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ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1876. 1437


Post Office.


14. All correspondence which arrives in this Colony fully paid according to the Paid corres
pondence to be
delivered or
rates in force for the time being shall be delivered or transmitted from the Post Office transmitted
without delay.
without delay and without further charge. [Ibid, sec. 9.]
All correspondence which is delivered to the Post Office with the proper postage
paid thereon, shall be transmitted from the Post Office without delay.

15. All letters received or sent by sailors or soldiers of Her Majesty's sea or land Seamen's and
soldiers' letters.
forces shall be charged with such reduction in the rates of postage, as is allowed to [Ibid, sec. 13.]

them by any Act of the Imperial Parliament.
16. The Governor may, from time to time, provide proper postage stamps and Dies, & c. for
postage stamps.
proper dies and other implements for denoting, by adhesive stamps or otherwise , the [Ibid , sec. 22.j

rates of postage payable under this Ordinance, or any regulation thereunder.

17. The Postmaster General may, if necessary, open and, if possible, return to Opening letters.
Ibid, sec. 19.
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the sender :
(1.) Any correspondence upon which the prepayment of postage is compul Unpaid letters.
sory, and which cannot be sent unpaid by any other route, and upon
which the proper postage has not been paid ;
(2. ) Any correspondence which is returned to the General Post Office for Dead letters.

want of a proper address, or from inability to find the person to whom
it is addressed, and which remains unclaimed for ten days after being
advertised in the Gazette.

18. When any packet is delivered to the Post Office and has thereby become Postage may be
remitted on
liable to postage, and evidence is adduced to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General packets not
containing
letters, it sent
that such packet has been delivered to the Post Office by mistake, the Postmaster in mistake.
[Ibid, sec. 21.]
General may cause such packet to be opened in the presence of an officer of the Post
Office, and may return the same without charge to the person interested ; unless
such packet is found to contain any letter or manuscript liable to postage ; in
which case the Postmaster General shall retain the packet until he is paid the full
rate of postage chargeable upon such letter or manuscript.

19. After any correspondence has been delivered to the Post Office, no person Warrants for
opening or
employed by or under the Post Office shall, except in the cases above mentioned, open returning cor
respondence.
[Ibid, sec. 20.)
the same, or return the same to any person, or procure or suffer the same to be opened
or returned, unless he is authorised by express warrant in writing under the hand of
the Governor, or the Brttish Consul at the port.
The Governor, or the British Consul at the port, may, at his discretion , grant
such warrants for opening or returning any specified letter or other article of
corresponden
ce .

Despatch and receipt of mails.
20. Every master of a vessel, shall , immediately on arrival, and before reporting Delivery ofmails.
Ibid, sec. 14.]
at the Harbour Office, deliver to the Post Office all letter bags and correspondence on

board, except such as are exempt by law, and shall make the declaration contained in
the schedule C hereto annexed, before an officer of the Post Office.