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Masters of ships to accept postal packets or mail bags for conveyance.
(4) If the owner or charterer is not in the Colony the obligation to give notice shall lie on his agents.
(5) Reasonable notice in writing shall be given to the Postmaster General of every alteration of the hour of departure of any ship plying daily or on fixed days to Macao or to any place on the Canton River or West River. The obligation to give such notice shall lie on the person on whom it would have lain if the ship had not been within the exception specified in subsection (1).
(6) In general a notice shall not be deemed to be reasonable for the purposes of this section unless it is given in time to enable the Postmaster General to inform the public by notice in the public press of the day and hour for closing the mails by the ship in question.
18. Every master of a ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) about to depart from the Colony to any place outside the Colony shall receive on board any postal packets or mail bags tendered to him by any officer of the Post Office for conveyance and shall give a receipt therefor in such form as the Postmaster General prescribes.
8 Edw. 7, c. 48, s. 26.
Gratuities to masters of ships for conveyance of postal packets.
8 Edw. 7, c. 48, s. 31.
19. (1) It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to pay to the masters of ships, not being Government or contract ships, for the conveyance of postal packets, gratuities at such rates as may be prescribed in any regulations made under this Ordinance.
(2) Before payment is made the Postmaster General may require the master of any ship by which any postal packets have been conveyed to produce a certificate from the post office of destination that such postal packets have been duly received from him.
(3) No gratuity shall be payable—
(a) unless application be made for payment within twelve months of the receipt by the master of the ship of the postal packets in respect of which the gratuity is claimed; or
(b) if there has been unreasonable delay on the part of the master in delivering the postal packets at the post office of destination; or
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875
CAP. 98]
[s. 17 cont.]
Masters of
ships to
accept postal
packets or
Post Office.
(4) If the owner or charterer is not in the Colony the obligation to give notice shall lie on his agents.
(5) Reasonable notice in writing shall be given to the Postmaster General of every alteration of the hour of depar- ture of any ship plying daily or on fixed days to Macao or to any place on the Canton River or West River. The obligation to give such notice shall lie on the person on whom it would have lain if the ship had not been within the exception specified in subsection (1).
(6) In general a notice shall not be deemed to be reasonable for the purposes of this section unless it is given in time to enable the Postmaster General to inform the public by notice in the public press of the day and hour for closing the mails by the ship in question.
18. Every master of a ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) about to depart from the Colony to
mail bags for any place outside the Colony shall receive on board any
conveyance.
8 Edw. 7,
c. 48, 8. 26.
Gratuities
to masters of ships for conveyance of postal packets.
8 Edw. 7,
c. 48, s. 31.
postal packets or mail bags tendered to him by any officer of the Post Office for conveyance and shall give a receipt therefor in such form as the Postmaster General prescribes.
19. (1) It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to pay to the masters of ships, not being Government or contract ships, for the conveyance of postal packets, gratuities at such rates as may be prescribed in any regulations made under this Ordinance.
(2) Before payment is made the Postmaster General may require the master of any ship by which any postal packets. have been conveyed to produce a certificate from the post office of destination that such postal packets have been duly received from him.
(3) No gratuity shall be payable--
(a) unless application be made for payment within twelve months of the receipt by the master of the ship of the postal packets in respect of which the gratuity is claimed; or
(b) if there has been unreasonable delay on the part of the master in delivering the postal packets at the post office of destination; or
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