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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
126-Postal Notes should always be forwarded in registered covers. If this precaution is not taken NO ENQUIRIES WHATEVER will be made as to the loss or alleged loss of any Note.
127.-Postal Notes issued in United Kingdom are not payable in Hongkong or China.
LOCAL POSTAL NOTES.
128.-Postal Notes of the values named below, payable within six months, are issued and paid at Hongkong, Hoihow, Canton, Swatów, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai and Hankow:-
25-cent Note.
50
11
11
$ 1 00
$ 2.00
"
Commission charged on issue
1 cent
1
2 cents 4
$ 3.00 $ 4.00 $ 5.00 $10.00
Note.
Commission charged on issue
G ceuts
8
*
10
20
А
129.—In addition to the above commission on Notes issued at Hongkong, Hoihow Canton, Swatow, Amoy and Foochow payable at Shanghai, Ningpo, or Hankow, further charge at current rates is made to cover the difference between chopped and clean dollars.
130.—The officer issuing any Postal Note shall fill in the name of the port where it is payable. The purchaser may, before parting with the Note, fill in the name of the Payee. 131.-Every person to whom a Postal Note is issued should keep a record of the number, date, and name of office of issue, to facilitate enquiry if the Note should be lost, and should register the letter in which it is forwarded.
132.-If a Postal Note be lost or destroyed, no duplicate thereof can be issued. This regulation cannot be departed from in any case whatever, for the reason that every Postal Note is payable to bearer and that no specified person can therefore satisfactorily establish the fact of his ownership in a lost Note which is not filled in, and which, if found at any time, would be payable to bearer.
133.-If a Postal Note be crossed
& Co. payment will only be made through a Banker, and if the name of a Banker is added payment will only be made through that Banker.
134.-After a Postal Note has once been paid, to whomsoever it is paid, the Government will not be liable for any further claim.
135. If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Note is cut, defaced or mutilated, payment may be refused.
136.—The officer in charge of a Post Office may delay or refuse the payment of a Note, but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster General.
137.-After the expiration of six months from the last day of the month of issue, a Postal Note will be payable only on payment of a commission equal to the amount of the original commission, but after twelve months it will become invalid and not payable. 138.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Notes.
This edition of the Postal Guide has been re-arranged in a form which it is hoped will be found more convenient for reference than that previously existing. It is requested that any difficulty experienced in using it may be notified, with a view to the improvement of future issues.
This reprint supersedes all previous issues of the Postal Guide, and is the only authorised complete summary of Postal regulations. Whilst always willing to supply information in other ways, the Department declines responsibility for errors in replies to oral applications (especially if addressed to Chinese) or notes to subordinate officers. The Chinese Shroffs at the windows are placed there to sell stamps, not to decide what is correct postage, nor to answer enquiries, for which they are not competent.
HONGKONG, January, 1898.
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