THE FONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MAY, 1862.
ing or carrying Post Letters, and before delivery to the Person to whom the same shall be directed, or for his usc; except by express Warrant in writing under the Hand of His Excellency the Governer, or except where the Person to whom directed or who is chargeable with the payment of the Postage shall refuse to pay the same.
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Postage may be re-
XXI. When any Packet containing Patterns or other Articles being not properly mitted on Packets not Letters shall be brought to the General Post Office and shall have become liable to containing Letters, if Postage, and Evidence shall have been adduced to the satisfaction of the Postmaster sent in mistake. General that such Packets have been actually sent through the Post in mistake and con- trary to the intention of the Parties interested, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster 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 liable to a Charge or Rate of Postage, equivalent to the cost for Freight on such Packet, together with a Fine of not less than One Shilling nor exceeding Five Shillings.
Stamps.
XXII. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to cause to be provided Governor to provide at the Public Expense 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.
Office continued.
XXII. All Statutes or parts of Statutes of the Imperial Parliament which have Crimes and Punish- relation to the commission and punishment of Offences against the Post Office or the ment as to the Post Revenue thereof shall be deemed and taken to be incorporated herein, so far as they can be made applicable to the local circumstances of this Colony and to the Post Office Es- tablishment authorized by this Ordinance to be established; and all Offenders shall on conviction be liable to the punishments or penalties set forth in such Statutes. And all Penalties imposed by such Statutes respectively or by this Ordinance shall, unless otherwise directed, be recoverable before a Police Magistrate in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.
make order.
XXIV. In case in any respect the due management of the affairs of the Post Office In cases not provi- Department of this Colony shall not be found to have been adequately provided for by ded for, Governor to this Ordinance, or in case of any Convention or arrangement being entered into with the Authorities of any British Colony or Foreign State or Colony for the better transmis- sion of Correspondence, which shall render any alteration in the management of or the charges for Correspondence necessary: it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Gov- ernor to make such Order as shall be necessary for such purpose, and such Örder shall be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
XXV. Wherever the Word Correspondence occurs in this Ordinance it shall Interpretation Clause. mean and include Letters, Newspapers, Books, Pamphlets and other Parcels and Papers
and Documents being in or passing through the Post Office of this Colony.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 3rd Day of May, 1862.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
I.
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 Parties 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 directe, cannot be found, 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 an 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 Oathis."
Declared before me this
day of
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