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2080 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1887 .


Post Office.


Damages for 22. Every master of a vessel who receives such gratuities or to
non-delivery
of mail. whom such gratuities have been credited in the accounts of the Post
master General shall be held to have made a contract with the Postmaster

General that, in consideration of the gratuities so paid , he will duly
deliver all letter bags and correspondence received from the Post Office
to the persons to whom the same are addressed immediately on his
arrival in port, without wilful or avoidable delay , and that if he fail in
any respect to perform his said contract he will pay to the Postmaster

General the sum of five hundred dollars as liquidated damages for the
breach of his said contract.

Persons 23. Every person or firm proposing to despatch a vessel to any
proposing to
despatch port or place out of this Colony, excepting vessels plying daily or on
vessels to give
notice to the fixed days to Macao or to places on the Canton River, shall , so soon as
Postmaster
General. he has arranged the time for the departure of such vessel , give the first
intimation of such proposed departure to the Postmaster General , and
shall, in like manner, intimate to the Postmaster General any alteration

in the day or hour of departure of the said vessel, and the Postmaster
General shall, on receiving such intimation, give notice to the public of
the day and hour for closing the mails , if any are to be made up for
transmission by such vessel .

Every alteration of the hour of departure of any vessel plying daily
or on fixed days to Macao or to places on the Canton River, shall , in
like manner, be intimated to the Postmaster General by the person
despatching such vessel .

Making up 24. The PostmasterGeneral, or any officer of the Post Office
mails on
board . authorised by him, may attend on board any vessel, and may receive all
fully prepaid correspondence which is brought on board up to the time
of departure to be transmitted by such vessel.

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 mails, and to leave the vessel on her departure.

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 fully prepaid by the postage stamps of the
Colony ; and shall deliver the same at the Post Office on arrival at his
destination .