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518 ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1862 .


Post Office.


provisions of the Imperial Acts of Parliament relating to the Imperial Post Office :
Provided also that such exclusive privilege as aforesaid shall not apply to the trans
mission of correspondence to and from places on the Canton River or to and from
Macao.

Letters excepted 4. All correspondence which in and by the Statutes of the Imperial Parliament,
under Acts of
Imperial Parlia
inent. is excepted from and out of the exclusive privilege of the Imperial Post Office, shall
within this Colony be and the same are hereby declared to be excepted from and out of
the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General.

No person to act 5. Fit and proper persons shall be appointed to be Postmasters or Deputy Post
under Post
inaster General
until after masters, clerks, agents, or servants in the managing, receiving, sorting , marking, or
declaration.
delivering of correspondence, and every Postmaster General and every such person so
appointed shall, before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe
the declaration contained in the schedule marked A hereto annexed , before a Justice of
the Peace for this Colony , who shall administer such declaration accordingly.
Postmaster Ge 6. The Postmaster General to be appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance
neral to have
powers of Post
master acting shall, within the limits of this Colony, and subject also to the provisions of this Ordi
when Ordinance
passed. nance and to the rules to be established under the authority of the same, and so long
as he shall be in the execution of his office, have and exercise and be invested with and
enjoy, all and every such and the same powers and authorities, privileges and exemp
But subject to tions, and be liable to the same duties and liabilities as the Postmaster, appointed for
the rules, &c.,
then existing. this Colony by Her Majesty's Postmaster General and acting at the time of the passing
of this Ordinance, had, or was invested with , or was entitled to , or enjoyed, or was
liable to, whether by Statute or otherwise.
Postmaster Ge 7. The Postmaster General shall keep accounts of all letters and other papers
neral to keep
accounts. received and dispatched by him, by virtue of his office , with the particulars of the
postage thereof, in like manner and form as the Postmaster kept such accounts
heretofore and at the time of the passing of this Ordinance, or in such other form as
His Excellency the Governor shall hereafter and from time to time direct or require ;
and shall keep a separate account of monies which, under the regulations in that behalf
for the time being in force, and his instructions in reference thereto, shall be payable
For Imperial to the Imperial Postmaster General or to the said Postmaster General, in respect of
Post Office.
the postage of letters or papers received at, or transmitted from this Colony, and a
separate account of all monies which shall be payable to the Treasury of this Colony in
respect thereof ; and the accounts so to be kept in relation to the monies payable to
Her Majesty's Postmaster General, shall be kept and governed in all respects according
to the instructions to be issued from time to time from Her Majesty's Postmaster
General, in relation thereto ; and the accounts so to be kept in reference to the monies
For Colonial payable to the Colonial Treasury shall be kept and governed in all respects according to
Treasury.
the instructions to be given by His Excellency the Governor, and duplicate copies of
Local collection all such accounts respectively, shall be forwarded within seven days next after the last
how to be paid .
day of every month to the Auditor General of this Colony, and payments shall be made