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RATES OF POSTAGE.
III.-Orders drawn in the United Kingdom upon Hongkong, Shanghai and Yokohama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange at which Money Orders are being issued at the time of their presentation.
IV. Alphabetical Lists of over 3,700 Money Order-offices in the United Kingdom, shewing the counties in which they are situated, are hung up for public reference at this office, and also at Shanghai and Yokohama.
V.-Applicants for Money Orders must furnish, in full, the surname, and, at least, the initial of one Christian name, both of the remitter and the payee; if the remitter or payee be a Peer or a Bishop, his ordinary title will be sufficient, if a firm, the usual designation of such firm, such as "Baring Brothers
Baring Brothers" will suffice, but the mere term Messrs., such as "Messrs. Rivington," or the name of a Company trading as" Carron Co.," is inadmissive.
VI. The remitter on stating that the Order is to be paid only through a Bank. to have the option of giving or withdrawing the name of the payee, in such case, the Order will be crossed in the same way that Cheques are commonly crossed when they are intended to be paid through a Bank.
VII. When an Order is presented through a Bank, a receipt by any person will be sufficient, provided the Order be crossed with the name of the receiving Bank, and be presented by some person known to be in the employ of such Bank.
VIII. The signature of the payce of a Money Order to be affixed on the Order in the place provided for the purpose. If the payce be unable to write, he must sign the receipt by making his mark in the presence of a witness, who must sign his name with his address in the presence of the officer who pays the order.
IX.-Should the payee of a Money Order desire to receive payment in the country in which the Order was issued, at some other office than that in which the Order was originally drawn, the transfer will be granted, provided the Order be inclosed to the Postmaster of the office in which it was drawn. In such case a new Order will be issued, the commission chargeable upon which will be deducted from the amount of the new Order.
X.-In the event of a Money Order miscarrying or being lost, a duplicate will be granted on a written application from the payee, (containing the necessary particulars, and accompanied by an additional commission) to the office where the original Order was payable.
XI-On the receipt of a similar application, orders will be given to stop payment of a Money Order, or to renew a lapsed Order. The additional commission in the last case will be deducted from the amount of the new Order. Lapsed Orders must be presented with the application for a new Order.
XII.-But when it is desired that any error in the name of the remitter or to the remitter, or that a lapsed Order should be renewed for payment in the payee should be corrected, or that the amount of a Money Order should be repaid country in which the Order was originally drawn, application must be made to the Chief Money Order-office of such country.
This application must be accompanied by
an additional commission, unless it have reference to a lapsed Order, in which case the commission will be deducted from the amount of the new Order.
XIII.-Repayment, whether of an original, or renewed or a duplicate Order, will not be made to the remitter, until it has been ascertained that the advice has
been cancelled at the office on which the Order was originally drawn.
XIV. Payment of an Order must be obtained before the end of the sixth calender month after that in which it was drawn; for instance, if drawn in January, payment must be obtained before the end of July, otherwise the Other will become lapsed, and a new Order (for which a second commission, to be deducted from the amount of the Order, will be charged) will become necessary.
XV.-If an Order be not paid before the end of the twelfth calendar month after that in which it was drawn,-for instance, if drawn in January, and not paid before the end of the following January-all claim to the money will be forfeited, unless, under peculiar circumstances, the Post-office of the country in which the Order was
drawn think proper to allow it.
XVI. After once paying a Money Order, by whomsoever presented, the paying
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