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2076 ORDINANCE No. 1 CF 1887.


Post Office.


General Post 2. There shall be one General Post Office of the Colony where cor
Office.
respondence 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.
Postmaster 3. The Postmaster General, and all other officers of the Post Office
General and
officers con at the time of the passing of this Ordinance shall be continued in their
tinued in their
offices. offices, and shall have all the powers, and privileges hereby conferred
upon the holders of their respective offices.

Appointment 4. The Governor may from time to time appoint a Postmaster
of officers in
future. General of the 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 .
Postmaster
5. The Postmaster General shall, by himself or his deputies, have
General solely
authorized to
the entire charge of the General Post Office and of all postal matters
receive and
deliver all cor within the Colony, with sole power, within the Colony , of receiving
respondence.
from all persons authorized to deliver the 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 authorised

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.
Letters
6. All correspondence which , by any Act of the Imperial Parlia
excepted
under Acts of ment, is excepted from the exclusive privilege of the Imperial Post Office,
Imperial
Parliament. shall within this Colony be excepted from the exclusive privilege of the
Postmaster General of the Colony . Consignees ' letters shall be excepted
from the exclusive privilege of the Postmaster General , but, if taken to
the Post Office , such consignees ' letters shall be subject to the same rates

of postage and general regulations as apply to other correspondence.