ORDINANCE No. 10 of 1876.
Post Office.
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Making up mails on board.
26. The Postmaster General, or any officer of the Post Office authorised by him, may attend on board any vessel, after the time for closing the mail by such vessel,
[Ibid, sec. 17.] and may receive all fully prepaid correspondence which is brought on board up to the time of departure to be transmitted by such vessel.
The master of every such vessel shall give all proper facilities to such officer of the Post Office to enable him to discharge his duties and to make up such late mails, and to leave the vessel on her departure, and any master of a vessel failing to give any such facilities shall be liable, on conviction thereof, to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
If there be no officer of the Post Office in attendance on board any vessel, the master of such vessel may receive all correspondence which is brought on board to him prepaid by stamps; and shall deliver the same at the Post Office on arrival at his destination.
Offences.
27. Every master of a vessel, which is not a contract packet, who commits any of the following offences, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, that is to say:
Refusal to take a letter bag delivered or tendered to him by an officer of the Post Office for conveyance.
Refusal to sign a receipt for a letter bag delivered to him by an officer of the Post Office for conveyance.
Penalties on masters of vessels.
Neglect without reasonable excuse to deliver all correspondence to the Post Office on his arrival in the Colony. [Ibid, sec. 14.]
Refusal or wilful neglect to make or making any untrue statement in the declaration hereby required of his having delivered his letters to the Post Office. [Ibid.]
Refusal or wilful neglect, if in quarantine, to deliver all correspondence in his possession to the person appointed to receive it.
28. Every person employed by or under the Post Office, who steals, embezzles, secretes, or destroys any correspondence shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals from or out of any correspondence, any chattel, money, or valuable security, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals or unlawfully takes away a letter bag, or steals or unlawfully takes any correspondence from or out of a letter bag, or unlawfully opens a letter bag, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals any correspondence from a letter bag, or from a Post Office, or from an officer of the Post Office shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who forges, alters, or imitates, or assists in forging, altering, or imitating, any postage stamp issued under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who uses, offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any forged, altered, or imitated postage stamp as aforesaid, knowing the same to be forged, altered, or imitated, shall be guilty of felony. [Ibid]
Stealing letter bags, forging stamps, and other felonies.
ORDINANCE No. 10 or 1876.
Post Office.
1439
Making up mails.
on board.
26. The Postmaster General, or any officer of the Post Office authorised by him, may attend on board any vessel, after the time for closing the mail by such vessel, [Ibid, sec. 17.1 and may receive all fully prepaid correspondence which is brought on board up to the time of departure to be transmitted by such vessel.
The master of every such vessel shall give all proper facilities to such officer of the Post Office to enable him to discharge his duties and to make up such late mails, and to leave the vessel on her departure, and any master of a vessel failing to give. any such facilities shall be liable, on conviction thereof, to a penalty not exceeding five
hundred dollars.
If there be no officer of the Post Office in attendance, ou board any vessel, the master of such vessel may receive all correspondence which is brought on board to him prepaid by stamps; and shall deliver the same at the Post Office on arrival at his
destination.
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Offences.
27. Every master of a vessel, which is not a contract packet, who commits any of the following offences, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty not exceed- ing five hundred dollars, that is to say:
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Refusal to take a letter bag delivered or tendered to him by an officer of the
Post Office for conveyance.
Refusal to sign a receipt for a letter bag delivered to him by an officer of the
Post Office for conveyance.
Penalties onL mastera: 'of vessels.
Neglect without reasonable excuse to deliver all correspondence to the Post
Office on his arrival in the Colony.
[ībid, nec. 14.]
Refusal or wilful neglect to make or making any untrue statement in, the declaration hereby required of his having delivered his letters to the Post Office.
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Refusal or wilful neglect, if in quarantine, to deliver all correspondence in
his possession to the person appointed to receive it.
28. Every person, employed by or under the Post Office, who steals, embezzles, secretes, or destroys any correspondence shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals from or out of any correspondence, any chattel, money, or valuable security, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who steals or unlawfully takes away a letter bag, or steals or unlaw- fully takes any correspondence from or out of a letter bag, or unlawfully opens a letter bag, shall be guilty of felony.
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Every person who steals any correspondence from a letter bag, or from a Post Office, or from an officer of the Post Office shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who forges, alters, or imitates, or assists in forging, altering, or imitating, any postage stamp issued under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of felony.
Every person who uses, offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any forged, altered, or imitated postage stamp as aforesaid, knowing the same to be forged, altered, or imitated, shall be guilty of felony.
[Ibid]
Stealing letter '-- bags, forging stamps, and other felonies..
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