than by or through this Colonial Post Office: Provided always that nothing hercin contained shall be con- strued to render 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 Proviso as to Impe- Act, was not required by the Law then in force, to be so delivered: Provided also that rial Acts of Parlia- nothing in this Act contained shall, in any way be construed to affect or 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.
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Letters excepted
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IV. All Letters, Papers, and Documents which in and by the Statutes of the unlop Acts of Impe- Imperial Parliament, are excepted from and out of the exclusive Privilege of the Impe- rial 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
til qualified, &c.
V. His Excellency the Governor shall appoint fit and proper Persons to be Post- under Postmaster un- masters or Deputy Postmasters, Clerks, Agents, or Servants in the managing, receiving, sorting, marking, or delivering of Letters and Papers, and every Postinaster General and such Person so appointed shall, before he shall enter upon the Duties of his Office, take and subscribe the Declaration contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, before a Police Magistrate for this Colony, who shall administer such Oath accordingly. Postmaster to have VI. The Postmaster General to be appointed under the Provisions of this Act Postmaster General, shall, within the limits of this Colony, and subject also to the Provisions of this Act, acting when Act pas- and to the Rules to be established under the Authority of the same, and so long as he shall be in the execution of his Office, have and exercise and be invested with and en- But subject to the joy, all and every such and the same Powers and Authorities, Privileges and Exemp- tions, and be liable to the same Duties and Liabilities as the Deputy Postmaster General, appointed by Her Majesty's Postmaster General for this Colony, and acting at the time of the passing of this Act, had, or was invested with, or was entitled to, or enjoyed, or was liable to, whether by Statute or otherwise.
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Rules, &c., then ex- isting.
Postmaster to keep Accounts.
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VII. The Postmaster General shall keep Accounts of all Letters and other Pa- pers received and dispatched by him, by virtue of his Office, with the Particulars of the Postage thereof, in like manner and form as the Deputy Postmaster General kept such Accounts heretofore and at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, or in such other form as Her Majesty's Postmaster General shall hereafter and from time to time direct or require; and shall keep a separate Account of Monies which, under the Regulations in that behalf for the time being in force, and his instructions in reference thereto, For Imperial Gov-shall be payable to Her Majesty's Imperial Government, or to the said Postmaster, in respect of the Postage of Letters or Papers received at, or transmitted from this Colony, and a separate Account of all Monies which shall be payable to the Government of this Colony in respect thereof; and the Accounts so to be kept in relation to the Monies payable to Her Majesty's Government, or Her Majesty's Postmaster General, shall be kept and governed in all respects according to the instructions to be issued from time to time from Her Majesty's Postmaster General, in relation thereto, and the Accounts so to be For Colonial Gov-kept in reference to the Monies payable to the Colonial Government shall be kept and governed in all respects according to the instructions to be giver. by His Excellency Local Collection the Governor and Duplicate Copies of all such Accounts respectively, shall be forward- ed and within Seven Days next after the last Day of every Month to the Auditor General of this Colony and payments shall be made of the Revenue of the said Post Office in manner provided for payment of Revenue and Fees by Public Officers. Postmaster General, Amount payable in respect of such Accounts to the Government, shall be paid by the Postmaster General into the Public Treasury, and the Amount payable in respect of such Accounts to Her Majesty's Government, or to Her Majesty's Postmaster General, in respect of Postage, shall be paid and payable in such manner and time as Her Ma jesty's Postmaster General shall from time to tine appoint.
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how to be paid.
Monics collected for
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Colonial Post Office Regulations.
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VIII. The Post Master General, his Deputies and Servants, and the Post Office Es- tablishment of this Colony shall be guided by and subject to such Rules and Regulations as shall be made in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor with the consent of the Executive Council, and a Copy of all such Rules and Regulations shall be furnished to the Postmaster General, and such of the same as relate to the Public shall be at all times exhibited openly at the General Post Office for the information of the Public pro-
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