Postage amendment (1852) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRA LTA.

ANNO DECIMO QUINTO

VICTORI REGIN}E.

No. V.

An Ordinance to amend an Ordinance inti- tuled " an Ordinance to provide for the Conveyance and Postage of Letters.

wHEREAS an Ordinance was passed in the ninth year of"An Ordinance to provide for the Conveyance and Postage of Letters,the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled

No. 6; and whereas it is expedient that the privilege of sending and receiving letters free from the charge of postage, conferred by the said

15th Viet. No. 5. 1852.

recited Ordinance upon the Governor and the Members of the Execu., tive Council, should be extended to the Private Secretary of the Go- vernor, and, for this purpose, that the said Ordinance should be amended ;—Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the passing of this Ordinance, the 13th line of the 3rd clause of the said recited Ordinance shall be read and construed as if the words "his Private Secretary for the time being" had been inserted previous- ly to the passing of the said Ordinance, immediately after the word "Governor" and before the word "and," occurring in the said line of the said recited Ordinance.

CHARLES FITZGERALD,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-GRIEF.

Passed the Council the 19th

day of May, 1852. 3

A. O'GRADY LEFROY,

Clerk of the Council.

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