✨ Local Posts Proclamation
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
W. CARGILL, Superintendent.
Vol. III.] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1857. [No. 63.
LOCAL POSTS.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor William Cargill,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the “Local Posts Act, 1856,” it is among other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette thereof, to fix the rates of postage payable for the transmission by any post or postal communication, established under the authority of the said Act, of Letters, Newspapers, and other Papers and Parcels, and from time to time, by any such Proclamation, to alter, repeal, or abolish any postage so fixed as aforesaid, and to fix any other rate of postage in lieu thereof, and that all such postage from time to time to become payable by virtue of any such Proclamation shall be charged and be payable accordingly. And whereas it is necessary to fix the rate of postage payable for the transmission of certain printed books as after-mentioned; and whereas it is expedient to abolish, to the extent hereafter set forth, the postage fixed by Proclamation of the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, dated at Dunedin the Twenty-first day of January last, on Newspapers.
Now, THEREFORE, I, the Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that on and after the first day of January, 1858, there shall be charged and be payable upon all books exceeding one ounce in weight then books printed in the Province of Otago, conveyed along the whole or any part of the line by the Local Post established within the Province under the authority of the said Act the sums hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:—
On every such printed book or parcel of books not exceeding one ounce in weight...
One Penny.
On every such printed book or parcel of books exceeding one ounce in weight then the sum of One Penny for every ounce or fractional part of an ounce, according to the weight of such book or parcel of books, provided they be sent without
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1857, No 63
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🚂 Proclamation on Local Postage Rates
🚂 Transport & Communications31 December 1857
Postage rates, Books, Newspapers, Otago
- William Cargill, Superintendent of the Province of Otago