Postage (1834) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUINTO

GULIELMI IV. REGIS,

No. 5.

An Act to regulate the Postage of Letters in

in the Colony of Western Australia.

HEREAS it is expedient to provide for the Postage mid preamble.

Conveyance of Letters in this Colony;--Be it therefore

enacted by His Excellency the. Governor of Western Australia and

its Dependencies, with the Advice of the. Legislative Council, Governor or Acting Go-	that it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, or vior empowered7-P
other Officer administering the Government of the said Colony, fore : CI:P(71=7:y; nAtn:
and Posts for the receiving, carrying and delivering Letters in the and to appoint Rates of said Colony as -the Governor or Acting Governor may from time to Postage. time deem-necessary; and to settle and appoint certain Rates for the the time being, to settle and establish such and so many Post Officesails' another, as well as for the receiving and delivering of all Letters

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vemor, may appoint aGovernor, or Acting Go- which shall be brought into the said Colony by any Ship or Vessel ; Post matter and Deputy and it shall be lawful for the Governor or Acting Governor aforesaid,

ny,nominate and appoint a Post Master and Deputy Post Masters in	Post Masters in the Cola-to
Salaries and Allowances. the said Colony, with such salaries, remuneration or allowances,

respectively, as the Governor or Acting Governor may deem reason-

able and proper.

Who are to conform to IL AND be it further enacted, that every person so appointedthe orders or instructions

of the Governor. Post Master or Deputy Post Master, as aforesaid, shall observe and

follow all such Orders, Rules, Directions, and Instructions, for and

concerning the settlement of Posts within the said Colony, and the receiving, carrying, and delivering of all Letters under this Act, as

the Governor, or Acting Governor, aforesaid, shall from time to time

They, or other persons

employed who shall wil-	make and ordain : And that every such Post Master, Deputy Post
fully open, embezzle, de-	Master, or other person or persons, who shall wilfully open, embezzle,
tain, or delay any letter
or packet, shall be liable	detain or delay any Letter or Packet after the same shall have been
to same pains and penal-	delivered into any of the said Post Offices, or into the hands of any
ties as in England,	person employed for the receiving, carrying or delivering thereof, shall, for every such offence, be liable to the same pains and penal- ties as persons guilty of opening, embezzling or detaining any Letter delivered into the General Post Office in England respectively are liable to by the laws and statutes in such case anade and provided.
Appropriation of all rates

of Postage received un- III. AND be it further enacted, that all Rates of Postage and tier ibis Act. Sums received for the conveying and delivering of Letters under this

Act shall be reserved to the use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Suc- cessors, for the public uses of this Colony, and the support of the Government thereof, to be applied in such manner as by the Gover- nor or Acting Governor aforesaid, with the Advice of the Legislative Council, shall from time to time be directed,

JAMES STIRLING,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Legislative Council

this 31st day of Dec., 1834.

PETER BROWN,

Clerk to the Council,

Printed by authority of the Government, by E. Stirling Printer.