Postage (1851) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO DECIMO QUARTO

VICTORIA. REGINA,.

No. XVII.

An Ordinance to make provision for the Con- veyance of Mails from Port to Port within the limits of the Colony of Western Aus- tralia.

HEREAS much inconvenience and disappointment lave

Wrecently been felt in consequence of some Masters of ("bast-

ing Vessels refusing to carry Letters or Mails from port to por'1n this colony ;—Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor

14th Viet, No. 17. 1851,

That,ls wino, from of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice port to port to carry and consent of the Legislalive Council thereof, that if any master or

mails	;	person having the command of any vessel or boat about to proceed from any one port to any other port of this colony, shall (after being thereto required by any Postmaster or Port-Officer, or other person acting on behalf of the Local Government) refuse or wilfully neglect to receive on board such vessel or boat any mail, parcel, letter, or newspaper, or bag or box of letters or newspapers, or shall refuse or neglect carefully to deposit such mail, parcel, letter, bag; or box in some secure dry place on board of such boat or vessel, or to convey the same on her then intended voyage, such master or person shall,
Penalty.	on conviction for every such offence, forfeit and pay a penalty or sum not exceeding forty pounds.

9 Vic. No.6 to apply. II. AND be it enacted, that all the provisions of the Ordinance

9th Victoria, No. 6, for the conveyance and postage of letters which apply to the conveyance of letters and newspapers in vessels arriving

from and sailing to parts beyond the seas, shall be deemed and ta-

ken to apply to vessels or boats proceeding from port to port within

the limits of this colony.

'Port" defined. III. AND be it enacted, that any place on the coast within the limits of this colony at which there shall be any Postmaster or other person authorised on behalf of the Local Government to require the conveyance of a mail, shall be deemed and taken to be a port within the meaning of this Ordinance.

CHARLES FITZGERALD,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Council,

16th May, 1851. 3

A. O'GRADY LEFROY,

Acting Clerk of the Council,.

-Prioed by authority of the Government, by E. Stirling, Perth.