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1436 ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1876 .


Post Office.


Letters excepted 8. All correspondence which, by any Act of the Imperial Parliament, is excepted
under Acts of
Imperial Parlia from the exclusive privilege of the Imperial Post Office, shall within this Colony be,
ment.
[Ibid, sec. 4, and
See 1 Vic. c. 33, and the same is hereby declared to be, excepted from the exclusive privilege of the
sec. 2.]
Postmaster General of the Colony .

Receipt ofpost 9. The Postmaster General shall receive all postage payable in the Colony and
age and accounts.
[See Ord. 8 of
1862, sec. 7.] shall keep accounts of all correspondence received and despatched by him , with the
particulars of the postage thereof, in such manner and form as the Governor may,
from time to time, direct ; but so that the accounts of monies payable to the Imperial
Postmaster General be kept distinct from the accounts of monies payable to the Colonial
Treasury.

The Postmaster General shall keep the accounts of monies payable to the Imperial
Postmaster General in such form and shall trausmit such monies in such manner, as
the said Imperial Postmaster General may, from time to time, direct .

Governor in 10. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, by order under his hand
Council may fix
rates of postage. determine the rates of postage to be charged upon all correspondence sent by post
Ibid, secs. 24 &
13, and 34 & 35
Vic. c. 30 sec. 1.] from the General Post Office of the Colony , or received therein from places outside the
Colony, and the scale of weights according to which such rates are to be charged , and
may revoke, alter, or add to any such order, so however, that no order be inconsistent
with any instructions on the subject transmitted from the Secretary of State or the
Imperial Postmaster General.

Orders to be 11. The Governor shall publish every such order by proclamation in the Gazette ;
published by
proclamation. and every order, when so published , shall have the same effect as if it had been inserted
[Ibid.]
in this Ordinance.

The Governor
may make 12. The Governor may, subject to such instructions as aforesaid, from time to
regulations.
[Ibid.) time, make, alter, and repeal, in relation to correspondence sent by post, such regula
tions as he thinks fit for regulating the times and modes of posting and delivery, pre
payment, late fees, fines on unpaid correspondence, the registry of correspondence ,
money orders, the sale and affixing of postage stamps, the dimensions, weight, and
contents of packets, and other such similar regulations as the Governor, from time to
time, thinks necessary for the better execution of this Ordinance .

All such regulations as affect the public shall be published in the Gazette, and
shall have no effect until so published.

Decision as to
newspapers, 13. If a question arises whether any article of correspondence is a letter, or
packets, &c.
whether any publication is a newspaper or a supplement, or whether any packet is a
book packet or pattern or sample packet, within the meaning of this Ordinance, or of
any order in Council , or regulations made thereunder, the decision thereon of the
Postmaster General shall be final, save that the Governor may, if he thinks fit, on the
application of any person interested , reverse or modify the decision, and order accord
ingly.