POST OFFICE.
No. 6 of 1900.
1081
Despatch and receipt of mails.
mails.
25.--(1) Every master of a vessel shall, immediately on arrival and before reporting at the Harbour Office, deliver to any person authorised by the Postmaster General to receive them all letter bags and correspondence on board, except such as are exempt by law.
(2) If such vessel is put in quarantine, the master may deliver all such letter bags and correspondence to the Health Officer or any person authorised by him.
26. The Postmaster General shall pay to every master of a vessel, not being a contract vessel, a gratuity of one cent for every letter and other article, other than a parcel, and five cents for every parcel delivered to him by the Post Office : Provided that the gratuity payable on correspondence transmitted to Canton and Macao shall be one cent only on each description of correspondence. The Postmaster General may before paying any gratuity require a receipt accounting for the due delivery at its destination of such correspondence, and may also require proof to his satisfaction that there has been no unreasonable delay on the part of the master. No gratuity shall in any case be paid on mails in transit.
[s. 27, rep. No. 32 of 1911.]
28.-(1) The powers of the Governor in Council, as defined by section 9, shall apply to the rates of gratuity to be paid to masters of vessels for the delivery of mails, either generally or in particular cases.
(2) The gratuities fixed by any order of the Governor in Council under this section shall not be less on the average than the sums otherwise required by this Ordinance to be paid.
29. Every master of a vessel shall be held to contract with the Postmaster General that, in consideration of such gratuities, he will duly deliver all letter bags and correspondence received from the Post Office to the person to whom the same are addressed immediately on his arrival in port, without wilful or avoidable delay, and that, if he fails in any respect to perform such contract, he will pay to the Postmaster General the sum of five hundred dollars as liquidated damages for the breach thereof.
POST OFFICE.
No. 6 of 1900.
1081
Despatch and receipt of mails.
mails.
25.--(1) Every master of a vessel shall, immediately on Delivery of arrival and before reporting at the Harbour Office, deliver to any person authorised by the Postmaster General to receive them all letter bags and correspondence on board, except such as are exempt by law.
(2) If such vessel is put in quarantine, the master may deliver all such letter bags and correspondence to the Health Officer or any person authorised by him.
to ship
26. The Postmaster General shall pay to every master of Gratuities a vessel, not being a contract vessel, a gratuity of one cent masters. for every letter and other article, other than a parcel, and five cents for every parcel delivered to him by the Post Office : Provided that the gratuity payable on correspondence trans- mitted to Canton and Macao shall be one cent only on each description of correspondence. The Postmaster General may before paying any gratuity require a receipt accounting for the due delivery at its destination of such correspondence, and may also require proof to his satisfaction that there has been no unreasonable delay on the part of the master. No gratuity shall in any case be paid on mails in transit.
[s. 27, rep. No. 32 of 1911.]
28.-(1) The powers of the Governor in Council, as Rates of defined by section 9, shall apply to the rates of gratuity to be gratuity. paid to masters of vessels for the delivery of mails, either generally or in particular cases.
(2) The gratuities fixed by any order of the Governor in Council under this section shall not be less on the average than the sums otherwise required by this Ordinance to be paid.
29. Every master of a vessel shall be held to contract with Damages for the Postmaster General that, in consideration of such gratui- non-delivery ties, he will duly deliver all letter bags and correspondence received from the Post Office to the person to whom the same are addressed immediately on his arrival in port, without wilful or avoidable delay, and that, if he fails in any respect to perform such contract, he will pay to the Postmaster General the sum of five hundred dollars as liquidated damages for the breach thereof.
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