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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1887 . 2077


Post Office.


7. The Postmaster General shall receive all postage payable in the Receipt of
postage, and
Colony and shall keep accounts of all correspondence received and de accounts .

spatched by him, with the particulars of the postage thereof, in such
manner and form as the Governor may from time to time direct. The
accounts of monies payable to the Imperial Postmaster General shall be
kept distinct from the accounts ofmonies 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 transmit such
monies in such manner as the said Imperial Postmaster General may from
time to time direct.

8. The Governor in Council may from time to time by order deter Governor in
Council may
mine the rates of postage to be charged upon all correspondence sent by fix rates of
postage.
post from the General Post Office of the Colony, or received therein from
places outside the Colony, and may revoke , alter, or add to any such

order, provided that no such order be inconsistent with any instructions
transmitted from the Secretary of State for the Colonies or from the
Imperial Postmaster General.

9. The Governor shall publish every such order by proclamation in Orders to be
published by
the Gazette ; and every order, when so published , shall have the same proclamation.
effect as if it had been inserted in this Ordinance. All such orders in
Council in force at the time of passing of this Ordinance are hereby con

tinued in force until duly revoked or altered by the Governor in Council.

10. The Governor may, subject to such instructions as aforesaid , The Governor
from time to time make , alter , and repeal , in relation to correspondence may ntion
regulations.
sent by post, such regulations as he thinks fit for regulating times and
modes of posting and delivery, prepayment , late fees , fines on unpaid

correspondence , the registry of correspondence, money orders , the sale
and affixing of postage stamps , the dimensions , weights , 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, or in the postal guide published by the Postmaster General , and
shall have no effect until so published .

11. Any question whether an article of correspondence is a letter, Decision as to
newspapers,
or whether any publication is a newspaper or a supplement, or whether packets, &c.
any packet is a book packet or pattern or sample packet within the mean
ing of this Ordinance, or of any order in Council or regulations made