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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1887 . 2083


Post Office.


29. The sections of the Larceny Ordinance ( No. 7 of 1865 ) relating Receiving
stolen corre
to receiving stolen goods , that is to say, sections 75 to 82 both inclusive, spondence.
shall apply to felonies and mis lemeanours committed under this Ordinance ;
and for that purpose, the expression this Ordinance, when used in the

said sections , shall be taken to include the present Ordinance.

30. In any proceedings against any person for any offence com Allegations to
be used in
mitted against this Ordinance, in respect of any letter bag or correspond- proceedings
for offences.
ence, it shall be sufficient to allege such letter bag or correspondence to

be the property of the Postmaster General without mentioning his name ,
and in any such proceedings against any person employed by or under
the Post Office , it shall be sufficient to allege that such person was

employed by or under the Post Office, without stating further the nature
or particulars of his employment.

Penalties may
31. All pecuniary penalties for offences against this Ordinance may
be recovered
be recovered in a summary way before a Magistrate , but proceedings for in a summary
way within
the recovery of such penalties shall be commenced within one year after one year.
the offence was committed .

32. Ordinances No. 12 of 1884 and No. 11 of 1885 are hereby Repeal.
repealed , but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done or com
menced to be done thereunder.

33. This Ordinance shall take effect on a day to be proclaimed by Suspending
clause.
the Governor.


[In force from 9th May, 1887, under proclamation ofthe 7th May, 1887.]




Order made by the Governor in Council under the provisions of sections 8 and 10 of
The Post Office Ordinance , 1887, on the 4th and gazetted the 14th January, 1888.




RULES FOR LOCAL DELIVERY OF CIRCULARS , & c .

1. Circulars, dividend warrants, invitations, cards, patterns, bills, almanacs, & c.,
for addresses in Hongkong or the ports of China, in batches of not less than ten of
uniforin size and weight, may be sent to the Post Office unstamped , the postage, at
the rate of one cent each, being paid in cash or charged to the sender's account.
Special accounts may be opened with non-boxholders for the delivery of considerable
numbers of such articles.