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2078 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1887 .


Post Office.


thereunder, shall be decided by the Postmaster General . The Governor

may, if he thinks fit, on the application of any person interested , reverse

or modify such decision , and order accordingly.

Paid corre 12. All correspondence which arrives in this Colony fully paid
spondence to
be delivered according to the rates in force for the time being shall be delivered or
ortransmitted
without transmitted from the Post Office without further charge.
further
charge.
Seamen's and 13. All letters received or sent by sailors or soldiers of Her Majesty's
soldiers'
letters. sea or land forces shall be charged with such reduction in the rates of

postage as is allowed to them by any Act of the Imperial Parliament.

Dies, &c. for 14. The Governor may from time to time provide proper postage
postage
stamps . stamps and proper dies and other implements for denoting, by adhesive
stamps or otherwise , the rates of postage payable under this Ordinance,
or any regulation thereunder.

Opening 15. The Postmaster General may if necessary open, and if possible
letters.
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return to the sender :

Unpaid (1. ) Any correspondence upon which the prepayment of postage
letters.
is compulsory, and which cannot be sent unpaid by any
other route, and upon which the proper postage has not
been paid .
Dead letters. (2. ) Any correspondence which is returned to the General Post

Office for 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 .

Postage may 16. When any packet is delivered to the Post Office and has thereby
be remitted
on packets not become liable to postage, and evidence is adduced to the satisfaction of
containing
letters if sent the Postmaster General that such packet has been delivered to the Post
in mistake.
Office by mistake, the Postmaster General may cause such packet to be
opened in the presence of an officer in 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.
Warrants for 17. After any correspondence has been delivered to the Post Office,
opening or
returning cor no person employed by or under the Post Office shall , except in the
respondence.
• cases above mentioned, open the same or delay its transmission,LA or