542 ORDINANCES Nos. 2 AND 3 OF 1863 .
Post Office. Vesting of Admiralty Estates.
No. 2 of 1863 .
Title. An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1862 , intituled " An Ordi
nance to provide for the management and control of a Post Office for
the Colony of Hongkong."
[ 6th February, 1863. ]
E it enacted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong , with the advice
BR of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
Sec. 18 of No. 8 1. Section 18 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1862 , is hereby repealed .
of 1862 repealed .
Registration of 2. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to register in this Colony cor
letters.
respondence posted for transmission to any place out of the limits of this Colony in
like manner and form as the same were registered by the Postmaster before the third
day of May, 1862, and to demand and receive in respect of every letter or book packet
registered in this Colony the sum of six pence, one-half thereof to be by him retained
and accounted for to and for the use of this Colony, and the other half thereof to be by
him retained and accounted for and paid over to the Imperial Postmaster General and
all registered correspondence and the registration thereof shall be subject to all such
and the same rules and regulations as were in force respecting the same on the said
third day of May, 1862, or as shall from time to time be hereafter enacted or provided
in respect thereof by any Statute of the Imperial Parliament or by Her Majesty's
This section to be Postmaster General or by His Excellency the Governor. This section shall be read and
construed as if it
had been sec. 18 construed as if the same had originally been section eighteen of the said last mentioned
ofNo. 5 of 1862 .
Ordinance.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887. ]
No. 3 of 1863.
Title. An Ordinance for Vesting all Estates and Property occupied
by or for the Naval Service of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland in this Colony in the Lord High
Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral, of the said United Kingdom for the
time being .
[ 26th May, 1863. ]
Preamble. HEREAS divers messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments
WHER
have been at various times purchased for the use of the Naval
Service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and con
veyed to several different persons in trust for Her Majesty and Her
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