✨ Proclamation on Postage Exemptions
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1859.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over the Colony of
New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by the "Post Office Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be law-
ful for the Governor in Council from time to
time by Proclamation to be published in the
New Zealand Gazette to fix, alter, and abolish
the rates of postage at any time payable within
the Colony, for the transmission of Letters by
Post, either between places within New Zealand,
or to or from places beyond Seas, and at what
time the same shall be paid.
And whereas, in pursuance and exercise of the
said recited power and authority, His Excellency
the Governor in Council did by a Proclamation
under his hand and the Public Seal of the Co-
lony, bearing date the tenth day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, fix
certain rates of postage and the times at which
the same respectively should be paid.
Now therefore, I, the Governor, as aforesaid,
by and with the advice and consent of the Ex-
ecutive Council of the said Colony, do hereby
in pursuance, and further exercise of the said
recited power and authority proclaim and de-
clare as follows:-
All Letters on the public service of Her Ma-
jesty's Naval and Military Forces shall be ex-
empted from the payment of postage, subject
to the following Rules,-
-
There shall be written on the cover or
outside of each of such Letters the words,
"On Her Majesty,s Service," or the letters
"O.H.M.S." -
The Senior Officer of that branch of Her
Majesty's Naval or Military Forces, on
the service of which any Letter may be
posted, present at the place from which
such Letter is despatched, shall sign his
name on the cover, or outside thereof, im-
mediately under the words "On Her Ma-
jesty's Service," or the letters "O.H.M.S.,"
and there shall be subjoined to such sig-
nature, the proper official designation of
the Officer so signing. -
Detached parties of the Royal Artillery
and Royal Engineers, not having Officers
in charge, shall, for the purpose of the pre-
sent Proclamation, be deemed to belong to
the Infantry of the Line. -
No Letter so exempted will be sent by
private ship, or any other mode of trans-
mission, which may involve an actual ex-
penditure on the part of the Colonial Go-
vernment, which would not have been made
if such Letters had not been transmitted..
But, if by reason of the transmission of any.
such Letter, any charge shall be incurred
by the Colonial Government to any other
Government, or to any Company or per-
son, such charge shall be repaid to the
Government by the person sending or
receiving the Letter chargeable.
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🚂 Proclamation regarding postage exemption for Naval and Military Forces
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- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief