ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1862.
Post Office.
of the revenue of the said Post Office in manner provided for payment of revenue and fees by public officers. The amount payable in respect of such accounts to the Colonial Treasury, shall be paid by the Postmaster General into the Treasury, and the amount payable in respect of such accounts to Her Majesty's Postmaster General, in respect of postage, shall be payable and paid in such manner as Her Majesty's Postmaster General shall from time to time appoint.
8. The Postmaster General, his deputies and servants, and the Post Office establishment of this Colony shall be guided by and subject to such rules and regulations as shall be made in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor, and a copy of all such rules and regulations shall be furnished to the Postmaster General, and such of the same as relate to the public shall be at all times exhibited openly at the General Post Office for the information of the public; Provided that no such rules or regulations as shall relate to the public shall be in force until the same shall have been published in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
9. No correspondence coming from, or through or sent to the United Kingdom, or carried elsewhere, or brought here by any contract packet, shall be liable to any other rate of postage, than that charged by the Imperial Government, and the Postmaster General shall collect and receive as well all postage payable in this Colony, to Her Majesty, for the Imperial Postmaster General as for the Colonial Treasury.
10. The postage on all correspondence, posted in this Colony for transmission to any place out of the same, shall be paid by the sender on delivering the same at the Post Office in money until stamps shall be provided under the provisions of this Ordinance. Provided always that correspondence enclosed in stamped covers, or having a stamp affixed thereto (the stamp in every such case being of the value or amount in this Ordinance expressed, and specially provided for the purpose under the authority of this Ordinance) shall, if within the limitation of weight fixed by or under the authority of any Statute of the Imperial Parliament in that behalf and if the stamps have not been used before, pass by the post free, except as to such postage as the same shall or may be liable to on arrival at their places of destination, when other than the United Kingdom, under the laws of such places respectively.
11. On every letter arriving in this Colony by private ship or in a ship letter mail from any place beyond the limits of this Colony, and on every letter posted in this Colony for transmission to any place beyond the limits of the same, there shall be charged and paid to the Postmaster General for the use of this Colony, postage by weight according to the following scale, that is to say:-
Not exceeding half an ounce one rate of four pence.
Exceeding half an ounce, but not exceeding one ounce, two rates, or eight pence.
Exceeding one ounce, but not exceeding two ounces, four rates or one shilling and four pence,
Exceeding two ounces, but not exceeding three ounces, six rates or two shillings.
519
How monies collected for Colonial Treasury to be paid.
General Post Office regulations.
Correspondence by contract packet to bear Imperial postage only.
Postage prepayable in money until stamps provided.
Stamps may be used when provided.
Ship letters.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1862.
Post Office.
of the revenue of the said Post Office in manner provided for payment of revenue and fees by public officers. The amount payable in respect of such accounts to the Colonial Treasury, shall be paid by the Postmaster General into the Treasury, and the amount payable in respect of such accounts to Her Majesty's Postmaster General, in respect of postage, shall be payable and paid in such manner as Her Majesty's Postmaster General shall from time to time appoint.
8. The Postmaster General, his deputies and servants, and the Post Office establishment of this Colony shall be guided by and subject to such rules and regula- tions as shall be made in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor, and a copy of all such rules and regulations shall be furnished to the Postmaster General, and such of the same as relate to the public shall be at all times exhibited openly at the General Post Office for the information of the public; Provided that no such rules or regula- tions as shall relate to the public shall be in force until the same shall have been published in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
9. No correspondence coming from, or through or sent to the United Kingdom, or carried elsewhere, or brought here by any contract packet, shall be liable to any other rate of postage, than that charged by the Imperial Government, and the Post- master General shall collect and receive as well all postage payable in this Colony, to Her Majesty, for the Imperial Postmaster General as for the Colonial Treasury.
10. The postage on all correspondence, posted in this Colony for transmission to any place out of the same, shall be paid by the sender on delivering the same at the Post Office in money until stamps shall be provided under the provisions of this Or- dinance. Provided always that correspondence enclosed in stamped covers, or having a stamp affixed thereto (the stamp in every such case being of the value or amount in this Ordinance expressed, and specially provided for the purpose under the authority of this Ordinance) shall, if within the limitation of weight fixed by or under the authority of any Statute of the Imperial Parliament'in that behalf and if the stamps have not been used before, pass by the post free, except as to such postage as the same shall or may be liable to on arrival at their places of destination, when other than the United Kingdom, under the laws of such places respectively.
11. On every letter arriving in this Colony by private ship or in a ship letter mail from any place beyond the limits of this Colony, and on every letter posted in this Colony for transmission to any place beyond the limits of the same, there shall be charged and paid to the Postmaster General for the use of this Colony, postage by weight according to the following scale, that is to say:-
Not exceeding half an ounce one rate of four pence.
Exceeding half an ounce, but not exceeding one ounce, two rates, or eight
pence.
Exceeding one ounce, but not exceeding two ounces, four rates or one shilling and four pence,
Exceeding two ounces, but not exceeding three ounces, six rates or two shillings.
519
How monies collected for Colonial Tren- sury to be paid..
General Post Office regula-
tions.
Correspondence
by contract packet to bear Imperial postage-
only.
Postage prepay- able in money until stamps pro-- vided,
Stamps may be. used when pro- vided.
Ship letters.
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