ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1862 . 517
Post Office.
No. 8 of 1862.
An Ordinance to provide for the Management and Control of a Post Title.
Office for the Colony of Hongkong .
[ 3rd May, 1862. ]
HEREAS it has become necessary to provide for the establishment and regula Preamble.
W tion of a Post Office within the Colony of Hongkong : -Be it enacted by His
Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council
thereof, as follows :--
1. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to constitute one General General Post
Office to be in
Post Office in the City of Victoria and to appoint so many Post Offices in the said City Victoria.
and in other districts of the said Colony as to His Excellency shall seem proper, and
the present Post Office shall be such General Post Office until the site thereof shall be
changed by His Excellency.
2. A fit and proper person shall be appointed to be Postmaster General in and Appointment of
Postmaster
for the said Colony . General.
3. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his deputy or deputies, have the Postmaster
General solely
entire charge of the General Post Office and of all the postal duties within the said authorized to
receive and
deliver all corres
Colony, and he shall have sole power, within this Colony, of receiving from Her pondence.
Majesty's Naval and Post Office Agents and from all ship masters and other persons
authorized to deliver the same, all correspondence arriving in this Colony, by, from, or
through Her Majesty's General Post Office , or any Colonial or Foreign Post Office, or
arriving in any ship or vessel other than vessels carrying by contract Her Majesty's
mails ; and the said Postmaster General shall, by himself or his deputy or deputies,
have the sole and exclusive power, within this Colony, of collecting, receiving, and
delivering to all persons within this Colony and also to Her Majesty's Naval and Post
Office Agents, and to all ship masters and to all other persons authorized to receive the
same, all correspondence for transmission from this Colony by or through Her Ma
jesty's said General Post Office to parts out of this Colony ; and the said Postmaster
General shall also have the exclusive privilege within this Colony of performing all the
incidental services of receiving, collecting, despatching and delivering all letters.
arriving within this Colony from any part out of this Colony or transmitted from this
Colony to any part out of this Colony ; and no correspondence shall be delivered or
transmitted from this Colony, otherwise than by or through the said General Post
Office : Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to render Proviso as to
letters arriving
necessary the delivery to the Postmaster General by a captain of a ship or vessel other by ship.
than those carrying Her Majesty's Mails, of any letters, or papers which shall arrive
addressed to persons in this Colony which, before the passing of this Ordinance, were
not required by the law then in force, to be so delivered : Provided also that nothing Proviso as to
Imperial Acts of
in this Ordinance contained shall, in any way be construed to affect or interfere with Parliament.
the exclusive rights and privileges of Her Majesty's Postmaster General or with the
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