518
Letters excepted under Acts of Imperial Parliament.
No person to act under Postmaster General until after declaration.
Postmaster General to have powers of Postmaster acting when Ordinance passed.
But subject to the rules, &c., then existing.
Postmaster General to keep accounts.
For Imperial Post Office.
For Colonial Treasury.
Local collection how to be paid.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1862.
Post Office.
provisions of the Imperial Acts of Parliament relating to the Imperial Post Office: Provided also that such exclusive privilege as aforesaid shall not apply to the transmission of correspondence to and from places on the Canton River or to and from Macao.
4. All correspondence which in and by the Statutes of the Imperial Parliament, is excepted from and out of the exclusive privilege of the Imperial 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.
5. Fit and proper persons shall be appointed to be Postmasters or Deputy Postmasters, clerks, agents, or servants in the managing, receiving, sorting, marking, or delivering of correspondence, and every Postmaster General and every such person so appointed shall, before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the declaration contained in the schedule marked A hereto annexed, before a Justice of the Peace for this Colony, who shall administer such declaration accordingly.
6. The Postmaster General to be appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance shall, within the limits of this Colony, and subject also to the provisions of this Ordinance 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 enjoy, all and every such and the same powers and authorities, privileges and exemptions, and be liable to the same duties and liabilities as the Postmaster, appointed for this Colony by Her Majesty's Postmaster General and acting at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, had, or was invested with, or was entitled to, or enjoyed, or was liable to, whether by Statute or otherwise.
7. The Postmaster General shall keep accounts of all letters and other papers received and dispatched by him, by virtue of his office, with the particulars of the postage thereof, in like manner and form as the Postmaster kept such accounts heretofore and at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, or in such other form as His Excellency the Governor 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, shall be payable to the Imperial Postmaster General or to the said Postmaster General, 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 Treasury of this Colony in respect thereof; and the accounts so to be kept in relation to the monies payable to 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 kept in reference to the monies payable to the Colonial Treasury shall be kept and governed in all respects according to the instructions to be given by His Excellency the Governor, and duplicate copies of all such accounts respectively, shall be forwarded within seven days next after the last day of every month to the Auditor General of this Colony, and payments shall be made
518
Letters excepted under Acts of Imperial Parlia-
ment.
No person to act under Post- master General until after declaration.
Postmaster Ge- * noral to have powers of Post- inaster acting when Ordinance passed.
But subject to the rules, &c., then existing.
Postmaster Ge- neral to keep -accounts.
For Imperial Post Office.
For Colonial . Treasury.
Local collection
how to be paid.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1862.
Post Office.
provisions of the Imperial Acts of Parliament relating to the Imperial Post Office: Provided also that such exclusive privilege as aforesaid shall not apply to the trans- mission of correspondence to and from places on the Canton River or to and from Macao.
4. All correspondence which in and by the Statutes of the Imperial Parliament, is excepted from and out of the exclusive privilege of the Imperial 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..
5. Fit and proper persons shall be appointed to be Postmasters or Deputy Post- masters, clerks, agents, or servants in the managing, receiving, sorting, marking, or delivering of correspondence, and every Postmaster General and every such person so appointed shall, before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the declaration contained in the schedule marked A hereto annexed, before a Justice of the Peace for this Colony, who shall administer such declaration accordingly.
6. The Postmaster General to be appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance shall, within the limits of this Colony, and subject also to the provisions of this Ordi- nance 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 enjoy, 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 Postmaster, appointed for this Colony by Her Majesty's Postmaster General and acting at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, had, or was invested with, or was entitled to, or enjoyed, or was liable to, whether by Statute or otherwise.
7. The Postmaster General shall keep accounts of all letters and other papers received and dispatched by him, by virtue of his office, with the particulars of the postage thereof, in like manner and form as the Postmaster kept such accounts heretofore and at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, or in such other form as His Excellency the Governor 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, shall be payable to the Imperial Postmaster General or to the said Postmaster General, 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 Treasury of this Colony in respect thereof; and the accounts so to be kept in relation to the monies payable to 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 kept in reference to the monies payable to the Colonial Treasury shall be kept and governed in all respects according to the instructions to be given by His Excellency the Governor, and duplicate copies of all such accounts respectively, shall be forwarded within seven days next after the last day of every month to the Auditor General of this Colony, and payments shall be made
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