Postage amendment (1847) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

AN NO DECIMO

VICTORIA: REGINIE.

No. VI.

An Ordinance to provide for the withdrawal of Letters from the Post Office in certain cases.

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the ninth year of the reign of el,o ettlieritsteo, may&c., on :

Her present Majesty, entitled " An Ordinance to provide a e

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for the conveyance and postage of letters," whereby it was among

other things declared that no letter or packet should be returned tao eeli	ment	Resident';
the writer or sender thereof withont the consent of the person to whom the same is directed, except in the case of public letters: and

10th Viet, No. 6. 1847.

whereas it is expedient to provide for certain cases where serious in- convenience or injury would be likely to arise from the transmission of letters placed in the Post Office ;—Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Depen- dencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Coun-

cil thereof; that on the application of any party claiming to have any

letter or packet lying in any Post Office returned to him, it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, or the Colonial Se- cretary, or for the Government Resident in each district, so far as relates to any Post Office within Ids district, on evidence to his satis- faction by the solemn declaration in writing (which he is hereby authorised to administer and receive) of such party, and by opening such letter or packet, that such party bath a just and reasonable claim to such letter or packet being so returned as aforesaid, and that seri- ous inconvenience would arise from the transmission of such letter or packet by the the course of Post, to issue an authority under his hand to the Postmaster in whose charge such letter or packet shall be at such time to deliver the same to such party so applying as aforesaid, on receiving his receipt for the same.

H. AND be it enacted, that any person making any such decla- ration, knowing the same to be false in any material particular, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

FREDERICK CHIDLEY IRWIN,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,

Passed the Council

5th August, 1847.

WALICZNSHAW COWAN,

Clerk of the Councils.

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