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ORDINANCE No. 12 OF 1884. 1795


Post Office.


2. There shall be one General Post Office of the Colony where correspondence General Post
Office.
may be received from all places, and whence correspondence may be despatched to all
places, and the Post Office at the time of the passing of this Ordinance shall be such
General Post Office until the site thereof is changed by the Governor.
The Governor may establish such District Post Offices in the Colony as he
thinks fit.

Management.

3. The Postmaster General, and all other officers of the Post Office at the time Postmaster
General and
officers con
of the passing of this Ordinance shall be continued in their offices, and shall have all tinued in their
offices.
the powers and privileges hereby conferred upon the holders of their respective offices.

4. The Governor may from time to time appoint a Postmaster General of the Appointinent
of officers in
future.
Colony, and all necessary Assistant Postmasters General, Postmasters, agents , clerks ,
or servants for conducting the business of the Post Office, and may remove any officers
so appointed.

5. No person appointed after the passing of this Ordinance shall be capable of Declarations.
holding the office of Postmaster General, or Assistant Postmaster General , or Post
master, or Agent, unless he shall have first made and subscribed before a Justice of
the Peace, or one of Her Britannic Majesty's Consuls, the declaration contained in
the schedule A hereto annexed, and no person appointed after the passing of this
Ordinance shall be capable of being a clerk, servant, or officer of the Post Office,
unless he shall have first made and subscribed in like manner the declaration contained
in the schedule B hereto annexed.

6. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his deputies, have the entire Postmaster
General solely
charge of the General Post Office and of all postal matters within the Colony, with authorized to
receive and de
liver all corre
sole power, within the Colony, of receiving from all persons authorized to deliver the spondence.
same all letter bags and correspondence arriving in the Colony ; and with sole power,
within the Colony, of collecting, receiving, and delivering to all persons authorized to
receive the same all correspondence for transmission by or through the General
Post Office to places out of the Colony.
The said Postmaster General shall also have the exclusive privilege, within the
Colony, of performing all the incidental services of receiving , collecting, despatching
and delivering all correspondence arriving from , or transmitted to any place out of the
Colony ; and no letters , unless exempt by law, shall be delivered in, or transmitted
from the Colony otherwise than by or through the General Post Office.

7. All correspondence which, by any Act of the Imperial Parliament, is excepted Letters excepted
under Acts of
from the exclusive privilege of the Imperial Post Office , shall within this Colony be Imperial Parlia
ment.
excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General of the Colony.

8. The Postmaster General shall receive all postage payable in the Colony and Receipt of
postage, and
shall keep accounts of all correspondence received and despatched by him, with the accounts.

particulars of the postage thereof, in such manner and form as the Governor may, from