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ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1862.

Post Office.

No. 8 of 1862.

An Ordinance to provide for the Management and Control of a Post

Office for the Colony of Hongkong.

W

[3rd May, 1862.]

HEREAS it has become necessary to provide for the establishment and regula- tion 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:-

1. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to constitute one General Post 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.

2. A fit and proper person shall be appointed to be Postmaster General in and for the said Colony

3. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his deputy or deputies, have the entire charge of the General Post Office and of all the postal duties within the said Colony, and he shall have sole power, within this Colony, of receiving from Her 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 arriving within this Colony from any part out of this Colony or transmitted from this Colony to any part out of this Colony; and no correspondence shall be delivered or transmitted from this Colony, otherwise than by or through the said General Post Office: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed 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 Ordinance, were not required by the law then in force, to be so delivered: Provided also that nothing in this Ordinance 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

Title.

Preamble.

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General Post Office to be in Victoria.

Appointment of Postmaster General.

Postmaster General sol ely authorized to receive and deliver all corres-: pondence.

Proviso as to letters arriving: by ship.

Proviso as to Imperial Acts of Parliament.