Post Office Act 1843 (SA)

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Ay ' Hw f i c e l h y Osoaalc OBEY Ejrguire Qoosrnar and C 0 m h - b

CAkJ of Her JfgEdy's Pmvim yf SaufA Atutralja a d its W-

a d Vb-Admipd of the	w m by and with the ad&	and a n ~ & o/ &
L;egirtalic.e C m d.

IN ACT to a~nertd an Act intituled " A n Act to regulate the Pwr

U p c e Department in South Australia."

~ustralia passed in the fifth year of Her present Majesty's reign HEREA AS by an Act of the Governor and Council of South

~tituled M An Act to regulate the Post Office Department in South ~ustralia " it is enacted inter alics that nothing herein contained shdl e taken to authorise any charge for *stage upon my letter or packet

of Sauth Anstralia and ite Dependonciea apd Vic~.Admird

ddressed to or franked by any person in Great Britain or 'Ireland

eing empowered by law to send or receive letters or packets bevond n free from pos e nor upon my letter newspaper or packet

idressed to or frao T ed by the Governor for the time being the

[embers of Council the Clerk of Council or the Governor's Private

ecretiuy and whereas it is expedient to amend the said Act in this

!spect :

TREREFOBE ENACTED BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEOBGE GREY

Governor and Commander-in-0 h id of Her Y ajesty'a

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' ofMemban of C m o d Council thereof That from and after the passiw hereof the before eXs1n@? of the same by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

recited provision of the add Act shall beaand the same is hereby repealed: Provided always that nothing herein or in the said recited

I Act contained shall be taken to authorise any charge for postage upon any letter or packet addressed to or franked by any person iu Great

a	Britain or Ireland being empowered by law to send or receive letten or packets beyond aes'free from postage nor upon any letter n e w paper or packet addressed to or franked by the Governor for the time
being.

Fenait~ On fnnking	11.	And whereas by the same Act it i s enacted that it shall be lawful
letters not oh thc pub-

lie nrtiw.	for the Governor for the time being from time to time to exempt fxom
postage as to him shall appear expedient all letters and packets (being
bona$& on the public service) which shall be addressed to or w i t t e n

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and franked by such Public Officers of the Government as he shall deem it expedient horn time to time to name for that purpose provided there be written thereon by the person sending the same the words "on public service" and that underneath those words there be subscribed by him his signature be it enacted that if any such officer shall write the said words and subscribe his signature on a+ letter or

packet not h a f 2 e relating to the public service he shall fox every

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such offence forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five pounds nor more than fifty pounds eterling to be sued for recovery and

applied in manner provided by the said recited Act. -

G. GREY,

Governor South Auetralia