THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH APRIL, 1862.
General to reduce the Postage provided any such Packet be opened in the presence of an Officer of the Post Office, and is not found to contain any Letter or Manuscript to a Charge or Rate of Postage equivalent to the cost for Freight together with a Fine of not less than One Shilling nor exceeding Five Shillings.
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XX. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to cause to be provided Governor to provide at the Public Expence proper and sufficient Postage Stamps and Dies or other Im- Postage Dies and plements for expressing and denoting the Rates or Duties of Postage for this Colony, and such Dies, Stamps, and Implements shall be kept in such Custody, and such Stamps shall be made or impressed from such Dies or other Implements and sold in such Man- ner as His Excellency the Governor shall from time to time direct by writing under
his hand.
Ι.
SCHEDULE A.
do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will not wittingly or will- ingly open or delay or cause or suffer to be opened or delayed contrary to my Duty any Letter or any Thing sent by the Post, which shall come into my Hands or Custody by reason of my Employment relating to the Post Office, except by the Consent of the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be directed or by an express Warrant in writing under the Hand of the Governor for that Purpose, or excepting such Cases where the Party or Praties to whom such Letter or any Thing sent by the Post shall be directed, and who is or are charge- able with the Payment of the Postage thereof shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, and except such Let- ters or any Thing sent by the Post as shall be returned to the Post Office of this Colony for Want of true Directions or when the Party or Parties to whom the same shall be directed, cannot be found, or shall be dead and that I will not in any way embezzle any such Letter or any Thing sent by the Post as aforesaid or any Money which shall come to my Hands by Virtue of my said Employment as or for Postage or other- wise and I make this solemn Declaration by virtue of the Provisions of an Act made and passed in the 5th and 6th years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the 4th intituled "An Act to repeal and Act of the present Session of Parliament intituled, an Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and affirma- tions taken and made in various Departments of the State to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra Judicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make other Pro- visions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths."
Sworn before me this
day of
I
SCHEDULE B.
arrived from
Commander of the
do, as required by Law, solemnly declare, that I have, to the best of my knowledge and belief, delivered or caused to be delivered, at the Post Office at
every Letter, Bag, Package, or Parcel of Letters that were on board the said such Letters as are exempted by Law.
Signed by
Dated the
except
Commander.
Witness
186 Postmaster of
HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
The Surname of the Gentleman appointed to a Lieutenancy in the Gazette of 12th instant is "FRASER" and not "FRAZER" as then stated.
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