ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1862.
Post Office.
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.
24. In case in any respect the due management of the affairs of the Post Office Department of this Colony shall not be found to have been adequately provided for by 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 transmission 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 Governor to make such order as shall be necessary for such purpose, and such order shall be published in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
25. Wherever the word correspondence occurs in this Ordinance it shall 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.
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In cases not provided for, Governor to make order.
Interpretation.
SCHEDULE A.
I do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will not wittingly or willingly 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 chargeable with the payment of the postage thereof shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, and except such letters 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 directed, 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 otherwise 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 affirmations 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 provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths."
Declared before me this
day of
SCHEDULE B.
I, arrived from
Commander of the
do, as required by law, solemnly declare, that I have, to the best of my knowledge and belief, delivered or caused to be delivered, at the Post Office at
every letter, bag, package, or parcel of letters that were on board the said
such letters as are exempted by law.
Witness
except
Commander.
Signed by
Dated the
186
Postmaster General of
[All repealed by Ordinance No. 10 of 1876.]
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1862.
Post Office.
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.
24. In case in any respect the due management of the affairs of the Post Office Department of this Colony shall not be found to have been adequately provided for by 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 transmission of correspondence, which shall render any alteration in the management of or the charges for correspondenco necessary: it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to make such order as shall be necessary for such purpose, and such order shall be published in the Hongkong Government. Gazette.
25. Wherever the word correspondence occurs in this Ordinance it shall mean aud include letters, newspapers, books, pamphlets and other parcels and papers and documents being in or passing through the Post Office of this Colony.
523
In cases not provided for, Governor to make order.
Interpretation. clame.
I
SCHEDULE A.
do solemnly and sincerely declare that I will not wittingly -or willingly 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 chargeable with the payment of the postage thereof shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, and except such letters 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 directed, 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 otherwise 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 affirmations taken and made in various Deparments of the State to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra Judicial Oaths aud Affidavits and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths."
Declared before me this
day of
SCHEDULE B.
arrived from
Commander of the
do, as required by law, solemnly declare, that I have, to the best of my knowledge and belief, delivered or caused to be delivered, at the Post Office at
every letter, bag, package, or parcel of letters that were on board the said such letters as are exempted by law.
Witness
except
Commander.
Signed by
Dated the
186
Postmaster General of
[All repealed by Ordinance No. 10 of 1876.]
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