THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
No. 19.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 10TH MAY, 1862.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 8 of 1862.
By His Excellency Sir HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong. HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
An Ordinance to provide for the Management and Control of a Post Office for the Colony of Hongkong.
[3rd May, 1862.] Whereas it has become necessary to provide for the establishment 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:
VOL. VIII.
Title.
Preamble.
to be in Victoria.
I. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to constitute one General Post General Post Office Office in the City of Victoria and to appoint so many Post Offices in the said City and in other Districts of the said Colony as to His Excellency shall seem proper, and the present Post Office shall be such General Post Office until the site thereof shall be changed by His Excellency,
II. A fit and proper Person shall be appointed to be Postmaster General in and for Appointment of the said Colony.
Postmaster General.
to
receive and deliver all
III. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his Deputy or Deputies, have Postmaster General the entire Charge of the General Post Office and of all the Postal Duties within the releve and deve said Colony, and he shall have sole power, within this Colony, of receiving from Her Correspondence. Majesty's Naval and Post Office Agents and from all Ship Masters and other Persons authorized to deliver the same, all Correspondence arriving in this Colony, by, from, or through Her Majesty's General Post Office, or any Colonial or Foreign Post Office, or arriving in any Ship or Vessel other than Vessels carrying by Contract Her Majesty's Mails; and the said Postmaster General shall, by himself 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 Majesty's Naval and Post Office Agents, and to all Ship Masters and to all other Persons authorized to receive the same, all Correspondence for transmission from this Colony by or through Her Ma- jesty'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 incidental Services of receiving, collecting, despatching and delivering all Letters ar- riving within this Colony from any Part out of this Colony or transmitted from this Colo- ny to any Part out of this Colony; and no Correspondence shall be delivered or trans- mitted from this Cotony, otherwise than by or through the said General Post Office: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to render necessary Proviso as to Letters the delivery to the Postmaster General by a Captain of a Ship or Vessel other than arriving by ship. those carrying Her Majesty's Mails, of any Letters, or Papers which shall arrive ad-
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