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ORDINANCE No. 12 or 1884. 1799


Post Office.


The master of every such vessel shall give all proper facilities to such officer of
the Post Office to enable him to discharge his duties and to make up such late mails,
and to leave the vessel on her departure, and any master of a vessel failing to give any
such facilities shall be liable, on conviction thereof, to a penalty not exceeding five
hundred dollars.

If there be no officer of the Post Office in attendance on board any vessel, the
master of such vessel may receive all correspondence which is brought on board to him
prepaid by stamps ; and shall deliver the same at the Post Office on arrival at his
destination.


Offences.

26. Every master of a vessel which is not a contract packet, who commits any of Penalties on
masters of
vessels.
the following offences, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty not exceeding
five hundred dollars, that is to say :

Refusal to take a letter bag delivered or tendered to him by an officer of the Post
Office for conveyance.

Refusal to sign a receipt for a letter bag delivered to him by an officer of the Post
Office for conveyance.

Neglect without reasonable excuse to deliver all correspondence to the Post Office
on his arrival in the Colony.

Refusal or wilful neglect to make, or making any untrue statement in the declara
tion hereby required of his having delivered his letters to the Post Office.

Refusal or wilful neglect, if in quarantine, to deliver all correspondence in his
possession to the person appointed to receive it.

27. Every person employed by or under the Post Office who steals, embezzles , Stealing letter
bags, forging
secretes, or destroys any correspondence shall be guilty of felony. stampsand other
felonies.
Every person who steals from or out of any correspondence any chattel, money or
valuable security, shall be guilty of felony.

Every person who steals or unlawfully takes away a letter bag, or steals or unlaw
fully takes any correspondence from or out of a letter bag, or unlawfully opens a letter
bag, shall be guilty of felony.

Every person who steals any correspondence from a letter bag, or from a Post
Office, or from an officer of the Post Office shall be guilty of felony.

Every person who forges, alters, or imitates, or assists in forging, altering, or
imitating, any postage stamp issued under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of felony.

Every person who uses, offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any forged , altered,
or imitated postage stamp as aforesaid, knowing the same to be forged, altered , or
imitated, shall be guilty of felony.